Zhang Baocheng was seized with three other Beijing-based activists, Ma Xinli (马新利), Yuan Dong (袁冬), and Hou Xin (侯欣), in March 2013 after holding a demonstration in Beijing’s Xidan shopping district where they unfurled a banner calling on officials to publically disclose their assets.
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Beijing police seized Ilham Tohti from his home in January 2014. He was arrested in February on a charge of “splittism” after Xinjiang authorities had held him incommunicado for weeks. In September, Ilham Tohti was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment, in a case rife with human rights and due (read more…)
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The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders & a Coalition of NGOs – Report Submitted to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for its Review at the 52nd Session of the Second Report by the People’s Republic of China on Its Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, (read more…)
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Appendix 1 to “CHRD & Coalition NGOs Report Submitted to CESCR”: Discriminatory Population Policies Lead to Unequal Protection of Socio-Economic Rights (Summary in English, followed by full text in Chinese) From The Center for Equal Opportunity I. Population and family planning law restricts reproduction rights The Third Plenum of the (read more…)
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Appendix 2 to “CHRD & Coalition NGOs Report Submitted to CESCR”: End Discriminatory Household Registration System (Hukou) (Summary in English, followed by full text in Chinese) From Beijing Yirenping Center China’s system of national household registration (or hukou system), a central element of the government’s social management, inherently discriminates against (read more…)
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Appendix 3 to “CHRD & Coalition NGOs Report Submitted to CESCR”: Violence in Forced Eviction & Violation of Rights to Adequate Housing (Summary in English, followed by full text in Chinese) From Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch Despite Chinese government claims that forced home evictions and violent demolitions are declining, (read more…)
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Appendix 4 to “CHRD & Coalition NGOs Report Submitted to CESCR”: Chinese Workers Need Independent Trade Unions (Summary in English, followed by full text in Chinese) From Civil & Political Rights Monitor Almost a decade has passed since the Committee recommended the Chinese government “amend the Trade Union Law to (read more…)
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Appendix 5 to “CHRD & Coalition NGOs Report Submitted to CESCR”: The Situation of Freedom of Association in China (Summary in English, followed by excerpts in Chinese) From The Rights Defense Network Since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, new features have (read more…)
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Prominent human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强) has been formally arrested after more than a month in detention, charged on June 13 with “creating a disturbance” and “illegally obtaining personal information.” A notice issued by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau said that “police are conducting further investigation of other (read more…)
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Hunan police seized rural activist Zhao Fengsheng (赵枫生) in late 2013 from his home and put him under criminal detention on a charge of “subversion of state power,” confiscating his computer and other materials without a warrant. In January 2014, local authorities formally arrested him for “using dangerous methods to (read more…)
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Imprisoned Guizhou dissident Chen Xi (陈西) is suffering from an untreated and serious intestinal illness and has been denied medical parole since he began serving his current 10-year sentence. His wife fears his life may be in danger if authorities do not provide him adequate medical care. In addition, Jiangxi (read more…)
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Liu Ping, a prominent Jiangxi-based activist, was detained in April 2013 as part of a nationwide crackdown on freedom of assembly, association, and expression that began in March of that year. Liu was initially arrested for “inciting subversion of state power,” but local authorities later charged her with three other (read more…)
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