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[CHRB] Tiananmen Anniversary Crackdown: Detainees Deprived of Medicine, More Taken Into Custody (5/9-15, 2014)

May 15, 2014 Comments Off

Two participants in a June Fourth commemorative seminar being detained in Beijing are not getting proper medical care, according to lawyers who visited them on May 8. Human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强) is not receiving “ideal” treatment for his diabetes, while retired scholar Xu Youyu (徐友渔) has grown very (read more…)

[CHRB] Missing Activist Cao Shunli Reportedly Detained on Order of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (9/26-10/2, 2013)

October 3, 2013 Comments Off

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) reportedly ordered national security officers to prevent activist Cao Shunli (曹顺利) from leaving China to attend a training in Geneva on UN human rights mechanisms and then criminally detain her. Last November, the MFA had refused Cao and others’ request for disclosure related to (read more…)

[CHRB] Labor Camp Victims Jailed for Seeking Justice; Accused “Illegal Demonstrator” Testifies to Torture in Court Trial (June 28 – July 3, 2014)

June 30, 2013 Comments Off

Eight women once held at the notorious Masanjia Women’s Re-education through Labor camp in Liaoning Province were sentenced in mid-June to prison terms ranging from one year to 18 months in retaliation for seeking remedies for abuses they suffered. Ten more individuals have been formally arrested in the crackdown tied (read more…)

Chinese Government Must Stop Intimidating Citizens Seeking Truth About June 4, 1989

May 6, 2014 Comments Off

CHRD is alarmed by reports that Beijing police have summoned intellectuals and family members of Tiananmen victims after they organized or attended a seminar on May 3 about June Fourth. It is unusual that, with still one month to go before the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, Chinese authorities have (read more…)

Video:Above the Ghosts’ Heads: The Women of Masanjia Labor Camp (Edited version)

October 2, 2013 Comments Off

“Above the Ghosts’ Heads: The Women of Masanjia Labor Camp” is directed by Du Bin, a contract photographer for the New York Times. In this film, Liu Hua, a female petitioner and survivor of Masanjia Women’s Labor Camp, describes the torture she and other women suffered there. Read Introduction to the film: http://zengjinyan.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/short-introduction-of-juvenile-laborers-confined-in-dabao-and-above-ghosts-heads/

[CHRB] Crackdown Underway for Commemorating 25th June Fourth (5/2-8, 2014)

May 9, 2014 Comments Off

Five dissidents and activists have been criminally detained after taking part in a seminar commemorating June Fourth held on May 3 in Beijing, while a veteran journalist who supported the 1989 pro-democracy protests also has gone under criminal detention. In Hunan Province, police also gave five-day administrative detentions to three (read more…)

Gu Yimin (顾义民)

December 1, 2013 Comments Off

Gu Yimin, a Jiangsu-based activist, was seized at his workplace on June 1, 2013, days before the June Fourth anniversary, which he had hoped to commemorate with a public gathering. His detention came shortly after he refused to withdraw his application for the event and also posted photos online of (read more…)

How Big Is China’s Hidden Economy?

September 30, 2013 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on September 26, 2013 China’s hidden household income—otherwise known as its “gray economy”—has topped 6.2 trillion yuan (U.S.$1 trillion) or about 12 percent of the world’s most populous nation’s economic output, a new report says, indicating a widening wealth gap fueled by corruption. The state-backed China Reform (read more…)

Jiangxi Child Abuse Victims’ Parents in Bid For Compensation

September 30, 2013 Comments Off

Originally published byRadio Free Asia on September 25, 2013 The parents of seven schoolgirls abused by a teacher in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi have called for a meeting with the Ministry of Education to discuss compensation. Speaking on a trip to petition the ministry in Beijing, one of the parents (read more…)

Cao Shunli (曹顺利) Nominated for Martin Ennals Award 2014

April 23, 2014 Comments Off

Cao Shunli (曹顺利) Selected as One of Three Final Nominees for the Martin Ennals Award 2014. This award is selected by the International Human Rights Community (See Jury Below) and given to Human Rights Defenders who have shown deep commitment and face great personal risk. The aim of the award (read more…)

The Party Line

December 1, 2013 Comments Off

China’s Communist party leadership concluded an important agenda-setting meeting in Beijing on November 12. At this point much remains unclear about the decisions made at the Third Plenum of the 18th Communist Party Central Committee conclave, including changes to the One China policy, market reforms, and the abolition of the (read more…)

China: Activist ‘Disappeared’ Ahead of UN Rights Review

September 30, 2013 Comments Off

Originally published by Human Rights Watch on September 24, 2013 (New York) – The Chinese government should immediately release Cao Shunli, a Beijing-based activist who has been forcibly disappeared since September 14, 2013, Human Rights Watch said today. She has not been heard from since she was questioned and barred from boarding a flight to Geneva (read more…)