Produced by CHRD, this gallery of images, cases, and statistics is being released alongside CHRD’s newest report—“‘Flowers of the Country’: Mistreated and Abused,” which analyzes the record of the Chinese government in protecting the rights of children in the country. The gallery presents information on how authorities have handled selected (read more…)
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Yuan Xiaohua was detained in Chibi City, Hubei with fellow activists Yuan Fengchu (袁奉初) and Huang Wenxun (黄文勋) in late May 2013 while on an “advocacy tour” that was intended to encourage civic activism and promote democracy and rule of law. Initially detained on “unlawful assembly,” Yuan’s charges were then (read more…)
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Originally published by New York Times on November 14, 2013 China has won a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council for three years starting in January 2014, one of 14 countries chosen to join the 47-member council on Tuesday, the United Nations said. It was selected in a “single, secret (read more…)
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Submission to: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Allegation Letter on behalf of YANG Mingyu (aka YANG Lin), citizen of the People’s Republic of China Alleging Arbitrary Detention & (read more…)
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Originally published by The Huffington Post on June 10, 2014 It’s easy to think Chinese political art stops at Ai Weiwei, the embattled provocateur who is arguably the art world’s most famous living figure. In fact, a small circle of Chinese artists routinely court danger with their work, not to (read more…)
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Yuan Fengchu (aka Yuan Bing 袁兵) was detained in Chibi City in Hubei Province with fellow activists Yuan Xiaohua (袁小华) and Huang Wenxun (黄文勋) in late May 2013 while on an “advocacy tour” that was intended to encourage civic activism and promote democracy and rule of law. He was denied (read more…)
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Submission to: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Allegation Letter on behalf of LIU Jiacai, citizen of the People’s Republic of China Alleging Arbitrary Detention & Reprisal Against a (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on November 14, 2013 Six months after a new health law took effect, Chinese psychiatric institutions are continuing to commit petitioners and rights activists to hospitals for “mental illness,” a rights group said on Thursday. While some psychiatrists are refusing to admit “patients” who (read more…)
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Submission to: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Allegation Letter on behalf of LI Huaping, citizen of the People’s Republic of China Alleging Arbitrary Detention & Reprisal Against (read more…)
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Originally published by The Wall Street Journal on June 6, 2014 HONG KONG—Chinese authorities released a few of the dozens of activists and critics detained in the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the bloody 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests. But human-rights advocates say the continued detention of others (read more…)
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人权捍卫者 (CHRD)对近日发生在黑龙江的多名律师及他们的声援者遭到来自警察和暴徒的暴力侵害感到震惊。这是又一起维权律师因捍卫被代理人的权利而遭到报复性攻击的恶性事件。3月21日，黑龙江省建三江市的警察关押了四名代理遭到非法羁押的法轮功学员的律师：张俊杰、江天勇、唐吉田和王成。随后，警察又抓了赶来呼吁要求释放四名律师的其他律师和公民。前后共有至少23人被行政拘留。截至目前，仍有15位公民被关押。CHRD强烈要求中国政府调查这一系列事件件中所涉及的暴力侵害、任意羁押、和对这些律师和公民实施的恐吓威胁，并追究相关人员的刑事责任。
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Chinese authorities have criminally detained two more activists involved in peaceful assembly while rounding up hundreds of microbloggers, as part of the government’s assault on “Western ideals” such as rule of law, a free press, and other officially disparaged “universal values.” Last week, police in Anhui Province criminally detained Zhou (read more…)
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