Originally published by EPOCH TIMES on August 21, 2013 When two lawyers, Cheng Hai from Beijing and Tang Tianhao from Chongqing, went to the Dalian Detention Center on Aug. 15 to meet with their clients, Falun Gong practitioners that the local authorities are attempting to prosecute on dubious legal grounds, police said (read more…)
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Originally published by New York Times on March 28, 2014 Updated, 5:40 a.m.ET | A lawyer for Cao Shunli, a human rights activist who died in detention on March 14, said her family wants an independent autopsy by pathologists from outside China, saying they do not trust local pathologists or the (read more…)
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Chinese authorities have detained Yang Maodong, a leading member of the country’s loose New Citizens campaign that promotes democratic rights, his friend and an international human rights advocacy group said Saturday.
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Chinese authorities on Thursday released a top rights lawyer but continued to keep three others in a detention center after they tried to campaign for the release of an inmate from a “black jail” in northeastern China, activists said.
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Originally published by Agence France-Presse on November 8, 2013 The official mouthpiece of China’s ruling Communist Party on Friday firmly rejected Western-style political reforms as reports emerged of tightened security a day before a major party meeting. The party “must uphold its leadership… in the face of some people in society (read more…)
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BEIJING (AFP) – Chinese police have detained a prominent human rights activist, signalling the continuation of a recent crackdown on dissent, an advocacy group said on Saturday.
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Tibetan political prisoner Goshul Lobsang died on March 19 in Gansu Province following torture that he suffered in prison, about five months after being released on medical parole. Reportedly, Lobsang, 43, was brutally tortured while detained, including being shackled and beaten. Also, four human rights lawyers were seized on March (read more…)
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The wife of a recently detained human rights activist issued an open letter to President Xi Jinping calling for the release of her husband and the implementation of the constitution.
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In what one Western diplomat called a “very unusual”development, the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva has postponed the adoption of China’s human rights report amid protests over the death in custody of a rights activist in Beijing and reports of delaying tactics by China.
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China’s first Mental Health Law took effect on May 1, 2013 with the aim to regulate the mental health industry. One of the most significant provisions in the law is that psychiatric commitment must be voluntary, thus only a certified psychiatrist would have the authority to commit a person suffering (read more…)
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A Chinese human rights group and a friend say authorities have detained Guo Feixiong, a leader of the country’s loose New Citizens campaign to promote democratic rights.
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CHRD has rebutted declarations made by a Chinese government delegation at the 25th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva during a debate on March 18 involving deceased activist Cao Shunli (曹顺利). CHRD maintains that the government chose to neglect key facts, namely: authorities did not send Cao (read more…)
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