Peng Lanlan, a leader of the campaign for civil society participation in China’s Universal Period Review and disclosure of China’s implementation of the government’s “National Human Rights Action Plan,” was detained in August 2012 on suspicion of “obstructing official business” and only released after nearly one year. From Hunan, Peng (read more…)
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Originally published by The Wall Street Journal on June 3, 2014 A quarter-century after Chinese leaders sent the military to crush student protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, one activist’s short career shows how the events of 1989 inform the Chinese authorities’ iron-fisted approach to dissent. As Josh Chin reports: After Chinese (read more…)
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Originally published by Tibetan Review. net on March 5, 2014 (TibetanReview.net, Mar05, 2014) – China’s fifth generation leadership which took government power under President Xi Jinping in March last year was responsible for the harshest suppression of civil society in over a decade, reported US-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on August 1, 2013 Chinese citizens who take the anti-corruption campaign of President Xi Jinping to heart by blowing the whistle on graft are likely to pay a high personal price, according to analysts. President Xi Jinping has warned that the ruling Chinese Communist Party must (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on March3, 2014 The number of arrests and disappearances of government critics tripled in a “nightmarish” first year of Xi Jinping’s presidency, an overseas rights group said in an annual report on Monday. The Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) documented more than 220 criminal detentions (read more…)
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Originally published by Epoch Times on November 4, 2013 Anti-graft activist Sun Desheng, arrested in Guangzhou in August, has twice been denied visitation by his lawyer, according to a recent interview. Sun Desheng was formally charged with “gathering a crowd to disrupt order of a public place” on Oct. 16, after (read more…)
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CHRD has been able to verify that, in May and June, Beijing police swept up more than 30 petitioners who had joined the drive calling for top Chinese officials to disclose their wealth while also appealing for the release of other detained anti-corruption activists. Most of the petitioners were freed (read more…)
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(TibetanReview.net, Jul21, 2013) In a renewed crackdown on civil society and human rights activists, China recently detained a leading anti-corruption activist and also shut down a prominent non-government think-tank in a sudden raid. “Dozens of municipal civil affairs bureau officials and police searched the offices of transition Institute on Social (read more…)
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Chinese police have detained a lawyer who sought to visit a prominent activist taken into custody this week, a Beijing-based dissident and overseas rights groups said Friday
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Police in Jiangsu Province have criminally detained five activists–and 11 others have disappeared–following the group’s discovery of an illegal detention cell (a “black jail”) and after they had broken in and rescued five people unlawfully detained there. One activist informed his lawyer that he was tortured to confess to his (read more…)
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States on Thursday called on China to release a human rights lawyer who has campaigned against government corruption, saying it appeared he was being penalized for his activism.
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Chinese Human Rights Defenders has an update on the arrest of citizens and activists in China. The latest detainee is prominent activist Xu Zhiyong, who is considered a moderate reformer. 25 individuals have been confirmed criminally detained since February for publicly appealing for an end to official corruption and for (read more…)
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