China has arrested a leading human rights lawyer and citizens’ rights advocate, in what appears to be part of a crackdown on the so-called “New Citizens’ Movement,” rights groups and supporters said on Wednesday.
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BEIJING: Chinese police have detained a human rights lawyer who called for the release of activists arrested for demanding that government officials disclose their assets, a lawyer said Wednesday.
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Police in Beijing have detained leading anti-graft campaigner Xu Zhiyong on charges of disrupting public order in a widening crackdown on activists who have called on government leaders to declare their assets, his lawyer and a rights group said on Wednesday.
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(Geneva – 5 July 2013) – In a joint letter, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) requested the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council to urgently address alleged reprisals against human rights defenders in China.
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WASHINGTON—The Congressional-Executive Commission on China heard testimony June 25 on the impact of cyber-attacks and espionage on American Intellectual Property (IP) and learned that over $300 billion each year are lost as a result. The majority of the theft emanates from China, concluded the Commission on the Theft of American (read more…)
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The crackdown on peaceful assembly and free expression has taken an even more disturbing turn with the detention of Beijing professor and activist Xu Zhiyong (许志永), and the subsequent seizure and beating of his lawyer, Liu Weiguo (刘卫国). Taken into custody on July 16, Xu has been charged with “gathering (read more…)
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Since late March of 2013, Chinese police have taken into custody activists, lawyers, and other citizens in a crackdown triggered by an advocacy campaign waged against official corruption and other politically sensitive issues. As of July 18, 2013, a total of 26 individuals tied to the drive are known to (read more…)
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Xu Zhiyong, a leading activist pushing for constitutional democracy and rule-of-law reform, was criminally detained on suspicion of “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order” by Beijing police on July 16. With Xu’s detention and those of two other activists on July 12 in Beijing, China’s newest crackdown on freedom (read more…)
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On July 1, CHRD sent a letter alleging arbitrary detention and torture on behalf of Xing Shiku (邢世库) of Heilongjiang Province, a petitioner who has been forcibly held for over six years in a psychiatric hospital in Harbin City. Xing was seized in early 2007 in Beijing and taken back (read more…)
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The trial of three activists from Jiangxi Province is scheduled to open on July 18, the first cases to be heard of those detained in the crackdown on anti-corruption campaigners. Liu Ping (刘萍), Li Sihua (李思华), and Wei Zhongping (魏忠平) were formally arrested on June 4 on charges of “illegal (read more…)
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Ni Yulan (倪玉兰), a housing rights activist imprisoned in Beijing, is suffering from deteriorating illnesses, and authorities this spring rejected a request for her to be released on medical grounds. In mid-June, Ni’s daughter visited her at Beijing Women’s Prison and found that Ni’s thyroid tumor, which was detected last (read more…)
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On July 1, Beijing public security forces swept up and detained a large number of activists who had been taking part in a sit-in in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) office, as they sought a role in participating in the drafting of the country’s national human rights (read more…)
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