Since June 18, group of more than 100 people have been staging sit-in in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask the government to participate in the drafting of the Annual Report on Human Rights be presented in October at the UN. For now, the police are just (read more…)
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The Congressional-Executive Commission on China is to be heartily commended for bringing muchneeded attention to the extremely important issue of today’s intensified, globalized harassment of human rights activists working to bring about the rule of law and human rights in China.
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Riot police in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan on Tuesday raided the hotel rooms of four rights lawyers who arrived to defend a dissident writer and escorted them back to the provincial capital.
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Submission to: Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur on violence against women Letter on behalf of Zhu Guiqin, citizen of the People’s Republic of China Alleging Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Arbitrary (read more…)
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Kalsang Dhondup, Jigme Thabkey, and Lobsang were sentenced to six years, five years, and four years of imprisonment, respectively, in March 2013, on charges of “inciting splittism.” The verdict was handed down four months after a self-immolation protest near a monastery in Donghai Prefecture in Qinghai Province. The victim of (read more…)
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Since June 18, a growing number of activists have staged a sit-in outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) office in Beijing, asking to meet with officials and awaiting a government reply to their requests to participate in drafting China’s national human rights report, which the Chinese government will submit (read more…)
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Forty-five-year-old officer Shi Zongwei from central China’s Henan Province publicly announced his withdrawal from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in response to being removed from his post on June 17. His dismissal was reportedly in part because of his participation in local dinner parties for bloggers, a new form of (read more…)
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After a buildup of frustration at a lack of pensions and dissatisfying petition results, an unknown number of film projectionists, who worked for decades to assist in the screening of pro-Party propaganda films, have said they plan to renounce their membership in the Chinese Communist Party. Over 8,000 film projectionists, (read more…)
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Five activists have been criminally detained after being seized during an anti-corruption “road trip” whose aim has been to call for the release of Beijing activists arrested for seeking disclosure of Chinese officials’ assets. On May 25, Huang Wenxun (黄文勋) and four other activists were seized in Hubei Province and (read more…)
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Photographer and documentary filmmaker Du Bin (杜斌) has been held incommunicado since Beijing police seized him at his home on May 31, and is reportedly facing a charge of “illegal publishing.” Du’s detention may well be reprisal for his recent documentary on abuses in the Masanjia Women’s Re-education through Labor (read more…)
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Chinese police have blocked access to a cemetery for people killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests on the 24th anniversary of the deaths. More than a dozen security officials were stationed outside the stone gate at the Wanan graveyard in western Beijing, which victims’ families visit each year.
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A candlelight vigil is being held in Hong Kong on the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre as Chinese police blocked a cemetery for the victims.
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