Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) hereby respectfully submits an update to an urgent appeal in the case of democracy activist Mr. XIE Fulin (谢福林), a citizen of the People’s Republic of China, who was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment on March 26, 2010, for “larceny.” (See CHRD’s prior submission with (read more…)
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To: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) hereby (read more…)
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Recent reports have surfaced about torture and other mistreatment suffered by Chinese in different forms of custody. Wang Hanfei (王寒非), the jailed editor of the Hong Kong-based journal “China Special Report,” has been seriously injured from beatings—with one result being an hearing impairment—and is being forced to work very long (read more…)
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BEIJING: A new law has taken effect prohibiting Chinese from being committed to mental hospitals without their consent in an attempt to prevent “forced detentions”, state-run media said Thursday. Read more: China bans forced mental hospital detentions: media – Latest – New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/latest/china-bans-forced-mental-hospital-detentions-media-1.269610#ixzz2TvdVcFMH
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China’s first-ever mental health law came into effect on May 1. Now, mentally ill patients need to give consent before they’re institutionalized. The law was designed to better protect the rights of patients, but analysts say loopholes exist within the new law, and that abuse of the mental health system (read more…)
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Eight activists have been detained in the past few weeks for calling on over 200 high-level officials in the Communist Party to make public details of their assets, alongside new leader Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign.
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LINYI, Shandong, China,—In apparent retaliation for the testimony of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng at a Congressional hearing two weeks ago, authorities in his home province of Shandong have exacted fierce retaliation against two of his brothers and a sister-in-law.
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Do the names Zhou Decai, Cao Haibo, Chen Wei, Chen Xi or Cui Fufang ring a bell to you? They are all prisoners of conscience in China. The Chinese Human Right Defenders (CHRD) are doing all they can to make the stories of prisoners of consciousness heard.
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Beijing (CNN) — Chinese authorities have detained at least a half-dozen activists this month, human rights groups said, in what appears to be a crackdown targeting a campaign to publicize the financial assets of top government officials.
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As the new administration of President Xi Jinping vows to fight for a cleaner and more transparent government, Chinese authorities have launched a crackdown that appears directly targeted at activists calling for the disclosure of official assets, a rights group said on Friday.
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BEIJING — The Chinese authorities have detained six anticorruption activists in recent days, expanding their crackdown on a citizen-led campaign that, on the surface at least, would appear to dovetail with the new leadership’s war on official graft.
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[CHRB] Political Prisoners Zhu Yufu and Xie Fulin Critically Ill Two political prisoners who have long suffered from debilitating illnesses behind bars—Hangzhou dissident Zhu Yufu (朱虞夫) and Hunan activist Xie Fulin (谢福林)—need urgent medical attention. Zhu’s current state is partly due to a spike in mistreatment over the past few (read more…)
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