Cao Haibo, a worker at an Internet café in Yunnan Province and organizer of a website that promotes democracy, was sentenced to eight years in prison for expressing his political views online. Born in 1985, Cao was detained in October 2011 and later arrested for “inciting subversion of state power.”
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China Human Rights Briefing March 2-8, 2010 Highlights Harassment of Sensitive Individuals Continues as Government Meetings Begin: CHRD has documented more than 60 cases of individuals around the country harassed, detained, or subjected to restrictions on their movement by officials during the “Two Meetings” of the National People’s Congress and (read more…)
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Headlines Citizens’ Actions Artists March on Chang’an Avenue to Protest against Forced Eviction Freedom of Expression Kunming Dissident Questioned over Support for Charter 08, Liu Xiaobo Site Devoted to Academic Exchange Blocked Forced Demolition and Eviction Beijing Police Meet With Artists Following 2/22 Protest, Discuss Forced Evictions Jiangsu Man Sentenced (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- February 26, 2010) CHRD has learned that three death row inmates are staging a hunger strike in a Jiangxi prison to draw attention to their convictions, which have been upheld despite a lack of evidence and shocking abuses perpetrated by police assigned to their case. Fang (read more…)
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Arbitrary Detention Shanghai Activist Tong Guojing Sent to RTL on Eve of Chinese New Year Harassment of Activists Feng Zhenghu Returns Home Beijing Police Break up Food Distribution for Stranded Petitioners, Briefly Detain Volunteer Labor Rights Many Workers Injured, One Critically, Following Protest over Unpaid Wages Forced Eviction and Demolition (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing February 6-11, 2010 Headlines Arbitrary Detention Tan Zuoren Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for “Inciting Subversion of State Power” Shenzhen Worker Sentenced to 1.5 Years for “Subversion of State Power” Sentence Upheld for Liu Xiaobo; Beijing Activists Prevented from Attending Hearing Conviction Upheld Without Hearing (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing January 30-February 5, 2010 Harassment of Activists Beijing Dissidents Cha Jianguo and Gao Hongming Subjected to Soft Detention Forced Eviction and Demolition Two Jiangsu Residents Seriously Injured in Forced Eviction Six Injured in Clash between Developer and Landholders in Guangxi Legal Rights Appeals Hearing for Li (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, February 11, 2010) – CHRD learned today that the Beijing Municipal High Court rejected the appeal of Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), China’s best-known dissident intellectual and human rights activist. Liu was convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced to eleven years in prison on December (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- February 9, 2010) Tan Zuoren (谭作人), human rights activist and environmentalist, was sentenced today to five years in prison with an additional three years’ deprivation of political rights for “inciting subversion of state power” in Chengdu, Sichuan. According to his lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强), the court (read more…)
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To download the complete report in PDF format, please click here Thrown Out: Human Rights Abuses in China’s Breakneck Real Estate Development Published on February 9, 2010 Some of the most striking images to come out of China in recent memory—a lone house perched atop a column of dirt in (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefings January 23-29, 2010 Headlines Freedom of Expression “China Public Watchdog Net” Attacked by Hackers Five Chinese Activist Web sites Attacked by Hackers Legal Rights Update: Anti-Discrimination Lawsuit against Family Planning Bureau to Be Heard Next Thursday Guangzhou Court Hears Lawsuit from Lawyer Deprived of License Arbitrary (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing January 14-22, 2010 Headlines Arbitrary Detention Imprisoned Lawyer and Torture Victim Wang Yonghang Meets with Lawyers for First Time Longtime Petitioner Guo Qinghua Detained Case Against Sichuan Activist Liu Zhengyou Transferred to Procuratorate Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng “Missing,” Say Beijing Authorities Legal Rights Court Rejects (read more…)
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