Jailing of Chinese Activist, Editor Draws International Calls for Release

August 12, 2019       Comments Off on Jailing of Chinese Activist, Editor Draws International Calls for Release

 

Originally published by Radio Free Asia in August 2, 2019  Overseas governments and human rights organizations have strongly condemned the jailing of Chinese rights activist Huang Qi for 12 years on state secrets charges. The Mianyang Intermediate People’s Court in the southwestern province of Sichuan sentenced Huang to 12-years’ imprisonment on (read more…)

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China’s first ‘cyber-dissident’ jailed for 12 years

August 12, 2019       Comments Off on China’s first ‘cyber-dissident’ jailed for 12 years

 

Originally published by AFP in July 29, 2019  China’s first “cyber-dissident”, whose website reported on sensitive topics including human rights, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for leaking state secrets. Huang Qi ran a website called 64 Tianwang – named after the bloody 4 June 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters. (read more…)

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Death of ‘barefoot lawyer’ puts focus on China’s treatment of political prisoners

August 12, 2019       Comments Off on Death of ‘barefoot lawyer’ puts focus on China’s treatment of political prisoners

 

Originally published by The Guardian in July 15, 2019   In June, Ji Sizun received the news that he had won a prestigious human rights distinction, the Cao Shunli Memorial Award, in honour of the veteran Chinese activist who died in 2014 in police custody, after being denied needed medical treatment for (read more…)

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Rights Groups Urge China to Investigate Death of Activist in Police Custody

August 12, 2019       Comments Off on Rights Groups Urge China to Investigate Death of Activist in Police Custody

 

Originally published by Voice Of Asia on July 12, 2019   International rights groups and activists are calling for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of grassroots legal activist Ji Sizun. Ji died of cancer Wednesday in a police-guarded hospital in the southeastern province of Fujian, two months after (read more…)

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Comment Pékin étend sa mainmise sur le Xinjiang

August 9, 2019       Comments Off on Comment Pékin étend sa mainmise sur le Xinjiang

 

Originally published by Le Figaro.fr on July 5, 2019 INFOGRAPHIE – Au nord-ouest de la Chine, le Xinjiang est la terre des Ouïghours, une minorité musulmane. Il y a dix ans, des affrontements intercommunautaires ont signé une première étape dans le renforcement de la répression chinoise dans cette région hautement stratégique (read more…)

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Former Protest Leaders Call For Probe Into China’s Tiananmen Rights Record

July 29, 2019       Comments Off on Former Protest Leaders Call For Probe Into China’s Tiananmen Rights Record

 

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on June 18, 2019  Rights activists and former protest leaders have called on the UnitedNations to investigate human rights violations at the hands of the ruling Chinese Communist Party over the past three decades, specifically in relation to the crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy movement and massacre of (read more…)

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More than 1 million Muslims are detained in China—but how did we get that number?

July 29, 2019       Comments Off on More than 1 million Muslims are detained in China—but how did we get that number?

 

Originally published by Quartz on July 5, 2019  Numerous numbers of ethnic Uyghur Muslims are being held by Chinese authorities in western China’s Xinjiang under the guise of “re-education” against extremist thought—and the search for an accurate number of those detained remains elusive. The tightening control of a region home (read more…)

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David Pratt: How the sinister repression of China’s Uighur minority ethnic group intensified after the Urumqi riots

July 29, 2019       Comments Off on David Pratt: How the sinister repression of China’s Uighur minority ethnic group intensified after the Urumqi riots

 

Originally published by Herald Scotland on July 7, 2019  IT’S been described as the largest mass incarceration of the 21st century and a human rights issue much of the world has largely ignored. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines the sinister repression of China’s Uighur minority ethnic group. IT began in the (read more…)

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‘The Police Guards Took Her to The Hospital’

July 29, 2019       Comments Off on ‘The Police Guards Took Her to The Hospital’

 

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on July 12, 2019  The elderly mother of ailing human rights activist and website founder Huang Qi is incommunicado, while her son has yet to receive an official sentence following his trial, RFA has learned. Pu Wenqing, 86, is currently under house arrest at her home (read more…)

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