Submission 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 rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Special (read more…)
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Li Xiaoling 李小玲 (released on suspended sentence) *Previously under medical watch Crime: Picking quarrels and provoking trouble Length of Punishment: 3 years, suspended for 5 years Court: Zhuhai City Xiangzhou District Court Trial Date: November 14, 2018 Sentencing Date: November 27, 2018 Dates of Detention/Arrest: June 4, 2017 (detained); August 8, (read more…)
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Originally published by UCA News on October 24, 2017 In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, so called political re-education camps have been proliferating in the lead up to the 19th Communist Party Congress. The Chinese government’s aim is to streamline ideology in an area it perceives to be troubled by Islamic (read more…)
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Originally published by Reuters on October 22, 2017 BEIJING (Reuters) – Hu Jia, a well-known Chinese dissident who lives in Beijing, says he had hoped to go to the southeastern city of Xiamen for his government-sponsored holiday, but state security officials said no. “They told me I had to go to (read more…)
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Originally published by The New York Times on October 20, 2017 BEIJING — The police and military swarm the streets at all hours, checking documents and questioning passers-by. Political critics have been jailed, placed under surveillance or sent to the countryside. Popular gathering spots like nightclubs have been shuttered and home-sharing (read more…)
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Originally published by Baptist Press on October 20, 2017 BEIJING (BP) — A kidnapped Chinese Christian attorney held in Beijing chronicles China’s religious persecution in a book smuggled from the country and published in the U.S., even as Chinese President Xi Jinping pledges to control religion there. Renowned attorney Gao Zhisheng’s (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on October 20, 2017 The United Nations has demanded that China should immediately release prominent human rights activists from detention and pay them compensation, according to an unreleased document obtained by the Guardian. The report, which has not been made public, from the UN’s human rights council says (read more…)
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Originally published by Herald Sun on October 19, 2017 It is a sure sign of a tyrant, showing no concern for his audience and confident that none will dare walk out or tell him to stop: “Xi Jinping … [tested] his comrades’ eyelids – and their bladders – with a three-and-a-half hour, (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on October 19, 2017 Police are holding at least 14 rights activists on public order charges as the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s five-yearly congress began this week, rights activists said. The overseas-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) network, which compiles reports from rights groups inside China, said most (read more…)
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Originally published by France 24 on October 18, 2017 Las calles de Beijing están listas para recibir a los 2.287 delegados del Partido Comunista para su XIX Congreso, la mayor reunión política china, en la que se espera que el presidente Xi Jinping logre un segundo mandato al frente del partido. (read more…)
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Originally published by Independent on October 18, 2017 China’s President Xi Jinping set out his Communist Party’s far-reaching agenda on Wednesday, using his opening speech at a twice-a-decade leadership meeting to set out a vision of total control – with the party guiding not only the economy and the internet but (read more…)
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Originally published by eldiario.es on October 17, 2017 La organización Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) denunció hoy la detención de 14 activistas y críticos con el Gobierno chino en las semanas previas a la celebración del XIX Congreso del Partido Comunista, que comienza mañana en Pekín en medio de un gran despliegue (read more…)
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