Shen Aibin (沈爱斌) Crime: Picking quarrels and provoking trouble Length of Punishment: 2.5 years Court: Huishan District People’s Court, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province Trial Date: April 23, 2017 Sentencing Date: May 25, 2017 Dates of Detention/Arrest: April 13, 2016 (detained); May 20, 2016 (residential surveillance at home), September 2, 2016 (formally arrested) Place of (read more…)
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Civil Society Follow-Up Report Submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture: Responses to the Committee’s Requests & to China’s Follow-up Report Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) in Collaboration with a Consortium of Chinese Civil Society Groups June 2017 Read as PDF Table of Contents Introduction 1. Restrictions on (read more…)
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President Xi Jinping has completely ignored China’s domestic laws and international treaty obligations prohibiting torture. We have heard heartbreaking details about human rights lawyers being tortured by police. The apparent aim was to extract confessions and to punish them for defending human rights. Hundreds of Chinese citizens have signed a (read more…)
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Police have intimidated the lawyers and family of Luo Jibiao (罗继标), an ethnic Zhuang, who died in police custody on May 26. CHRD has confirmed the detentions of 16 Chinese citizens for commemorating the 28th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, though the actual number might be higher.
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Submission to: Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 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 Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur on the right (read more…)
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在中国当局血腥镇压“六四”民主运动的28年后，很多八九民运的参与者因为持续倡导人权、法治和民主改革，被剥夺人身自由。他（她）们当中有些人在当年起到了领头作用，有些则以年轻学生、教授、记者、作家或工人身份加入北京和全国各地的示威游行。有些人因为参与那场民主运动当时就被判刑监禁。获释后，他（她）仍然继续从事推动民主和人权的活动。这些八九民运参与者受到的刑罚通常比其他人严苛，因为中国当局认为这些人是有政治企图的累犯、有意图挑战其一党专制的合法性。
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CHRD calls for freedom for participants in the 1989 protests who are currently in detention or prison for continuing their advocacy for human rights, rule of law, and democratic reforms.
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Provisions in China’s new draft intelligence law, if adopted in their current form, would further tighten control over civil society organizations, both domestic and international, and which already are under assault as “hostile forces” that threaten “national security.”
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To: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention CHRD reply to Chinese government’s response regarding the cases of Zhou Shifeng, Hu Shigen, Xie Yang, Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Li Chunfu, and Jiang Tianyong. The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) hereby respectfully submits this reply to the Government’s response made regarding lawyers Zhou (read more…)
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Chen Yunfei (陈云飞) (released) Crime: Picking quarrels and provoking trouble (2017); child molestation (2021) Length of Punishment: 4 years Court: Wuhou District People’s Court (Chengdu City, Sichuan Province) Trial Date: March 31, 2017 Sentencing Date: March 31, 2017 Dates of Detention/Arrest: March 25, 2021 (detained); April 30, 2021 (formally arrested); December 3, 2021 (trial) (read more…)
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Originally published by ABC News on May 10, 2017 China has released two prominent human rights lawyers detained nearly two years ago, after they allegedly confessed in court to collaborating with foreign organizations and media to smear and subvert Communist Party rule. The two men’s release narrows the list of human (read more…)
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Originally published by HKFP on May 10, 2017 Chinese human rights lawyer Xie Yang has “confessed” to working with foreign media outlets to sensationalise cases. He denied previous claims that he was tortured in an “exclusive interview” with a Hunan TV station. Xie, who had worked on numerous cases considered politically sensitive (read more…)
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