Originally published by Radio Free Asia on January 24, 2017 Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have sent nine residents of the rebel village of Wukan to prison to begin serving sentences ranging from two to 10 years for their involvement in resistance to an armed police raid, without giving (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on January 24, 2017 A rights group on Tuesday called for the immediate release of detained Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang, detailing his lawyers’ reports of his torture in a police-run detention center in the central province of Hunan. Xie was subjected to confinement in a (read more…)
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Originally published by The New York Times on January 20, 2017 BEIJING — Perched unsteadily on a stack of plastic stools in an isolated room, Xie Yang, a Chinese lawyer, was encircled day and night by interrogators who blew smoke in his face, punched and kicked him, and threatened to turn him into (read more…)
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Submitted to: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of (read more…)
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Lu Yuyu 卢昱宇 (released) Crime: Picking quarrels and provoking trouble Length of Punishment: 4 years Court: Dali City People’s Court (Yunnan Province) Trial Date: June 23, 2017 Sentencing Date: August 3, 2017 Dates of Detention/Arrest: June 16, 2016 (detained); July 21, 2016 (arrested); August, 2017 (sentenced); June 14, 2020 (released) Place (read more…)
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Li Tingyu 李婷玉 (released) Crime: Picking quarrels and provoking trouble Length of Punishment: N/A Court: Dali City People’s Court (Yunnan Province) Trial Date: April 20, 2017 Sentencing Date: N/A Dates of Detention/Arrest: June 16, 2016 (detained); July 22, 2016 (arrested); June 2017 (released/at home) Place of Incarceration: Dali Bai Autonomous (read more…)
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Jiang Tianyong 江天勇 (released) Crime: Inciting subversion of state power Length of Punishment: Two years Court: Changsha Intermediate People’s Court Trial Date: August 22, 2017 Sentencing Date: November 21, 2017 Dates of Detention/Arrest: November 21, 2016 (disappeared); December 1, 2016 (residential surveillance at a designated location); May 31, 2017 (formally (read more…)
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Promoting and protecting human rights remained a high-risk activity in 2016, says CHRD in its annual report released today on the situation of human rights defenders in China, They Target My Human Rights Work as a Crime. The Chinese government intensified crackdowns on human rights defenders (HRDs) and criminalized rights (read more…)
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“人权小额资助”项目旨在为遭受人权侵犯的受害者（尤其是人权捍卫者）提供寻求司法救济的法律援助； 为受到迫害的人权捍卫者提供人道援助； 并支持倡导人权的民间社团行动，培植和推广公民社会理念与实践，推进政府透明和有责必追。本项目同时致力于推动中国政府落实包括《世界人权宣言》和中国政府已经加入的各项国际人权公约，并促使国内法的制订和实施符合国际人权标准，以实现所有人在政治、经济、社会、文化等方面的基本人权得到保障。
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CHRD calls on the Chinese government to promptly and impartially investigate torture allegations made by detained human rights lawyer Xie Yang (谢阳), and reiterates our persistent demand for the unconditional and immediate release of all incarcerated rights lawyers.
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on December 23, 2016 Chen Yunfei, a veteran rights activist in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan who was detained after visiting the grave of a Tiananmen massacre victim in 2015, will stand trial on Dec. 26 on public order charges following repeated delays (read more…)
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Eleven activists in the city of Shenzhen remain forcibly disappeared since police seized them between November 15 and December 8. Three of them are confirmed to be under “residential surveillance” and suspected of “subversion of state power.”
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