Originally published by Radio Free Asia on August 30, 2016 Concerns are growing for the safety of dozens of human rights lawyers and associates locked up in an unknown location by the Chinese authorities in a crackdown that started in July 2015, as the international community marks a day of concern (read more…)
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Zhang Rongping 张荣平 (released) Crime: Inciting subversion of state power Length of Punishment: Four years Court: Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People’s Court Trial Date: November 23, 2015 Sentencing Date: April 8, 2016 Dates of Detention/Arrest: October 3, 2014 (detained); November 4, 2015 (arrested) Place of Incarceration: Meizhou Prison, Guangdong Province Verdict: (read more…)
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Xie Yanyi 谢燕益 (released) Crime: Inciting subversion of state power Length of Punishment: N/A Court: N/A Trial Date: N/A Sentencing Date: N/A Dates of Detention/Arrest: July 12, 2015 (detained); January 8, 2016 (arrested); January 18, 2017 (released on bail) Place of Incarceration: Tianjin Municipal No. 2 Detention Center Background Information (read more…)
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Xie Yang 谢阳 Crime: Inciting subversion of state power & disrupting court order Length of Punishment: Exempted from punishment Court: Changsha City Intermediate People’s Court, Hunan Province Trial Date: May 8, 2017 Sentencing Date: December 26, 2017 Dates of Detention/Arrest: July 11, 2015 (detained); January 9, 2016 (arrested); May 8, (read more…)
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Meng Han 孟晗 (released) Crime: Gathering a crowd to disrupt social order Length of Punishment: One year nine months Court: Panyu District People’s Court, Guangzhou Trial Date: November 3, 2016 Sentencing Date: Nvember 3, 2016 Dates of Detention/Arrest: December 3, 2015 (detained); January 8, 2016 (arrested) Place of Incarceration: Guangzhou City (read more…)
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Zeng Feiyang 曾飞洋 (released on suspended sentence) Crime: Gathering a crowd to disrupt social order Length of Punishment: Three years, suspended for four years Court: Panyu District No. 2 People’s Court, Guangzhou Trial Date: September 26, 2016 Sentencing Date: September 26, 2016 Dates of Detention/Arrest: December 3, 2015 (detained); January 8, 2016 (read more…)
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Yin Xu’an 尹旭安 *Under medical watch Current detention Crime: Picking quarrels and provoking trouble Length of Punishment: N/A Court: N/A Trial Date: N/A Sentencing Date: N/A Dates of Detention/Arrest: June 5, 2019 (criminal detention); July 11, 2019 (arrest); October 24, 2019 (indictment) Date of Birth: August 27, 1974 Medical (read more…)
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Wang Fang 王芳 (released) Crime: Picking quarrels and provoking trouble Length of Punishment: 3 years Court: Wuchang District People’s Court, Hubei Province (Wuhan City) Trial Date: February 10, 2017 Sentencing Date: July 18, 2017 Dates of Detention/Arrest: July 28, 2015 (detained); September 15, 2015 (arrested); June 11, 2018 (released) Place of (read more…)
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Since President Xi Jinping took power, Chinese authorities have stepped up the practice of forcibly disappearing human rights lawyers and other rights defenders. On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance, CHRD urges the government to end the use of enforced disappearance to persecute those they want to (read more…)
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Submission to: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association 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 Special Rapporteur on torture and (read more…)
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Submitted to: Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression Chinese Human Rights (read more…)
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Xie Fengxia 谢丰夏 Current Detention Crime: Picking quarrels and provoking trouble Length of Punishment: 4 years and 6 months Court: N/A Trial Date: N/A Sentencing Date: N/A Dates of Detention/Arrest: April 30, 2020 (criminally detained); July 13, 2020 (indicted); April 15, 2021 (trial) Place of Incarceration: Chshan prison Previous Detention (read more…)
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