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Tiananmen Vigil Organizers Denied Bail As Rights Groups, U.K. Slam Subversion Charges

September 10, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on 10 September, 2021 A court in Hong Kong on Friday denied bail to one of the organizers of a now-banned candlelight vigil for the victims of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen massacre, amid an international outcry at subversion charges laid against three of its key members.Chow (read more…)

Veteran Chinese Democracy Activist Stands Trial For ‘Subversion’ Over Articles

September 10, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on 10 September, 2021 A court in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu has tried Guo Quan, a former professor from Nanjing Normal University, for “incitement to subvert state power” after he criticized the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s response to the emergence of (read more…)

Persecution of the Hong Kong Alliance makes a mockery of NSL promises

September 9, 2021 Comments Off

CHRD condemns the ongoing persecution against the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement of China (“the Hong Kong Alliance”), and in particular, the arrest on Thursday of chairman Lee Cheuk-yan, vice-chairs Chow Hang-tung and Albert Ho on the charge of “inciting subversion”, which could carry a (read more…)

CHRD tells Germany not to deport Chinese activist Liu Bing

September 8, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by Asia News on 8 September, 2021 According to Chinese Human Rights Defenders , Liu risks an unfair trial and torture once at home where he was already penalised for ties with human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong. Angela Merkel is the main backer of an EU-China investment agreement, (read more…)

Chinese Billionaire Given 18 Years In Prison For ‘Provoking Trouble’

September 8, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by The Moguldom Nation on 8 September, 2021 A billionaire Chinese pig farmer was sentenced to 18 years in prison after he was found guilty of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” in China, a charge commonly used against activists and protesters. Sun Dawu, chairman of Dawu Agriculture Group, (read more…)

Feminist Activist Li Qiaochu Struggles With Mental Health in Detention

August 30, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on 30 August, 2021 Rights activist Li Qiaochu has met with a lawyer for the first time after nearly seven months’ detention in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, on suspicion of subversion, RFA has learned. Li is currently in COVID-19 quarantine in a (read more…)

China would benefit from legal reform – but its future looks bleak

August 13, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by The Globe and Mail 13 August, 2021 On Tuesday, a Chinese court in the northeastern city of Shenyang upheld the death sentence for Canadian citizen Robert Schellenberg, who had been convicted of drug trafficking. Just a day later, a court in the nearby city of Dandong sentenced (read more…)

Vocal Critic Of Chinese Government Billionaire Sun Dawu Jailed For 18 Years

July 30, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by Swarajya on 30 July, 2021 Snapshot Chinese billionaire Sun Dawu has been sentenced to 18 years in prison on various charges.Earlier, advocacy group Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) had said that it was a blatant attempt to punish Dawu for his support of human rights. The outspoken (read more…)

Chinese billionaire pig farmer jailed for ‘provoking trouble’

July 28, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by The Guardian on 28 July, 2021 Sun Dawu, a Chinese billionaire pig farmer and agricultural mogul, has been sentenced after weeks of hearings in secret to 18 years in prison and fined 3.11m yuan (£345,000) for a catalogue of crimes including “provoking trouble”, in a case observers (read more…)

After the Floods, China Found a Target for Its Pain: Foreign Media

July 28, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by The New York Times on 28 July, 2021 Western journalists reporting on a natural disaster met with public hostility in person and online that the Chinese state media openly encouraged. After extreme flooding in central China last week destroyed homes, engulfed subways and killed at least 73, the ruling (read more…)

As China Rolled Out Its COVID-19 Shots, Victims of Earlier Vaccine Scandals Vanished

July 24, 2021 Comments Off

By Renee Xia July 24, 2021 He Fangmei was seven months pregnant when she, her husband, and their two young children were taken from their home in Henan province by authorities last October. They have not been heard from since. A 2018 scandal involving the Chinese vaccine manufacturer Changsheng Bio (read more…)

Two Changsha Funeng Activists Jailed For Two, Three Years

July 22, 2021 Comments Off

Originally published by RFA on 22 July, 2021 Two years after three NGO workers were detained in the central Chinese province of Hunan, their families have received news of sentences handed down to two of them. Cheng Yuan, Liu Dazhi, and Wu Ge Jianxiong, who ran the Changsha Funeng NGO, (read more…)