Originally published by Voice Of America on January 29, 2016 A Guangzhou, China court Friday handed down guilty verdicts for three Chinese rights activists — Tang Jingling, Yuan Xinting and Wang Qingying — who now face up to five years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power.” Human rights groups (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on January 29, 2016 Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Friday handed down jail terms of up to five years to the “Guangzhou Three” rights activists for subversion, after they sought to launch a civil disobedience campaign to protect human rights. The (read more…)
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Originally published by The Wall Street Journal (blog) on January 23, 2016 A trio of recent repressive actions by the Chinese party-state represents a disturbing three-pronged attack that treats legality as an unnecessary burden on governance over society, and illustrates how far China is willing to go to snuff out dissent. (read more…)
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Originally published by Time on January 22, 2016 China has handed prison sentences totaling more than 19 years to an activist in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, the home of the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic group. Zhang Haitao, who is himself Han Chinese, was given 15 years for “incitement to subvert state power” (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on January 21, 2016 Authorities in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang have jailed a Han Chinese rights activist for 19 years on subversion and spying charges after he openly criticized government policy in the troubled region. Zhang Haitao was handed a 15-year prison term (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on January 14, 2016 Authorities in the Chinese capital have formally arrested another associate of the Beijing Fengrui law firm and a rights activist on subversion charges, bringing the total facing jail on similar charges to 10, a Hong Kong-based rights group said on Thursday. Fengrui (read more…)
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Heilongjiang activist Zhang Shuzhi (张淑芝), who is terminally ill with cancer, has been given a four-year prison sentence in retaliation against her exercising the rights to free expression and peaceful assembly. Also, by CHRD’s count, 10 mainland activists remain in custody for openly supporting the 2014 pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong (read more…)
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任意拘留问题工作组第七十四届会议(2015 年 11 月 30 日至 12月4 日) 通过的意见 第 39/2015 号意见 事关苏昌兰(中国)
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Originally published by New York Times on January 13, 2016 Over the last six months, the Chinese authorities have detained or summoned for questioning more than 200 legal practitioners who had worked on civil rights cases. While some have been released, several prominent lawyers now face criminal charges, including subverting state power, (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on January 8, 2016 Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong on Friday handed a six-month jail term to detained rights lawyer Shu Xiangxin, whose lawyers say he was tortured while in custody at a police-run detention center. Shu was found guilty of “defamation” at (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on December 29, 2015 A court in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has handed down an 18-month jail term to an activist who showed online support for last year’s pro-democracy Occupy Central movement in neighboring Hong Kong. Ye Xiaozheng, known online by his nickname (read more…)
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Human rights lawyer Shu Xiangxin (舒向新) was reportedly subjected to torture and other forms of ill-treatment in a detention center on January 4, in a case emblematic of the harsh reprisals that Chinese human rights lawyers can face. The incident is indicative of the persistence of torture in China’s detention (read more…)
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