Sydney | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

Police in China’s Guangdong Move Ahead With Activist’s Subversion Trial

May 12, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on April 30, 2015 Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are moving ahead with the subversion trial of women’s rights activist Su Changlan, who publicly supported Hong Kong’s Occupy Central pro-democracy movement, her husband said on Thursday. Su was detained last October by (read more…)

Fears For Safety of Chinese Activist Who Supported Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement

May 12, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on April 24, 2015 The wife of an online activist detained for subversion in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong after he publicly supported Hong Kong’s Occupy Central pro-democracy movement says she fears for his health and safety as the the authorities look set to prosecute (read more…)

‘Landmark verdict’ for abused China wife who faced death

May 12, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by AFP on April 24, 2015 A Chinese court on Friday commuted the death sentence of a woman who killed her abusive husband, her lawyer told AFP, with a rights group labelling the move a “landmark verdict”. The case of Li Yan, who in 2010 beat to death her (read more…)

Capital Punishment Suspended for Domestic Violence Victim Who Killed Husband

May 12, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by Latin American Herald Tribune on May 1, 2015 BEIJING – A Chinese court on Friday gave a suspended death sentence, which can be transmuted to a life sentence if the prisoner shows good conduct, to Li Yan, a domestic violence victim who killed her husband. Since her arrest, (read more…)

Chinese woman who killed abusive husband gets reprieve

May 12, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by Big News Network on April 24, 2015 Beijing, April 24 (IANS): A Chinese court on Friday gave a suspended death sentence, which can be commuted to a life sentence if the prisoner shows good conduct, to Li Yan, a domestic violence victim who killed her husband, Efe news (read more…)

[CHRB] “Inciting Subversion” Cases Move Forward; Pu Zhiqiang Still in Legal Limbo (4/23-5/7/15)

May 7, 2015 Comments Off

Six human rights defenders—five activists and a lawyer—facing charges of “inciting subversion of state power” and other “political” offenses have seen developments in their cases this week. As partly seen in these cases, authorities since late 2014 have returned to using more explicitly political charges, like those involving “subversion” and (read more…)

Wu Rongrong (武嵘嵘)

May 11, 2015 Comments Off

Wu Rongrong 武嵘嵘 (released) Crime: “Creating a disturbance” Length of Punishment: N/A Court: N/A Trial Date: N/A Sentencing Date: N/A Dates of Detention/Arrest: March 7, 2015 (detained); April 13, 2015 (released on bail) Place of Incarceration: Haidian District Detention Center (Beijing Municipality) Background Hangzhou police detained Wu Rongrong (武嵘嵘) on (read more…)

China: Release Journalists, Protect Press Freedom

May 1, 2015 Comments Off

On the eve of 2015’s World Press Freedom Day, CHRD calls on the Chinese government to release the dozens of journalists, bloggers, and citizen journalists imprisoned in China, including the recently imprisoned 71-year old journalist Gao Yu (高瑜). On April 17, a Beijing court sentenced Gao to seven years in (read more…)

China Fails to Right A Wrong, Sentences Victim of Domestic Violence To Death a Second Time

April 24, 2015 Comments Off

(The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders — April 24, 2015) Following a retrial of the death penalty case that was returned by the Supreme People’s Court, the Sichuan Provincial People’s High Court issued its verdict of death with a 2-year delay in execution to Li Yan (李彦), who had (read more…)

[CHRB] Alleged Torture To Coerce Confessions in Criminal Gang Case, Violence Against Lawyers (4/17-23/2015)

April 23, 2015 Comments Off

Police allegedly tortured several defendants in a criminal gang case in Hunan Province in order to extract confessions, which prosecutors then used as evidence against them at trial, according to their lawyers. Among 47 total defendants in the case—all accused of being members of the triad known as “Zhou clan (read more…)

China jails 71-year-old veteran journalist for ‘leaking state secrets’

April 23, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by Telegraph on April 17 A veteran Chinese journalist has been sentenced to seven years in prison for “leaking state secrets” in what activists described as the latest chapter in an unyielding Communist Party offensive against its opponents. Gao Yu, a 71-year-old writer who has spent decades chronicling Chinese (read more…)

Calls Grow For Probe Into Beating of Chinese Lawyer in a Beijing Court

April 20, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on April 16, 2015 Hundreds of lawyers and rights activists are calling for an independent investigation into the alleged beating of Beijing-based lawyer Cui Hui by court officials in the Chinese capital. Cui, 51, says she was attacked by judges and bailiffs at the Tongzhou (read more…)