Originally published by The New American (Magazine) on December 12, 2014 Meriam Ibrahim sat shackled in Khartoum’s Omdurman Federal Women’s Prison, sentenced to 100 lashes and death by hanging. Her 20-month-old son, Martin Wani, who shared her prison cell, was ill from the filth and the stress of the imprisonment. And now, (read more…)
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Originally published by IANS on December 12, 2014 China’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiabo, who is serving a 11-year sentence in prison for inciting subversion, Friday called for the world to pay more attention to the fate of lesser known Chinese rights activists. He said this in a message to (read more…)
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Originally published by Bloomberg on December 9, 2014. China sentenced seven students of incarcerated scholar Ilham Tohti, a member of the country’s Uighur minority, to three to eight years in prison for separatism, Hong Kong government broadcaster RTHK said. The verdicts followed a trial held last month, RTHK said on (read more…)
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In 2014, Chinese activists, writers, lawyers, journalists, artists, and citizens experienced one of the harshest years in government repression and retaliation. CHRD has recorded nearly 1,000 detentions in 2014 for exercising and defending human rights. We have produced an image gallery showcasing major trends and figures in China’s human rights (read more…)
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Wang Zang 王藏 Current detention 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: May 30, 2020 (detained); July 3, 2020 (arrested) Place of Incarceration: Chuxiong City Detention Center, Yunnan Province Background on Current Detention Police officers from (read more…)
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Guo Yushan 郭玉闪 (released) Crime: Illegal business activity Length of Punishment: N/A Court: N/A Trial Date: N/A Sentencing Date: N/A Dates of Detention/Arrest: October 9, 2014 (detained); January 3, 2015 (arrested) Place of Incarceration: Beijing No. 1 Detention Center (Beijing Municipality) Background In the early morning of October 9, 2014, (read more…)
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Jiang Liuyong 姜流勇 & Li Dongmei 李冬梅 (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: September 30, 2014 (detained); November 6, 2014 (arrested); May 30, 2015 (released on bail) Place of Incarceration: Fengtai District Detention Center (Beijing Municipality) Background Police summoned (read more…)
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On December 12, a court in Anhui Province handed down sentences to three activists—Li Huaping (李化平), Yao Cheng (姚城), and Zhou Weilin (周伟林)—based largely on their roles in the 2013 protests advocating for the education rights of activist Zhang Lin (张林)’s daughter. Elsewhere, a village leader in the Tibet Autonomous (read more…)
Read more![[CHRB] Activists’ Trials Possible During Holidays & Proposed Amendments to China’s Criminal Law (12/4-11/2014)](https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Tibetan-activist-Tenzin-Choedak-died-on-December-5-in-Lhasa-less-than-halfway-through-a-15-year-prison-sentence..jpg)
Five activists and lawyers seized since the spring of 2013 may face trial around Christmas, a common government tactic in recent years, intended to deflect international attention. Tibetan activist Tenzin Choedak died on December 5 in Lhasa City, two days after he was released after serving less than six years (read more…)
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In strident moves meant to further silence government critics, Beijing authorities have shuttered the Transition Institute, an independent research group, and also the Liren Group, which runs a private school and independent libraries, while detaining several individuals affiliated with these groups as well as other independent writers. Elsewhere, over the (read more…)
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Jia Lingmin 贾灵敏 (released) Crime: Creating a disturbance Length of Punishment: 4 years Court: Gongyi City People’s Court, Zhengzhou, Henan Province Trial Date: June 2, 2015 Sentencing Date: November 5, 2015 Dates of Detention/Arrest: May 7, 2014 (detained); May 30, 2014 (arrested) Place of Incarceration: Xinxiang Women’s Prison, Henan Province (read more…)
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Originally published by ABC on Novermber 27, 2014 Un peticionario, ciudadanos que viajan a Pekín para pedir justicia al Gobierno central y que son perseguidos por el régimen, ha fallecido cuando llevaba bajo custodia dos días, un caso que según organizaciones de derechos humanos pone en evidencia la falta de controles (read more…)
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