Communiqué on behalf of Wang Bingrong, citizen of People’s Republic of China, Alleging Arbitrary Arrest or Detention I. IDENTITY 1. Family name: Wang (王) 2. First name: Bingrong (兵荣) 3. Sex: Male 4. Birth date or age (at the time of detention): 28 years old at the time of (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly January 19-24, 2011 To download this week’s edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Beijing Court to Hold New Hearing in Case against Artist and Activist Wu Yuren: On January 28, the Chaoyang District Court will hold a new hearing in (read more…)
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Originally from Guangxi Province, Chen Xi (aka Chen Youcai [陈友才]) has been a member of the Guizhou Human Rights Forum, which was declared by Guizhou authorities to be an “illegal organization” on December 5, 2011—a week after his most recent arrest and just prior to UN Human Rights Day.
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly January 11-18, 2011 To download this edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights U.S. Must Deliver on Promise of Making Human Rights the Guiding Principle of its China Policy: In a statement this week, CHRD urged President Obama to send a (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, January 17, 2011) In a speech before the United Nations last fall, President Obama emphasized that “part of the price of our own freedom is standing up for the freedom of others,” stating that “this belief will guide America’s leadership in this 21st century.” During Chinese (read more…)
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Chen Wei has been frequently harassed by police, placed under tight surveillance, and has had restrictions placed on his movement, including at least one occasion in which he was prevented from leaving the country. Chen was taken into custody during the “Jasmine Revolution” crackdown in February 2011.
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Chen Guangcheng, a rural “barefoot lawyer,” campaigned for the rights of villagers and the disabled. He provided free legal consultation to these groups from 1996 until he was detained in the fall of 2005, after he and his wife began to investigate villagers’ claims of excessive violence in the implementation (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly December 28, 2010 – January 3, 2011 To download this edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Children’s Rights and Food Safety Activist Zhao Lianhai Believed to Be Released: Zhao Lianhai (赵 连海), founder of the online advocacy group Kidney Stone (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly December 22-27, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here. Highlights Happy Birthday Liu Xiaobo: December 28 is the 55th birthday of Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), activist, intellectual and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. This is the third consecutive birthday Liu (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly December 14-21, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here. Highlights Unidentified Group Attacks Lawyer Zhang Kai on Beijing Road: Beijing human rights lawyer Zhang Kai (张凯) was driving on Beijing’s Third Ring Road the night of December 14 when (read more…)
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Countries that have embassies in Oslo were invited to send representatives to the ceremony, but the Chinese government had aggressively called for a boycott. In the end, forty-five countries attended, but another nineteen—including Russia, Pakistan, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Vietnam—chose to stay away.
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UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Should Raise Zhao’s Case During his Mission to China (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, December 15, 2010)- On December 15, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, begins a 10-day mission to China, the first official visit to (read more…)
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