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A Public Letter by Chinese Citizens Urging the Release of Uyghur Journalist Hailaite Niyazi

July 30, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- July 30, 2010) A group of Chinese lawyers and scholars have made public an open letter expressing concern about the “criminalization of speech” in the case of Uyghur journalist Hailaite Niyazi, who was sentenced on July 23 to 15 years in prison for endangering state security (read more…)

CHRD Protests Harsh and Unjust Sentence for Uyghur Journalist Hailaite Niyazi

July 23, 2010 Comments Off

CHRD Protests Harsh and Unjust Sentence for Uyghur Journalist Hailaite Niyazi (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- July 23, 2010) On July 23, a court in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) sentenced journalist Hailaite Niyazi (whose name also sometimes appears as Hairat or Gheyret Niyaz or Niyaze) to 15 years in (read more…)

Submission to UN on Liu Xianbin – July 12, 2010

July 12, 2010 Comments Off

Update on Case of Sichuan Democracy Activist, Human Rights Defender Liu Xianbin, Formally Arrested for “Inciting Subversion of State Power” TO: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders Since our last communiqué, dated June 29, CHRD has learned the following facts (read more…)

Submission to UN on Li Jinfang – July 2, 2010

July 2, 2010 Comments Off

Update on Harassment of Human Rights Defenders affiliated with the NGO CHRD TO: The Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders The Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression On June 8, 2010, CHRD submitted a (read more…)

Human Rights Defender Li Jinfang Summoned by Police, Home Raided and Property Confiscated

July 1, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, July 1, 2010) Fifteen police officers raided the Xianghe County, Hebei Province home of human rights defender Li Jinfang (李金芳) this afternoon, confiscating 74 items, including human rights-related documents, computer equipment and financial documents. Several officers took Li and her teenage daughter Ar Dan (阿丹) to (read more…)

Sichuan Democracy Activist Liu Xianbin Criminally Detained for “Inciting Subversion of State Power”

June 29, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- June 29, 2010) Little more than a year after he was released following a decade in prison, convicted of “subversion of state power” in 1999, Sichuan democracy activist Liu Xianbin (刘贤斌) has once again been criminally detained, this time for “inciting subversion of state power.” On (read more…)

Liaoning High People’s Court Must Overturn Death Sentence Given to Street Vendor Xia Junfeng, Victim of Official Violence

June 28, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- June 28, 2010) On June 29, the Liaoning Provincial High People’s Court (Liaoning HPC) will convene an open court session to hear the appeal of Xia Junfeng (夏俊峰), a street vendor in Shenyang City who was sentenced to death for killing two City Administration and Law (read more…)

Chen Yunfei, Come Home!

June 25, 2010 Comments Off

A short film by Sun Yat-sen University professor and documentary filmmaker Ai Xiaoming (艾晓明) about Sichuan human rights defender Chen Yunfei (陈云飞), who was recently detained in a black jail between June 17 and June 19, 2011.

China Human Rights Briefing June 15-21, 2010

June 22, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing June 15-21, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Beijing Activists Harassed Ahead of Dragon Boat Festival: Beijing police, concerned that local activists and netizens would be gathering together during the Dragon Boat Festival, harassed and briefly detained a (read more…)

Emergency Shelter- A Documentary About Ni Yulan

June 21, 2010 Comments Off

Emergency Shelter (应急避难场所) is filmmaker He Yang’s (何杨) documentary about the persecution faced by Beijing human rights defender Ni Yulan (倪玉兰).

Submission to UN on Liu Zhengyou – June 16, 2010

June 16, 2010 Comments Off

Communiqué Alleging Illegally Prolonged Detention of Human Rights Defender Liu Zhengyou TO: Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Chinese Human Rights Defenders would like to call your attention to the case of Liu Zhengyou, a human rights defender currently detained in (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing June 1-7, 2010

June 9, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing Weekly June 1-7, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights 21st Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre Marked by Harassment, Detentions, Silence: This year, the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, the Chinese government once again refused to openly and truthfully (read more…)