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Submission to UN on Xie Qiang, Gu Chuan, Wang Debang, Zhou Weilin – June 6, 2010

June 6, 2010 Comments Off

Communique on Harassment of Human Rights Defenders Affiliated with the NGO CHRD TO: The Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, and The Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression In the past three months, police in Beijing and (read more…)

Disbarment

June 3, 2010 Comments Off

Disbarment (吊照门) is a film chronicling the case of human rights lawyers Tang Jitian and Liu Wei, whose lawyers’ licenses were revoked by Beijing authorities in 2010 in what CHRD believes is a clear case of retaliation against the pair for defending “sensitive” clients.

Chinese internet activists take protests to the real world

May 18, 2010 Comments Off

A video produced by Jamil Anderlini for The Financial Times looks at the case of Fan Yanqiong (范燕琼), Wu Huaying (吴华英), and You Jingyou (游精佑) as a means of examining contemporary internet activism in China.

China Human Rights Briefing April 27- May 3, 2010

May 4, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing Weekly April 27- May 3, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Detentions, Harassment Continue as World Expo Opens: As CHRD reported in an April 28 press release, officials in Shanghai and around the country have been detaining, harassing, (read more…)

Chinese Government Silences Activists Ahead of Shanghai World Expo

April 28, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 28, 2010) As the 2010 Shanghai World Expo opens on May 1, conspicuously absent from the festivities will be the residents of Shanghai who have lost their homes, businesses, and freedom to exercise their rights in the government’s drive to bring its ambitious plans for (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing April 20-26, 2010

April 27, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing Weekly April 20-26, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Hearing Held Regarding License Revocation for Two Human Rights Lawyers: On April 22, human rights lawyers Liu Wei (刘巍) and Tang Jitian (唐吉田) attended a hearing concerning the proposed (read more…)

Three Fujian Digital Activists Convicted as Thousands Gather in Landmark Protest

April 16, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- April 16, 2010) Fujian activists Fan Yanqiong (范燕琼), Wu Huaying (吴华英), and You Jingyou (游精佑) were convicted of “slander” today for posting articles and video online urging government officials to investigate the alleged rape and murder of a young woman. Fan, who is seriously ill, was (read more…)

Submission to UN on Hu Jia – April 9, 2010

April 9, 2010 Comments Off

Questionnaire to be Completed by Persons Alleging Arbitrary Arrest or Detention of Human Rights Defender, PRC Citizen Hu Jia To: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention I. IDENTITY 1. Family name: Hu 2. First name: Jia 3. Sex: Male 4. Birth date or age (at the time of detention): (read more…)

Chinese Government Must Release Critically Ill Activist Hu Jia on Humanitarian Grounds

April 8, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- April 8, 2010) According to his wife, Zeng Jinyan (曾金燕), imprisoned human rights activist Hu Jia (胡佳) may be suffering from liver cancer. Zeng, who has applied to prison officials in Beijing for Hu’s release on medical parole, describes in documents obtained by CHRD how Hu’s (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing March 23-30, 2010

March 30, 2010 Comments Off

To download this week’s edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here China Human Rights Briefing March 23-30, 2010 Highlights CHRD Website Hacked on Heels of Google, Go Daddy Statements: CHRD’s Chinese-language website, www.crd-net.org, was targeted for the second time this year by a series of directed denial (read more…)

Following Major Announcements by Google and Go Daddy Regarding China Services, Hackers Strike Chinese Human Rights Defenders Website

March 30, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, March 29, 2010) CHRD’s Chinese-language website, https://www.nchrd.org, has been rendered inaccessible for more than four days by a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, the worst such attacks in the site’s history. Hackers launched attacks against servers hosting the site beginning March 25, and as of (read more…)

China Human Rights Yearbook 2009

March 24, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Yearbook 2009 The year 2009 concluded on a grim note for human rights advocates in China: by sentencing dissident intellectual Liu Xiaobo to an 11-year prison term, the government signaled a harsher attitude towards those seeking to promote human rights than has been the case for some (read more…)