Jailed Writer Li Hong’s Health Rapidly Deteriorating Zhejiang authorities must release Li Hong for medical treatment (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, December 11, 2007) – Jailed Zhejiang writer and poet, Li Hong’s (力虹) health has been rapidly deteriorating. Shortly after Li had started serving a 6-year prison term early this year, (read more…)
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Shanghai Activist Gong Haoming Detained for Linking Olympics to Human Rights Authorities’ Refusal of Access to Lawyer Raises Fear of Torture (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, December 3, 2007) — Gong Haoming (龚浩明), a Shanghai petitioner/activist, has been detained incommunicado since November 8, 2007. His family and lawyer, who were denied (read more…)
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Shandong Officials Continue Harassing Wife of Jailed Human Rights Defender Authorities must end illegal surveillance of Yuan Weijing (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, November 24, 2007)—Yuan Weijing (袁伟静 ), wife of imprisoned human rights defender, Chen Guangcheng (陈光诚 ), continues to be subjected to house arrest, surveillance, and restrictions of her (read more…)
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Human Rights Defender Liu Jie Sentenced to Re-Education through Labor Chinese authorities must stop using Re-Education through Labor camps and arbitrary detention to penalize activists (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, November 12, 2007) – Veteran rural campaigner and human rights activist, Liu Jie (刘杰), 55 years old, of Beian City, Heilongjiang (read more…)
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Beijing Police Prevented Hundreds from Attending Memorial for Dissident Intellectual Government must change habit of crackdown during “sensitive” times/events (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, November 4, 2007) – Yesterday, apparently under an order from the highest authorities, large contingents of policemen were mobilized to block mourners from attending a memorial service (read more…)
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Questionnaire completed by Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Alleging Torture of Chinese human rights lawyer Li Heping To: Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Special Representative of the UN General Secretary on Human Rights Defenders Special Rapporteur on the Independence of (read more…)
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Police Detain Organizers of Open Letter to 17th Party Congress Government must fulfil pledge to protect human rights defenders (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, October 22 , 2007)- Liu Jie (刘杰), of Beian City, Heilongjiang Province, was detained on October 13 for suspicion of “gathering crowds to disturb social order.” She (read more…)
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Pre-Congress Crackdown Raises Fear for Olympics The government must reverse its policy of intimidating and terrorizing dissent (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, October 15, 2007) – The 17th Communist Party Congress opens today in Beijing in the wake of a two-month crackdown. Since August, authorities have closed down websites, tightened surveillance (read more…)
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Questionnaire completed by wife, Alleging Arbitrary Arrest and Detention of Lü Gengsong To: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention I. IDENTITY 1. Family name: Lü 2. First name: Gengsong 3. Sex Male 4. Birth date or age (at the time of detention): January 7, 1956 5. Nationality/Nationalities: People’s Republic (read more…)
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Beijing Police Suspected of Abduction and Torture of Human Rights Lawyer Li Heping Chinese government must investigate accusations, honoring its obligation to Torture Convention (Beijing, October 1, 2007) – On September 29, Beijing-based human rights lawyer, Li Heping (李和平), was assaulted by unidentified men, believed to be police from the (read more…)
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Heilongjiang Activist Yang Chunlin Arrested for Organizing Open-Letter Campaign: “We Want Human Rights, not the Olympics” (Heilongjiang, August 31, 2007) – Yang Chunlin (杨春林), a resident of Jiamusi City (佳木斯市), Heilongjiang Province, was detained on July 6 and formally arrested on suspicion of “subversion of state power” on August 3. (read more…)
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Pro-democracy Activist Detained for “Inciting Subversion” Government must end criminalization of free speech (Hangzhou, August 25, 2007) – Police have notified the family of Hangzhou-based activist Lu Gengsong of his detention on suspicion of “inciting subversion of the state power” and “illegal possession of state secrets” on 24 August 2007. (read more…)
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