Alerts & Statements | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

Chinese Court Sends to Jail Activist and “Jasmine Crackdown” Detainee Wang Lihong

September 12, 2011 Comments Off

Chinese Court Sends to Jail Activist and “Jasmine Crackdown” Detainee Wang Lihong (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, September 9, 2011) Beijing-based human rights defender and democracy activist, Wang Lihong (王荔蕻), was convicted of “creating a disturbance” and sentenced to nine months in prison this morning by the Chaoyang District People’s Court (read more…)

CHRD Urges Accountability & Lifting of Press Restrictions

August 3, 2011 Comments Off

The Chinese Government Must Respect Human Rights in Handling the Wenzhou Train Crash (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, August 3, 2011) The Chinese government’s handling of the Wenzhou high-speed railway crash on July 23 has been marked by a profound lack of respect for human life and other human rights abuses, (read more…)

U.S. Must Voice Concerns over China’s Assault on Human Rights Lawyers During the Upcoming Legal Experts Dialogue with China

June 7, 2011 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, June 7, 2011) On June 8-9, officials and legal experts from the United States and China will meet in Washington, D.C. for the U.S.-China Legal Experts Dialogue (LED). The U.S. Department of State publicly announced the dates of the LED only yesterday in a terse media (read more…)

Twenty-Two Years after Tiananmen Massacre, Worst Repression in a Generation

June 2, 2011 Comments Off

No Justice for Past Atrocities, No Guarantee of Human Rights (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, June 2, 2011) – As the world watches and reacts to the events of the Arab Spring unfolding across the Middle East and North Africa, commentators are drawing parallels to the Chinese pro-democracy movement of (read more…)

U.S. Must Underscore Importance of Human Rights Issues at Strategic and Economic Dialogue

May 6, 2011 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, May 6, 2011) Officials from the U.S. and Chinese governments will meet to discuss a range of issues during the third U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED), which will be held in Washington, D.C. on May 9 and 10. Following last week’s U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue (read more…)

Human Rights Lawyer Li Fangping Abducted in Beijing, Whereabouts Unknown

April 29, 2011 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 29, 2011) Around 5 pm local time on April 29, Beijing-based human rights lawyer Li Fangping (李方平) was kidnapped by unidentified individuals outside the offices of the health rights NGO Beijing Yirenping Center, of which he is a legal advisor. Li was able to speak (read more…)

U.S. Must Give Teeth to Human Rights Dialogue with Chinese Government

April 26, 2011 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 26, 2011) The two-day U.S.-China human rights dialogue will convene tomorrow in Beijing, despite worries by human rights activists about the hazards of repeating an exercise which allows both governments to claim credit for making efforts to improve human rights without producing any meaningful reforms. (read more…)

Activist Ni Yulan Becomes Latest Victim of “Jasmine” Crackdown

April 14, 2011 Comments Off

Former Lawyer, Handicapped from Torture, is Criminally Detained (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 14, 2011) Housing rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) has been criminally detained in Beijing for “creating a disturbance,” CHRD learned today. No information is currently available regarding the fate of her husband Dong (read more…)

Escalating Crackdown Following Call for “Jasmine Revolution” in China

March 31, 2011 Comments Off

International Community Must Take Strong and Clear Stance Condemning Rights Violations by the Chinese Government (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, March 31, 2011) – The Chinese government has criminally detained a total of 26 individuals, disappeared more than 30, and put more than 200 under soft detention since mid-February after anonymous (read more…)

Honoring Chinese Women Human Rights Defenders

March 8, 2011 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, March 8, 2011) International Women’s Day presents an opportunity to recognize both the important role that women play in the Chinese rights defense (weiquan) movement as well as the persecution faced by Chinese women either as a result of their activism, their relationship to other activists, (read more…)

A Quiet Crackdown, Yet Likely the Harshest in Recent Years

February 25, 2011 Comments Off

Five Confirmed Criminally Detained in China (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, February 25, 2011) Only a few days after police began targeting human rights defenders across the country in response to anonymous calls for “Jasmine Revolution” protests, signs are emerging to indicate that the current crackdown may be one of the (read more…)

CHRD Condemns Preemptive Strike against Protests

February 21, 2011 Comments Off

Chinese Government Must Respect Freedoms of Assembly, Expression (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, February 21, 2010) – After anonymous calls for protests in support of pro-democracy movements in the Middle East and protection for human rights appeared online in the past week, Chinese officials responded with a sweeping crackdown on human (read more…)