Tan Zuoren’s Harsh Sentence Upheld by Sichuan High Court (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- June 9, 2010) The Sichuan Provincial High People’s Court announced this morning that it had upheld the judgment of activist and environmentalist Tan Zuoren (谭作人). Tan was convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” in February 2010 (read more…)
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Tiananmen Anniversary Marked by Harassment, Detentions, and Official Silence (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, June 3, 2010) On the eve of the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, the Chinese government continues to refuse to openly and truthfully address the events of June 4, 1989, and persists in its efforts to (read more…)
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Crackdown on Civil Society Continues (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, May 13, 2010) On the afternoon of May 11, officers from the National Security Unit under the Beijing Public Security Bureau (PSB) took freelance writer and human rights activist Wang Debang (王德邦) from his home in southwest Beijing and interrogated him (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, May 10, 2010) On May 13, the governments of China and the United States are set to hold the next round of talks in the U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue. These dialogues, which have been held on 12 previous occasions since 1989, are widely viewed as not (read more…)
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(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…)
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Hearing on Revocation of Lawyers’ Licenses Ends without Decision, Lawyers Condemn Baseless Punishment (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 22, 2010) -About 200 lawyers, activists and petitioners gathered outside of the building of the Beijing Bureau of Justice (BBJ) this morning in a show of strong support to human rights lawyers (read more…)
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Police Raid Home of Beijing Activist Gu Chuan as Pressure on Human Rights Defenders Increases (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- April 9, 2010) Plainclothes police officers seized writer and human rights activist Gu Chuan (古川) as he left his Beijing home this morning, taking him in for seven hours of interrogation. (read more…)
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(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…)
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(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…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- March 11, 2010) On March 10, Beijing police interrogated human rights defender Xie Qiang (谢强) for the second time in as many weeks. Nine days earlier, on March 1, police raided his home, seizing computers and personal property. Xie, a signatory to and promoter of Charter (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- February 26, 2010) CHRD has learned that three death row inmates are staging a hunger strike in a Jiangxi prison to draw attention to their convictions, which have been upheld despite a lack of evidence and shocking abuses perpetrated by police assigned to their case. Fang (read more…)
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