China Human Rights Briefing August 3-9, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Updates on Detentions and Disappearances Related to the “Jasmine Revolution” Crackdown: The trial for Beijing rights activist Wang Lihong (王荔蕻), for “creating a disturbance,” will begin on August 12 at (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing July 27-August 2, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Updates on Detentions and Disappearances Related to the “Jasmine Revolution” Crackdown: The case against Beijing activist Wang Lihong (王荔蕻) is expected to go to trial soon, on the charge (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing July 20-26, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Updates on Detentions and Disappearances Related to the “Jasmine Revolution” Crackdown: CHRD has learned that, around July 13, the case against lawyer Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) and her husband, Dong Jiqin (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing July 13-19, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Updates on Detentions and Disappearances Related to the “Jasmine Revolution” Crackdown: CHRD has learned the case against Wang Lihong (王荔蕻), the Beijing-based activist charged with “gathering a crowd to disrupt (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing July 7-12, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Updates on Detentions and Disappearances Related to the “Jasmine Revolution” Crackdown: On June 18, the case against Beijing-based rights activist Wang Lihong (王荔蕻), for “gathering a crowd to disrupt traffic (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing June 29-July 6, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Guangxi Lawyer Yang Zaixin Arrested: Rights Defense Lawyer Yang Zaixin (杨在新), who has been held at the Beihai City Detention Center in Guangxi Province since June 14 on suspicion (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing June 22-28, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Updates on Detentions and Disappearances Related to the “Jasmine Revolution” Crackdown: Ai Weiwei (艾未未), the Beijing-based artist and activist, and several of his associates were released last week after going (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing June 16-21, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Activist Yao Lifa Goes Missing After Increased Harassment: CHRD has learned that democracy activist Yao Lifa (姚立法), from Qianjiang City, Hubei Province, went missing on June 20. Yao, who has (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing June 8-15, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Updates on Detentions and Disappearances Related to the “Jasmine Revolution” Crackdown: The Xicheng District Procuratorate recently approved the arrest of Dong Jiqin (董继勤), the husband of rights defense lawyer (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing June 1-7, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Chinese Activists, Dissidents Face Harassment Around June Fourth Anniversary: CHRD documented a wave of police activities throughout China this week intended to monitor, intimidate, and restrict the movement of rights (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing May 26-May 31, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights First Conviction of “Jasmine Revolution” Detainee: After a quick hearing, Sichuan-based rights activist Li Shuangde (李双德) was sentenced on June 1 to four months and fined 20,000 RMB for (read more…)
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China Human Rights Weekly Briefing May 18-25, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights 10-Year Sentence for “Inciting Subversion” Issued to Lü Jiaping: CHRD has learned that 70-year-old dissident and military scholar Lü Jiaping (吕加平) was handed a severe 10-year sentence on May (read more…)
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