China Human Rights Briefing Weekly January 25-February 1, 2011 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Chang Ping Removed from Southern Media Group: Outspoken media figure Chang Ping has been asked to leave the Southern Media Group, CHRD learned this week. Chang, a columnist (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly January 19-24, 2011 To download this week’s edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Beijing Court to Hold New Hearing in Case against Artist and Activist Wu Yuren: On January 28, the Chaoyang District Court will hold a new hearing in (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly January 11-18, 2011 To download this edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights U.S. Must Deliver on Promise of Making Human Rights the Guiding Principle of its China Policy: In a statement this week, CHRD urged President Obama to send a (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly January 4-10, 2011 China Human Rights Briefing January 4-10, 2011 Highlight Hong Kong Activist and Legislator Szeto Wah Passes Away: On January 2, Hong Kong pro-democracy legislator and activist Szeto Wah (司徒华) passed away at the age of 79. Among those honoring his memory this (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly December 28, 2010 – January 3, 2011 To download this edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Children’s Rights and Food Safety Activist Zhao Lianhai Believed to Be Released: Zhao Lianhai (赵 连海), founder of the online advocacy group Kidney Stone (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly December 22-27, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here. Highlights Happy Birthday Liu Xiaobo: December 28 is the 55th birthday of Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), activist, intellectual and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. This is the third consecutive birthday Liu (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly December 14-21, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here. Highlights Unidentified Group Attacks Lawyer Zhang Kai on Beijing Road: Beijing human rights lawyer Zhang Kai (张凯) was driving on Beijing’s Third Ring Road the night of December 14 when (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly December 8-13, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Nobel Award Ceremony Marked by Empty Chair and Crackdown Domestically: As the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjørn Jagland symbolically placed the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize medal on (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly December 1-7, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights As Petitioners Mark Legal Publicity Day with Mass Gathering, Thousands Seized: The government-organized “Legal Publicity Day,” held annually on December 4 since 2001, has taken on special meaning for (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing November 24-30, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights 12 Years Later, Democracy Leader Qin Yongmin Released from Prison: Prominent democracy activist and human rights defender Qin Yongmin (秦永敏) was released from prison this week following 12 years of (read more…)
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To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here China Human Rights Briefing Weekly November 16-23, 2010 Highlights Little-Known Wuhan Activist Charged with “Subversion of State Power:” CHRD learned this week that Li Tie (李铁), a Wuhan City, Hubei Province-based democracy activist and online freelance writer, has (read more…)
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To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here China Human Rights Briefing Weekly November 10-15, 2010 Highlights Children’s Rights Advocate Zhao Lianhai Sentenced to Two and a Half Years in Prison: Zhao Lianhai (赵连海), founder of the website Kidney Stone Babies and a leading figure among (read more…)
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