China Human Rights Briefing May 18-24, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Beijing Tax Officials Launch New Investigation into Aizhixing: Prominent Beijing-based HIV/AIDS NGO Aizhixing has once again been targeted for inspection by Beijing tax officials. On the morning of May 19, (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly May 11-17, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Beijing Writer and Activist Wang Debang Interrogated, Home Searched: Beijing police searched the home of Beijing-based writer and human rights activist Wang Debang (王德邦) on May 11, confiscating a (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing May 4-10, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Beijing Human Rights Lawyers Have Licenses Revoked: Beijing human rights lawyers Tang Jitian (唐吉田) and Liu Wei (刘巍) were informed on the morning of May 7 that the Beijing Bureau (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly April 27- May 3, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Detentions, Harassment Continue as World Expo Opens: As CHRD reported in an April 28 press release, officials in Shanghai and around the country have been detaining, harassing, (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly April 20-26, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Hearing Held Regarding License Revocation for Two Human Rights Lawyers: On April 22, human rights lawyers Liu Wei (刘巍) and Tang Jitian (唐吉田) attended a hearing concerning the proposed (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly April 13-19, 2010 Please click here for a pdf version Highlights Internet Activists Sentenced for Online Posting: Three internet activists from Fujian Province were convicted of “slander” and sentenced to between one and two years of imprisonment on April 16. The three were punished for (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly March 31-April 6, 2010 To download this week’s edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights CHRD’s website still inaccessible, temporary website also attacked: CHRD’s Chinese-language website, www.crd-net.org, remains inaccessible following directed denial of service (DDoS) attacks which began on March 25. (read more…)
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To download this week’s edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here China Human Rights Briefing March 23-30, 2010 Highlights CHRD Website Hacked on Heels of Google, Go Daddy Statements: CHRD’s Chinese-language website, www.crd-net.org, was targeted for the second time this year by a series of directed denial (read more…)
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To download this week’s edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here China Human Rights Briefing March 16-22, 2010 Highlights Surprising those who were expecting a verdict to be issued, the Mawei District Court in Fuzhou sent the case against rights activists Fan Yanqiong (范燕琼), Wu Huaying (吴华英), (read more…)
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To download this week’s edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here China Human Rights Briefing March 9-15, 2010 Highlights: CHRD learned this week that the Mawei District Court in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province will announce a verdict in the case against activists Fan Yanqiong (范燕琼), Wu Huaying (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing March 2-8, 2010 Highlights Harassment of Sensitive Individuals Continues as Government Meetings Begin: CHRD has documented more than 60 cases of individuals around the country harassed, detained, or subjected to restrictions on their movement by officials during the “Two Meetings” of the National People’s Congress and (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing February 26- March 1, 2010 Headlines Jilin Government Website Details Targeting of Political Publications during “Anti-Pornography” Campaign Hubei Teachers’ Organizer Released from RTL, Compensated after 3 Months of Detention Hunger Strike by Death Row Inmates Underlines Use of Torture, Failure of Courts Officials Increase Harassment of (read more…)
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