Ji Sizun 纪斯尊 (deceased) Previously under medical watch* Crime: Gathering a crowd to disrupt order of a public place & picking quarrels and provoking troubles Length of Punishment: 4.5 years Court: Minhou County People’s Court, Fujian Province Trial Date: December 15, 2015 Sentencing Date: April 18, 2016 Dates of Detention/Arrest: (read more…)
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Activist Cao Shunli’s death on March 14, 2014, showed the lengths that China’s leaders are willing to go to suppress civil society voices. Cao Shunli unwaveringly pursued the goal to make use of international human rights mechanisms to improve rights conditions in China. As she said: “In China, those involved (read more…)
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Yang Tongyan (pen name: Yang Tianshui, 杨天水) is a dissident writer and member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, and has published numerous political essays online. Since 2006, Tang has been serving another sentence in Nanjing Prison for “subversion of state power” for his role in organizing the China Democracy (read more…)
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Liu Xiaobo, the Beijing-based writer, intellectual, dissident, and human rights activist, died on July 13, 2017, not long after being issued medical parole, and over eight-and-a-half years into an 11-year prison sentence. In October 2010, the imprisoned Liu became the first Chinese citizen awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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