Hong Kong (CNN) — Two Chinese activists held without trial for the past two years are expected to appear before a judge in a closed doors hearing on Friday as the ruling Communist Party ramps up its effort to dismantle what remains of the country’s civil society.
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN — The arrest of Chinese human rights lawyer Lu Siwei in Laos late last month highlights the risks Chinese dissidents face when they flee China through Southeast Asia. Despite his holding valid visas for Laos and the United States and a valid Chinese passport, Laotian police arrested Lu while (read more…)
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BANGKOK (AP) — When Gao Peng landed in Thailand on July 3, he was not expecting to be accused of making bomb threats, to be put on an EU travel blacklist, or to see his mother and 16-year-old sister detained and threatened with deportation back to China.
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Australian human rights activist Drew Pavlou claims that a $50,000 Bitcoin bounty was placed on his mother by the Chinese Communist Party.
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Xu Zhiyong’s dream is for China to become a democratic country that is “beautiful, free, fair and happy.” It is a simple wish, yet in the eyes of the authorities, his vision is dangerous and subversive. The 50-year-old human rights lawyer and champion of social equality was sentenced to 14 years in jail earlier (read more…)
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Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers, including one who had called for leader Xi Jinping to resign, have been jailed for more than 10 years, an advocacy group and one of the men’s wives said.
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“厦门聚会案”的两位主要被告丁家喜跟许志永在被关押超过三年后，週一被山东省一个法院以“顛復国家政权罪”判处12年与14年的刑期。家属痛批中国当局的作法，而专家也说，这显示任何在中国提倡自由与民主的人，都会受到严厉的打击。
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SINGAPORE—A Chinese court sentenced two of the country’s most prominent human-rights activists to prison terms of more than a decade each for subversion, slamming the door on an era of activism that briefly carved out space for liberal values in the authoritarian country.
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In China, life has returned to something like the pre-covid normal. You no longer need to show a green health QR code to enter public places or swab your throat every other day for mandatory PCR testing, and lockdowns are a thing of the past. But some of the people (read more…)
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Advocates of Huang Xueqin accuse authorities of ‘trying to exert mental pressure and physical torture’
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Experts say Chinese authorities want to send the message that critical voices deemed a threat to the regime will be erased
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‘Blank Paper movement’ decrying government policies rekindles dissent after Xi Jinping’s decade of iron-fisted crackdowns
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