Originally published by Deutsche Welle on July 10, 2017 Two years after China’s unprecedented crackdown on human rights lawyers, criticism abounds that authorities appear resolute and relentless in their efforts to suppress civil society. But activists say they won’t give up. Chen Guiqiu hasn’t seen her husband, Xie Yang, for two (read more…)
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Originally published by Voice of America on July 7, 2017 This Sunday marks two years since China began a sweeping crackdown on human rights lawyers, sparking an international outcry about the mistreatment of detainees in custody. The release two months ago of human rights lawyer Li Heping is one case (read more…)
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Originally published by AP on July 7, 2017 BEIJING – Veteran Chinese labor activist Liu Xiaoming has been sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison on the charge of inciting subversion of state power after he published his personal account of the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, rights groups reported (read more…)
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Originally published by Reuters on July 7, 2017 HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Chinese court on Friday jailed a labor activist for 4-1/2 years following more than two years in detention on a subversion charge over a published account of the Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989. Police in the (read more…)
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Originally published by Jurist on June 29, 2017 [JURIST] In the 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report[report, PDF] released on Tuesday, the US State Department [official website] downgraded China to Tier 3, which is the lowest tier for human trafficking. Tier 3 represents “countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards (read more…)
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Originally published by The News & Advance on June 29, 2017 On Wednesday, Liberty University student Chongyu Xia took his fight for his father’s freedom to the United States government. The rising junior, fighting for the release of his father, Xia Lin, a human rights lawyer currently imprisoned in China, spoke (read more…)
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Originally published by The Sherbrooke Times on June 28, 2017 Three chinese activists arrested in may as they were investigating the working conditions in factories producing shoes for the line Ivanka Trump have been released on bail, announced on Wednesday that the association China Labor Watch. The three men – Hua Haifeng, (read more…)
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Originally published by Reuters on June 5, 2017 (Refiles this May 25 story to add “Chinese” to advocacy group’s name in paragraph 13.) By Christian Shepherd Chinese activists say they fear intensified state surveillance after a draft law seeking to legitimize monitoring of suspects and raid premises was announced last (read more…)
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Originally published by Nikkei Asian Review on June 5, 2017 HONG KONG — Although under the sovereignty of China, Hong Kong continues to keep the light burning in commemorating the Communist government’s brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protesters on June 4, 1989, when hundreds were killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The (read more…)
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Originally published by SCMP on June 2, 2017 “Great progress” has been achieved in promoting human rights in Xinjiang under Communist Party rule, the Chinese government said in a white paper issued on Thursday, despite growing criticism among rights and exile groups who accuse Beijing of enforcing sweeping social control (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on June 22, 2017 Yangjindolma, an ethnic Mongolian woman from China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia, has lodged a complaint against the local government after she was tortured and held in manacles during a 15-day detention by Chinese police. Yangjindolma said she was detained May (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on May 31, 2017 Twenty-eight years after People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops put an end to weeks of student-led pro-democracy protests on Tiananmen Square with tanks and machine guns, more than 20 dissidents remain in jail for campaigning over the massacre, rights activists said (read more…)
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