Originally published by Nikkei Asian Review on February 16, 2017 HONG KONG — China is growing less tolerant of basic human rights under the reign of President Xi Jinping. The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, or CHRD, warned that a crackdown on human rights activists is intensifying, with the government increasingly (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on February 16, 2017 The number of people detained and otherwise persecuted by the ruling Chinese Communist Party for “political crimes” rose last year, as the administration of President Xi Jinping brought a draconian suite of new laws limit people’s right to freedom of expression, association (read more…)
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Originally published by Jurist on February 16, 2017 [JURIST] The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) [advocacy website] released its annual report [text, PDF] on Thursday, highlighting intensified crackdowns on human rights defenders in China. According to the CHRD report, human rights activities are being criminalized as “‘political’ threats to ‘national security.’” (read more…)
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Originally published by HKFP on January 25, 2017 The EU ambassador to Beijing said Wednesday that Europe was concerned about the case of detained Chinese lawyer Xie Yang, who rights groups say has been tortured by police. Chinese President Xi Jinping has overseen a tightening of controls on civil society since assuming (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on January 24, 2017 Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have sent nine residents of the rebel village of Wukan to prison to begin serving sentences ranging from two to 10 years for their involvement in resistance to an armed police raid, without giving (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on January 24, 2017 A rights group on Tuesday called for the immediate release of detained Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang, detailing his lawyers’ reports of his torture in a police-run detention center in the central province of Hunan. Xie was subjected to confinement in a (read more…)
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Originally published by The New York Times on January 20, 2017 BEIJING — Perched unsteadily on a stack of plastic stools in an isolated room, Xie Yang, a Chinese lawyer, was encircled day and night by interrogators who blew smoke in his face, punched and kicked him, and threatened to turn him into (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on December 23, 2016 Chen Yunfei, a veteran rights activist in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan who was detained after visiting the grave of a Tiananmen massacre victim in 2015, will stand trial on Dec. 26 on public order charges following repeated delays (read more…)
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Originally published by Nikkei Asian Review on December 11, 2016 HONG KONG — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday received his Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end a civil war that had raged for more than half a century. The medal and honor was conferred to him in person (read more…)
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Originally published by The New York Times on November 30, 2016 HONG KONG — Three prominent Chinese rights activists appear to have been detained in recent weeks by the police, part of a continuing crackdown on groups operating outside the umbrella of the state, advocacy groups say. The men, Jiang Tianyong, Huang (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on November 30, 2016 Friends and family of a respected Christian attorney who has been missing for more than a week fear he may have fallen victim to Beijing’s campaign against human rights lawyers and now languishes in secret custody. Jin Bianling, the wife of 45-year-old rights (read more…)
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Originally published by HKFP on November 30, 2016 The founder of a Chinese citizen news site has been detained after police searched his home. Huang Qi is the third well-known rights defence figure in China to disappear or be detained in a fortnight, after the disappearances of lawyer Jiang Tianyong and citizen journalist Liu Feiyue, (read more…)
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