Originally published by AFP on September 11, 2017 A Taiwanese democracy activist pleaded guilty Monday to charges of attempting to subvert Chinese government power during a trial in China that his wife called a “political show” and further soured cross-strait ties. Lee Ming-cheh appeared alongside a Chinese co-defendant named Peng (read more…)
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Originally published by Jurist on September 6, 2017 [JURIST] Four UN human rights experts on Tuesday called on [press release] China to release a prominent human rights lawyer who has been detained since November 2016. The lawyer, Jiang Tianyong, is being tried for inciting subversion of the state’s power. The UN’s call (read more…)
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Originally published by Jurist on September 6, 2017 [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Tuesday condemned [report] both China’s oppression of critics of the nation’s human rights record and the UN’s failure to stop such conduct. The report alleges that, “China has worked consistently and often aggressively to silence criticism of its (read more…)
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Originally published by VOA on August 29, 2017 Ahead of Wednesday’s International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance, rights groups are calling on China to end its “self-legalized” practice of involuntary disappearances of human rights defenders and their family members, including Liu Xia, the widow of the late Nobel (read more…)
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Originally published by HKFP on August 28, 2017 Rights watch website founder Liu Feiyue may face an additional charge of “leaking state secrets,” after a local security bureau made a submission stating it had sufficient evidence to warrant the charge, according to NGO Amnesty International. Liu is currently being held for (read more…)
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Originally published by Jurist on August 22, 2017 [JURIST] Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong confessed at a trial on Tuesday to attempting to overthrow the Chinese government. Jiang has been in custody since November of last year. At the trial, he stated [NYT report] that Western laws led him to attempt (read more…)
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Originally published by AP on August 22, 2017 BEIJING (AP) — A prominent Chinese human rights campaigner pleaded guilty to inciting subversion of state power on Tuesday, saying he had used social media to inspire distrust in the Chinese government, in the latest trial in a sweeping crackdown on independent (read more…)
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Originally published by Guardian on August 22, 2017 Human rights activists have denounced as a sham the trial of a leading Chinese civil rights lawyer who authorities claim tried to topple China’s one-party state. Jiang Tianyong, 46, was put on trial in the central city of Changsha on Tuesday morning having vanished (read more…)
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Originally published by AP on August 22, 2017 BEIJING (AP) — A prominent Chinese human rights campaigner accused of inciting subversion of state power said Tuesday that he had used social media to inspire distrust in the Chinese government, in the latest trial in a sweeping crackdown on independent lawyers (read more…)
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Originally published by Guardian on August 19, 2017 The world’s oldest publishing house, Cambridge University Press, has been accused of being an accomplice to the Communist party’s bid to whitewash Chinese history after it agreed to purge hundreds of politically-sensitive articles from its Chinese website at the behest of Beijing’s censors. (read more…)
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Originally published by AP on August 14, 2017 A prominent activist who called himself the Ultra Vulgar Butcher as he put pressure on local Chinese officials he said had done wrong stood trial Monday accused of subverting state power, a court confirmed. Wu Gan’s one-day trial took place and the verdict will be announced (read more…)
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Originally published by AFP on August 3, 2017 China’s government is responsible for the “enforced disappearance” of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo’s widow, her lawyer said on Wednesday in a formal complaint. Beijing faced a global backlash for its treatment of Liu when he died of liver cancer last month. Liu Xia (read more…)
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