Originally published by The Guardian on August 3, 2016 A prominent Christian church leader has become the latest to be jailed by Chinese courts during a week of activist trials and public confessions that have shocked international observers. Hu Shigen, a leader of an underground church movement, was found guilty of (read more…)
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Originally published by South China Morning Post on July 23, 2016 A petitioner who had been forcibly hospitalised in psychiatric hospitals was declared mentally fit before being sentenced and jailed for blackmailing government officials, according to mainland media. Petitioner Xu Xueling, 53, was sentenced to four years in jail for “picking (read more…)
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Originally published by Hong Kong Free Press on July 23, 2016 A petitioner who was sent to psychiatric hospitals has been sentenced to four years in prison for taking money from stability maintenance personnel, The Paper reported. Xu Xueling, a 53 year old petitioner, demanded RMB 37,700 (HK$43,818) from government staff responsible for “stability (read more…)
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Originally published by Shanghaiist on July 28, 2016 The South China Morning Post is stuck between a rock and a hard place as critics have begun to question the (once) venerable newspaper’s peculiar interview with a young activist who had been detained by Chinese authorities for over a year. The activist (read more…)
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Originally published by Hong Kong Free Press on July 22, 2016 Chinese authorities have issued a formal arrest notice for citizen journalist Lu Yuyu after detaining him for five weeks, Chinese news outlet Weiquanwang reported on Thursday. Lu is founder of the blog “Not News”, which keeps track of and reports on mass demonstrations in China (read more…)
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Originally published by Bangkok Post on July 21, 2016 HONG KONG – A trove of newly published documents belonging to a purged Chinese leader has been launched at Hong Kong’s book fair, despite fears Beijing is tightening freedom of expression in the city. Former premier and Communist Party general secretary Zhao Ziyang (read more…)
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Originally published by Tiroler Tageszeitung Online on July 8, 2016 Peking (APA/dpa) – Zum Jahrestag des Beginns der Verfolgungswelle gegen Bürgerrechtsanwälte in China haben Menschenrechtsorganisationen die Freilassung der Inhaftierten gefordert. Noch immer seien rund 20 Anwälte, Mitarbeiter und Aktivisten in Haft. Ihnen würden grundlegende Rechte verwehrt, kritisierten Menschenrechtler und Diplomaten am (read more…)
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Originally published by Voice of America on July 8, 2016 After a year-long detention, Zhao Wei, a 24-year-old assistant to a prominent lawyer, was released Thursday after she had confessed her crimes and had shown a good attitude, according to police and her lawyer. “I was too simple-minded. I didn’t know (read more…)
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Originally published by Latin American Herald Tribune on July 5, 2016 The families of several lawyers detained in China for nearly a year appealed Monday before the Supreme People’s Procuratorate in Beijing over the violation of their human rights, the nonprofit Chinese Human Rights Defenders reported. The families of the lawyers (read more…)
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Originally published by Voice of America on July 5, 2016 WASHINGTON— A Hong Kong group advocating for workers’ rights in mainland China says the country has taken a “step forward” by passing a new law to regulate overseas nongovernmental organizations. Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin is one of the overseas NGOs covered by (read more…)
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Originally published by Hong Kong Free Press on June 27, 2016 Two citizen journalists keeping track of protests in China have been detained for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Lu Yuyu and his girlfriend Li Tingyu run “Not News,” which has been reporting and distributing news of mass demonstrations in China via Twitter, Blogspot, (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on June 23, 2016 Detained Guangdong activist Huang Yan, a former torture victim who spoke out publicly in support of rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, is being denied treatment for spreading ovarian cancer in a police-run detention center, her relatives and rights groups said. Huang was (read more…)
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