Originally published by Sky News on September 22, 2016 A human rights lawyer has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a court in China. Xia Lin, whose clients included the famous Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, was jailed by the Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court after earlier being (read more…)
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Originally published by Washington Post on September 22, 2016 BEIJING — A Chinese lawyer who defended activists and others in politically sensitive cases was convicted of fraud and given 12 years in prison Thursday, his lawyers said. It is the harshest sentence to date in the relentless crackdown on China’s legal community. (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on September 22, 2016 Human rights groups have accused Beijing of ramping up its assault on civil rights activists after a respected lawyer was jailed for 12 years on what they claim were trumped-up charges. Xia Lin, a 46-year-old lawyer whose clients have included dissident artist (read more…)
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Originally published by Associate Press on September 22, 2016 BEIJING – A Chinese court has sentenced a lawyer who defended activists and others in sensitive cases to 12 years in prison on fraud charges. Xia Lin was sentenced Thursday by the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court, nearly two years after being (read more…)
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Originally published by DPA International on September 22, 2016 Beijing (dpa) – A Beijing court on Thursday jailed a prominent lawyer for 12 years on fraud charges, the latest verdict in China’s ongoing crackdown on activists and rights lawyers. Xia Lin pled not guilty and his supporters said the case was another (read more…)
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Originally published by HKFP on September 22, 2016 A Xinjiang court has delayed an appeal by writer and activist Zhang Haitao over his 19-year prison sentence. Zhang was jailed in January for “inciting subversion of state power” after writing articles critical of the government. The time limit for handling his case was previously extended until (read more…)
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Originally published by IRIN on September 21, 2016 The world’s strongest storm of the year slammed into China last week, just as the country was recovering from severe flooding that the government said left about 1,000 people dead. In many nations, this would prompt a deluge of donations to disaster response, (read more…)
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Originally published by DPA International on September 1, 2016 Beijing (dpa) – China’s first national charity law came into effect Thursday in a move designed to encourage giving and ease restrictions on domestic charities, while at the same time tighten control of the sector, local media reported. The law relaxes registration (read more…)
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Originally published by Breitbart News on September 9, 2016 Barack Obama held “candid” talks with Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping during the G20 Summit, the White House said Saturday, talks which were said to have briefly touched on the topic of human rights. But that didn’t seem to help China’s (read more…)
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Originally published by Washington Post on September 10, 2016 For China’s President Xi Jinping, the recently concluded summit of G-20 leaders was a resounding success, a chance to strut his stuff on the world stage and underline his nation’s ever-growing global leadership. But for some Chinese people it has been a (read more…)
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Originally published by Foreign Policy on September 6, 2016 On Sept. 4 and 5, heads of 20 of the world’s wealthiest nations convened in the southern Chinese city of Hangzhou for the annual G-20 summit. It marked China’s first time as host of the major international event, which it did with the (read more…)
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Originally published by Daily Caller on September 7, 2016 China says its G20 Summit was a huge victory, but to achieve success, it launched an intense campaign to silence potential troublemakers. China supposedly detained journalists, put dissidents under house arrest, sent city residents away, and implemented extreme censorship protocols to ensure the summit (read more…)
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