In the Press | Chinese Human Rights Defenders

Winter Olympics 2022 Host Candidates China, Kazakhstan’s Human Rights Records Draw Scrutiny, Concern

August 6, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by International Business Times on July 30, 2015 Regardless of whether the International Olympic Committee selects Beijing or Almaty, Kazakhstan, Friday at the 128th IOC Congress in Malaysia, one thing is certain: A country with a terrible human rights record will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. An event that (read more…)

Beijing must not win 2022 Winter Olympics bid, say human rights activists

August 6, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by The Guardian on July 29, 2015 Xinhua, China’s official news agency, this week described its bid, which is widely seen as the favourite, as the “safe choice”. “Beijing is one of the world’s top destinations for tourism and business with world-class hotels and services,” it said in an editorial. (read more…)

Activist in Bid to Find Whereabouts of Detained Chinese Rights Lawyer Wang Yu

August 6, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on July 27, 2015 A Chinese lawyer has filed a formal information request to police in the northern city of Tianjin in a bid to find out the whereabouts of his lawyer, detained rights attorney Wang Yu, who has been held at an unknown location since the start (read more…)

3 activists put back on trial in China

August 6, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by The New York Times on July 25, 2015 BEIJING — The trial of three prominent rights campaigners on charges of inciting subversion continued Friday in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, amid a crackdown on human-rights lawyers that has drawn international condemnation. The proceedings against the three, Tang (read more…)

Trial of Chinese Rights Campaigners on Subversion Charges Continues

July 30, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by The New York Times on July 24, 2015 BEIJING — The trial of three prominent rights campaigners, including a lawyer, on charges of inciting subversion continued on Friday in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, amid a sweeping crackdown on human rights lawyers that has drawn international condemnation. (read more…)

China Tries Activist Who Supported Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement

July 24, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on July 23, 2015 An activist from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong stood trial on Thursday for subversion after he showed online support for last year’s pro-democracy Occupy Central movement in neighboring Hong Kong. Ye Xiaozheng, known online by his nickname Humian Yizhou (“A boat on the lake”), stood trial (read more…)

HK lawyers launch petition in support of China activists

July 24, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by Hong Kong Economic Journal on July 20, 2015 Hong Kong’s legal professionals have launched a global signature campaign to express support for the dozens of mainland human rights activists and lawyers who had been detained by Chinese authorities recently. At least 500 members of the local legal (read more…)

China is using televised confessions to shame detained lawyers, journalists, and activists

July 17, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by Quartz on July 15, 2015 Over the past weekend, China’s police force began an unprecedented crackdown on human rights lawyers and others. The state media swung into action, too. On Sunday morning (July 12), national broadcaster CCTV aired a 10-minute video showing the confessions of a recently detained lawyer and two employees (read more…)

China accuses human rights lawyers, activists of inciting ‘mob rule’

July 17, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by Christian Science Monitor on July 14, 2015 At least 24 human rights lawyers and activists have been detained or went missing in China since last Thursday, Amnesty International reports. As the government continues its nationwide crackdown on civil disobedience, authorities have targeted over 100 lawyers and human rights activists for questioning and (read more…)

About 50 human rights lawyers and law firm staff held in Chinese police crackdown

July 17, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by South China Morning Post on July 11, 2015 Mainland police have launched a large-scale, unprecedented crackdown on human rights lawyers in the past two days – detaining dozens of lawyers and law firm staff and searching some of their homes and offices, while other people have disappeared, fellow (read more…)

Chinese Authorities Detain and Denounce Rights Lawyers

July 17, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by The New York Times on July 11, 2015 HONG KONG — At least five Chinese lawyers from a firm that specialized in rights cases have been detained by the police in Beijing and accused of running a criminal syndicate to smear the Communist Party and “create social chaos” through (read more…)

Chinese rights lawyers and staff of law firm missing as police search office

July 17, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by South China Morning Post on July 10, 2015 At least five employees of a Beijing law firm – including three lawyers – have gone missing, with some taken away by either police or unidentified men and another disappearing after reporting that her home was being broken into, their (read more…)