Originally published by The Wall Street Journal on July 31, 2015 Forget snow, mountains and earmuffs: The must-have for a 2022 Winter Olympic bid is a dodgy attitude about human rights. Hurray! That, at least, is how critics see it (without the “hurray”). On Friday the International Olympic Committee will pick (read more…)
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Originally published by Los Angeles Times on July 31, 2015 Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee announced Friday, making the Chinese capital the first city to host both a Summer and Winter Games. Members of the IOC, meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, announced the decision after (read more…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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