Originally published by Financial Times on March 16, 2015 China is sharply increasing its use of criminal prosecution as a tool for maintaining control in 2014, two reports have found, in a shift away from ad hoc measures preferred in the past. The past few years have seen a crackdown on (read more…)
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Originally published by The Telegraph on April 12, 2015 The families of five Chinese feminists detained by authorities for “picking quarrels” have called for their immediate release. The young women were detained on the eve of International Women’s Day on March 8, which they had planned to mark by distributing leaflets (read more…)
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Originally published by Open Democracy (blog) on April 8, 2015 Prominent human rights activist Pu Zhiqiang has languished in pre-trial detention since his arrest last May – in the lead-up to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre – on charges for several crimes including “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”. (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on April 5, 2015 It is a month since Chinese police seized five feminists who planned to distribute stickers and leaflets to highlight sexual harassment. China under Xi Jinping has proved increasingly intolerant of civil society; last year alone, almost 1,000 activists were detained, according to (read more…)
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Originally published by The Wall Street Journal on March 31, 2015 From an Evan Osnos article on Xi Jinping in the April 6 issue of the New Yorker: Xi describes his essential project as a rescue: he must save the People’s Republic and the Communist Party before they are swamped by (read more…)
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Originally published by Irish Times on March 24, 2015 Concern is growing over the health of one of the five feminist activists detained in Chinathis month, with reports that Wu Rongrong has had her medication withdrawn in the detention centre where she is being held. Ms Wu, who has hepatitis, and (read more…)
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Originally published by Al Jazeera on March 22, 2015 Beijing, China – Despite the abolition of communist reeducation through labour camps, China’s rulers continue to allow security agents to detain government critics within a vast network of secret gulags and psychiatric facilities spread across the People’s Republic, according to an international (read more…)
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Originally published by The New York Times on March 20, 2015 HONG KONG — Sixteen people who went to a Beijing detention center on Friday to push for medical treatment for one of five detained women’s rights activists were themselves taken into custody, according to one of the 16 detained and (read more…)
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Originally published by AFP on March 16, 2015 BEIJING (AFP) – Chinese authorities detained nearly 1,000 human rights defenders in 2014, an advocacy group said Monday, accusing President Xi Jinping s government of setting China s “worst record of human rights violations since the mid-1990s”. The figure nears the number detained in the (read more…)
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Originally published by New York Times on March , 2015 China detained at least 10 women’s rights activists over the weekend to forestall a nationwide campaign against sexual harassment on public transportation that was to overlap with International Women’s Day, according to human rights advocates and associates of those detained. At (read more…)
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Originally published by Asia News.it on March 5, 2015 Li took part in land rights campaigns and ran as an independent candidate in a local election. She accuses police of assaulting her whilst being handcuffed, depriving her of food and water and denying her medical care. She also accuses police of (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on February 17, 2015 The ruling Chinese Communist Party allows a climate of impunity for those who torture and mistreat inmates and detainees, which is now endemic throughout the country’s judicial and law enforcement system, a network of rights groups told the United Nations on (read more…)
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