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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Originally published by New York Times on March 8, 2015 BEIJING — 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 (read more…)
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Originally publish by Radio Free Asia on March 12, 2015 Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have detained a man after he retweeted calls for an anti-smog protest last weekend, his lawyer told RFA on Thursday. Guangzhou-based rights activist Guo Chunping was handed a 14-day administrative sentence for suspicion of (read more…)
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Originally publish by Radio Free Asia on March 16, 2015 China’s persecution of human rights activists was “unusually severe” in 2014, according to a report released Monday by an overseas-based rights group, which said President Xi Jinping had intensified a campaign last year to “purge universal values” in the world’s most populous (read more…)
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Originally publish by Cosmopolitan UK on March 17, 2015 Five women are being criminally detained by Chinese authorities after being suspected of “picking quarrels and creating a disturbance”. The women are known for campaigning for the LGBT community and women’s rights, and were apparently detained after authorities discovered they were planning on highlighting sexual (read more…)
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Originally publish by Radio Free Asia on March 17, 2015 Dozens of top Chinese lawyers have announced a boycott of the annual review of their licenses by the authorities, saying the practice is illegal, and amounts to political control over the country’s embattled legal profession. At least 38 lawyers from Beijing, Sichuan, (read more…)
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Originally publish by New York Times (blog) on March 17, 2015 The Chinese authorities last year detained more people advocating greater civic rights than at any time since at least the mid-1990s, a United States-based organization said in a new report. The rights activists encompass a broad group of people, including opponents (read more…)
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Originally published by Washington Free Beacon on March 16, 2015 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is facing new criticism of her record on human rights violations in China. In Clinton’s book Hard Choices, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate for 2016 touted her efforts to secure asylum in the United States (read more…)
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Originally published by ABC on March 12, 2015 Five women’s rights activists who were reportedly planning to raise awareness of sexual harassment on public transport are being criminally detained in China. Li Maizi (also known as Li Tingting), Wu Rongrong, Zheng Churan, Wang Man and Wei Tingting were taken away by (read more…)
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Originally published by The Telegraph on March 12, 2015 Human rights activists have called on Beijing to release five female campaigners who were detained last weekend after reportedly printing stickers and leaflets calling for an end to sexual harassment. Li Tingting, Wei Tingting, Wu Rongrong, Zheng Churan and Wang Man are (read more…)
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Originally published by USA Today on March 12, 2015 BEIJING — China’s chief justice Zhou Qiang vowed Thursday to stop wrongful convictions and weed out corrupt judges, as authorities try to build trust in the nation’s “socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics.” Top prosecutor Cao Jianming also pledged better access for (read more…)
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