Originally published by Reuters on November 28, 2014 Two Chinese human rights activists are standing trial Friday on charges of “disturbing public order,” becoming the latest dissidents to be prosecuted by Beijing. Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng were arrested in August 2013 after taking part in rallies outside a newspaper that had (read more…)
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Originally published by EFE on December 4, 2014 Chinese authorities have arrested a number of public intellectuals and shut down two independent organizations in what many see as a preventive response to the threat of Hong Kong’s revolution spreading to the rest of the country, the Chinese Human Rights Defenders, CHRD (read more…)
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Originally published by The Wall Street Journal on December 4, 2014 Roughly two years ago, free-speech protests outside the offices of a celebrated Chinese newspaper sparked a government crackdown on proponents of constitutionalism. Today, China’s government is leading the celebrations to mark its first national Constitution Day. The seeming about-face illustrates (read more…)
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Originally published by Quartz on December 2, 2014 The cheer of America’s holiday season is typically lost on China. Over the past decade, Chinese officials have increasingly chosen to hold trials for detained political dissidents during Western holidays, when diplomats, journalists, and other observers are off duty or distracted. Last week’s American Thanksgiving (read more…)
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Originally published by Business Standard on December 2, 2014 Beijing, Dec 2 (IANS/EFE) Immigrant’s rights activist Zhao Fengshin has been sentenced to four years in prison for allegedly encouraging the use of violence in letters that were posted online, according to media reports Monday. According to Boxun magazine, the sentence was passed (read more…)
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Originally published by Latin American Herald Tribune on December 15, 2014 BEIJING – Chinese authorities have arrested a number of public intellectuals and shut down two independent organizations in what many see as a preventive response to the threat of Hong Kong’s revolution spreading to the rest of the country, the (read more…)
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Originally published by The New American (Magazine) on December 12, 2014 Meriam Ibrahim sat shackled in Khartoum’s Omdurman Federal Women’s Prison, sentenced to 100 lashes and death by hanging. Her 20-month-old son, Martin Wani, who shared her prison cell, was ill from the filth and the stress of the imprisonment. And now, (read more…)
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Originally published by IANS on December 12, 2014 China’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiabo, who is serving a 11-year sentence in prison for inciting subversion, Friday called for the world to pay more attention to the fate of lesser known Chinese rights activists. He said this in a message to (read more…)
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Originally published by Bloomberg on December 9, 2014. China sentenced seven students of incarcerated scholar Ilham Tohti, a member of the country’s Uighur minority, to three to eight years in prison for separatism, Hong Kong government broadcaster RTHK said. The verdicts followed a trial held last month, RTHK said on (read more…)
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Originally published by ABC on Novermber 27, 2014 Un peticionario, ciudadanos que viajan a Pekín para pedir justicia al Gobierno central y que son perseguidos por el régimen, ha fallecido cuando llevaba bajo custodia dos días, un caso que según organizaciones de derechos humanos pone en evidencia la falta de controles (read more…)
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Originally published by Diario Información on November 28, 2014 A más de dos horas del centro de Pekín se encuentra el “pueblo de los peticionarios”, un conjunto de chabolas de ciudadanos que viven pidiendo justicia en China y que forman parte de una lista negra del régimen que les impide tener (read more…)
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Originally published by Business Standard on November 29, 2014 BEIJING – More than two hours away from the center of Beijing is the “petitioners village,” a group of huts that belong to citizens demanding justice in China and who are unable to find work or decent housing as they have been (read more…)
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