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On Second Thought: China Celebrates First Constitution Day

December 26, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

How China uses Christmas to hide its human rights abuses from the world

December 26, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

China sentences immigrants’ rights activist to jail

December 26, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

China Arrests Intellectuals in a New Wave of Repression

December 26, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

Christian Perseverance

December 26, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

Jailed Nobel laureate seeks more attention for lesser known activists

December 26, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

China Sentences Uighur Scholar’s Tohti Students to Up to 8 Years

December 26, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

Un ciudadano fallece cuando estaba bajo custodia por pedia justicia en China

December 2, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

La condena de reclamar justicia en China

December 2, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

“Petitioners Village” – the Price for Seeking Justice in China

December 2, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

Chinese activists stand trial over censorship protests

December 2, 2014 Comments Off

Originally published by South China Morning Post on NOVEMBER 28, 2014 Two prominent Chinese political activists went on trial today for helping to organise small-scale protests against censorship, their lawyer said – the latest prosecution in a deepening government crackdown on dissent. Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng both face possible five-year (read more…)

China Activists Tried for ‘Disturbing Order’

December 2, 2014 Comments Off

Originally published by Voice of America 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 (read more…)