Prominent human rights scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong’s trial began and concluded on Wednesday, with both Xu and his lawyer remaining silent in protest of what they said were the illegal procedures taken by the court during the trial. Both refused to talk during the trial proceedings to demonstrate their (read more…)
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BEIJING — Legal scholar Xu Zhiyong missed his daughter’s birth last week. The human rights advocate is unlikely to rejoin his family for next week’s Chinese new year, nor for the next five years. Detained since July, Xu enters a Beijing courtroom Wednesday in the first of a rapid series (read more…)
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Originally published by Crossmap on August 18, 2014. Zhisheng, 50, is a Christian lay leader as well as a Beijing-based lawyer. He came to prominence for defending activists and religious minorities before Chinese authorities closed down his law practice in 2005, and arrested him for ‘subversion’ a year later, a charge (read more…)
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Xu Zhiyong, the founder of China’s New Citizens’ Movement, went on trial today. His supporters vow to continue their push for greater transparency among Chinese officials.
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on August 15, 2014. A group of lawyers has called for an investigation into allegations of torture under the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s internal disciplinary system, known as “shuanggui,” an overseas-based rights group said on Friday. Lawyers representing a number of former party officials in the (read more…)
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The nephew of blind Chinese activist is suffering from appendicitis, but prison authorities refuse to allow his release on medical grounds, or allow surgery in the prison hospital, reported Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) in a briefing last week.
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Originally published by The Irish Times on August 8, 2014. One of China’s most prominent human rights activists, Gao Zhisheng, has been released after three years in jail, activists reported yesterday, although it remained unclear whether he will be subject to restrictions on his freedom. Mr Gao is best known for his (read more…)
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Just days after China’s parliament voted to abolish the controversial “re-education through labor” system, Beijing police detained and tortured a former inmate who penned an open letter about abuses she had suffered under the system, a rights group said this week.
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Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou are holding five activists who began a hunger strike to mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square military crackdown this year, as well as a lawyer who enquired about them, according to rights groups and lawyers.
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Originally published by The Washington Free Beacon on July 29, 2014. Chinese authorities are ramping up their persecution of Christian churches in response to what they perceive as an emerging threat to the communist regime, according to reports. Public security officials in recent days forcibly removed crosses from two churches in the southeastern (read more…)
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Originally published by Worthy News on August 1, 2014. By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent BEIJING (Worthy News)– Chinese authorities are escalating their attacks on churches since they perceive the growth of Christianity as a threat to their communist regime, according to The Washington Free Beacon. Security officials have forcibly (read more…)
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Originally published by Epoch Times on January 6, 2014 In response to enormous pressure from inside and outside China, the Communist Party last year made it official: it was going to abolish the system of re-education through labor camps that it has used to punish dissidents since the 1950s. But if (read more…)
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