Originally published by The New American on OCTOBER 28, 2014 A Chinese civil rights monitoring group has issued a report documenting the existence in Communist China of “black jails,” off-the-radar detention centers where potentially thousands of individuals — 80 percent women — who have raised the ire of local officials are (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on NOVEMBER 6, 2014 As the United Nations reviews China’s record in preventing violence against women, the authorities continue to detain and harass outspoken women activists, according to petitioners and rights activists Thursday. Authorities in the central city of Wuhan handed a 10-day administrative sentence (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on OCTOBER 31, 2014 Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Friday detained a prominent women’s rights activist after she organized an online activity in support of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central pro-democracy movement. Ye Haiyan, who founded the Women’s Rights Workshop, was taken away (read more…)
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Originally published by Terra México on OCTOBER 21, 2014 El 80% de las víctimas son mujeres y han estado entre días y hasta seis años encerradas sin derecho a juicio Las habitaciones de hotel o fábricas utilizadas como cárceles ilegales, donde miles de personas -la mayoría mujeres- son cada día torturadas para evitar (read more…)
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Originally published by The Washington Post on OCTOBER 27, 2014 Readers of the print edition of The New York Times on Friday saw a three-column headline on page A12, China Moves to Reinforce Rule of Law. On the facing page were two one-paragraph news briefs that illustrated what “rule of law” really (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on OCTOBER 21, 2014 Eighty percent of people held in China’s unofficial detention centers, or “black jails,” are female, and many suffer routine abuse at the hands of their captors, according to a report published on Tuesday by the overseas-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) group. (read more…)
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Originally published by Indileak on OCTOBER 21, 2014 Beijing: The use of hotels and factories as clandestine prisons where thousands of people — mostly women — are tortured to prevent their complaints against the government from coming to light has rapidly increased in China, an organisation Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) (read more…)
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Originally published by Washington Free Beacon on OCTOBER 24, 2014 Illegal detention facilities mostly house female prisoners, force detainees to receive ‘legal education’ Illegal detention centers known as “black jails” have proliferated in China, according to a new report, even as government officials deny their existence before a United Nations committee this (read more…)
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Originally published by The Washington Post on OCTOBER 26, 2014 READERS OF the print edition of the New York Times on Friday saw a three-column headline on page A12, “China Moves to Reinforce Rule of Law .” On the facing page were two one-paragraph news briefs that illustrated what “rule of law” really means (read more…)
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Originally published by The New York Times on OCTOBER 20, 2014 One night in June last year, Ding Hongfen and about 20 others stormed the Dongjiao Guesthouse in the city of Wuxi in eastern China, breaking down an iron door with crowbars. They freed five people held inside in a “black (read more…)
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Originally published by LA Prensa on October 21, 2014 Beijing, Oct 21 (EFE).- The use of hotels and factories as clandestine prisons, where thousands of people – mostly women – are tortured to prevent their complaints against the government from coming to light, has rapidly increased in China, the organization (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on October 16, 2014 As Hong Kong’s mass civil disobedience movement entered its 19th consecutive day on Thursday, authorities on the Chinese mainland have detained more than 60 people for openly supporting the move for universal suffrage, rights activists and lawyers said. According to (read more…)
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