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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Originally published by The Washington Free Beacon on July 24, 2014 A Chinese online activist was sentenced to six and a half years in prison on Wednesday amid an ongoing crackdown on free speech in the country, Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) reports. Dong Rubin, an outspoken advocate for human rights and environmental (read more…)
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Originally published by The Washington Free Beacon on July 22, 2014 The Chinese government routinely uses psychiatric confinements as a tool to control dissidents, a Chinese human rights group said on Monday. Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) highlighted the case of Xing Shiku, a Chinese petitioner who has been involuntarily detained at the (read more…)
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CHINA’S National People’s Congress has passed ground-breaking resolutions to abolish re-education-through-labour camps and to relax the one-child policy.
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Originally published by The Wall Street Journal on June 2, 2014 BEIJING—China’s leadership is leaving little to chance ahead of this week’s 25th anniversary of the bloody quashing of the Tiananmen Square protests, having embarked on a widespread clampdown on dissent that has targeted lawyers, rights activists and journalists, (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on November 1, 2013 Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have formally arrested an anti-graft activist who demonstrated on the street in support of detained movement founder Xu Zhiyong, his lawyer said on Friday. Sun Desheng was detained after he held up (read more…)
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Tang Hui sobbed. She had fought for years for harsher punishment for those responsible for raping her daughter and forcing the 11-year-old into prostitution, but the authorities did not put the perpetrators behind bars longer. Instead, they locked her up in one of China’s re-education camps. They did not stop (read more…)
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Originally published by Christian Today on July 17, 2014 Friends, family, and supporters of Pastor Zhang Shaojie are speaking out against his 12-year prison sentence for fraud and “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order.” They say the conviction and sentence were a “miscarriage of justice.” The Christian pastor was sentenced on (read more…)
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Originally published by The Daily Beast on June 2, 2014 The Chinese regime steps up suppression every year before June 4, but this year is worse, suggesting officials are more nervous than usual. Twenty-five years ago, on the night of June 3-4, troops of China’s People’s Liberation Army crushed the (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on July 17, 2014 One of three Chinese anti-graft activists detained by authorities in the southern province of Guangdong may have been secretly tried and jailed for four years on subversion charges, a lawyer has revealed. Rights attorney Zheng Jianwei came across a court (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on May 30, 2014 Authorities in the Chinese capital have poured hundreds of thousands of security personnel into the Beijing municipality ahead of next week’s 25th anniversary of the June 4 military crackdown on the 1989 student movement, official media reported on Friday.Security posts (read more…)
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Originally published by ABC.es on October 22, 2013 Paradojas de la diplomacia, China aspira a un puesto en el Consejo de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas mientras sigue persiguiendo a los disidentes que critican al autoritario régimen del Partido Comunista. Dicho Consejo, encargado de «proteger los derechos humanos en los (read more…)
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