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Lawyers Call For Probe Into Torture by China’s Party Investigators

August 19, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

Chen Guangcheng’s Imprisoned Seriously Ill Nephew Is Denied Medical Release

January 23, 2014 Comments Off

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.

China releases rights activist Gao Zhisheng

August 19, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

Former Chinese Labor Camp Inmates Struggle For Justice

January 14, 2014 Comments Off

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.

Chinese Police Hold Five Tiananmen Hunger Strikers, Lawyer

January 14, 2014 Comments Off

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.

China Ramping Up Persecution of Christians

August 6, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

China Intensifying Persecution of Christians

August 6, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

China Camp Closures Prompt Calls for Compensation

January 8, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

China Continues Crackdown on Free Speech

July 28, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

China Using Psychiatric Treatment as Punishment for Political Dissident

July 24, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

Beijing shuts Mao prison camps

January 3, 2014 Comments Off

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.

China Keeps Tiananmen Chatter Under Wraps Ahead of Anniversary

June 9, 2014 Comments Off

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…)