China marks Tiananmen anniversary
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A candlelight vigil is being held in Hong Kong on the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre as Chinese police blocked a cemetery for the victims.
Read moreLicenses Delayed for China’s Rights Lawyers
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liangxiaojun-305.jpg Dozens of China’s top human rights lawyers are facing unexplained delays in getting their business licenses renewed, in what is possibly the biggest clampdown on the country’s embattled legal profession to date, lawyers and rights groups said this week.
Read moreChina blocks Tiananmen anniversary remembrance
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Chinese police blocked the gate of a cemetery housing victims of the Tiananmen crackdown on its 24th anniversary on Tuesday, part of a sweeping annual effort to bar commemorations of the event. Authorities launch a major push every June 4 to prevent discussion of the violently crushed 1989 pro-democracy protests, (read more…)
Read moreChina Still Facing Memories of Tiananmen, Calls for Reform
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BEIJING — More than two decades later, China’s Communist Party is still facing calls for a full accounting of its bloody 1989 crackdown on protests in Tiananmen Square. And while the party shows no signs of changing its stance on the protests, the calls for more political openness and public (read more…)
Read moreChinese Victims’ Group Cites ‘Despair’ Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary
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Chinese society is slipping into “general despair” and mistrust of the ruling Communist Party, according to an activist group representing the victims of those killed or maimed in the 1989 military suppression of a student-led pro-democracy movement on Tiananmen Square, 24 years ago next week. In an open letter to (read more…)
Read moreParole Refusal Sparks Fears For Jailed Chinese Dissident’s Health
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Ailing democracy activist Zhu Yufu has been subjected to abusive treatment at his jail in the eastern province of Zhejiang following an international campaign for his release, relatives and rights groups say. Prison authorities have handed out “punitive abuses” to Zhu, 60, after his relatives traveled to the United States (read more…)
Read moreDaughter of a Detained Chinese Rights Activist Speaks
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Liao Minyue last saw her mother, the rights activist Liu Ping, in mid-April, when she returned home from college to help after Ms. Liu had an operation to remove gallstones. Now the third-year student at Anhui University of Finance and Economics says she hopes most of all that her mother (read more…)
Read moreChinese Police Detain Anti-Graft Activist’s Supporters
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Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangzhou have detained and questioned a lawyer who attempted to visit detained anti-corruption activist Liu Ping.
Read moreChina arrests anti-corruption campaigners: Lawyers
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BEIJING, May 9, 2013 (AFP) – Chinese authorities have arrested more than 10 activists who campaigned to have political leaders disclose their financial assets, lawyers said Thursday, with one charged with “inciting state subversion”.
Read moreChina petitioner detentions ‘not allowed’: official
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BEIJING: A top Chinese anti-corruption official has warned against detaining whistleblowers, reports said Wednesday, amid concern that local bureaucrats are derailing Beijing’s efforts to project a graft-busting image.
Read moreChina bans forced mental hospital detentions: media
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BEIJING: A new law has taken effect prohibiting Chinese from being committed to mental hospitals without their consent in an attempt to prevent “forced detentions”, state-run media said Thursday. Read more: China bans forced mental hospital detentions: media – Latest – New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/latest/china-bans-forced-mental-hospital-detentions-media-1.269610#ixzz2TvdVcFMH
Read moreChina’s New Mental Health Law Unlikely to Curb Abuse
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China’s first-ever mental health law came into effect on May 1. Now, mentally ill patients need to give consent before they’re institutionalized. The law was designed to better protect the rights of patients, but analysts say loopholes exist within the new law, and that abuse of the mental health system (read more…)
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