Originally published by The Telegraph on June 3, 2014 By Tom Phillips in Hong Kong Relatives of Chinese citizens gunned down during the 1989 Tiananmen massacre have defied unprecedented Communist Party attempts to silence them to demand the truth about their loved-ones’ deaths ahead of today’s 25th anniversary of the (read more…)
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HONG KONG — The authorities in Beijing have formally arrested one of China’s best-known human rights advocates on charges of disturbing public order, his lawyer and a friend said on Friday. It was the latest escalation in a case that has prompted a protest in China and criticism from the (read more…)
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Originally published by Agencia EFE on November 8, 2013 Pekín, 8 nov (EFE).- Las autoridades chinas han arrestado a decenas de ciudadanos que pretendían presentar sus denuncias al Gobierno central en Pekín, en vísperas de la importante reunión del Partido Comunista Chino (PCCh) que comienza mañana en la capital. Según (read more…)
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Originally published by EPOCH TIMES on August 21, 2013 When two lawyers, Cheng Hai from Beijing and Tang Tianhao from Chongqing, went to the Dalian Detention Center on Aug. 15 to meet with their clients, Falun Gong practitioners that the local authorities are attempting to prosecute on dubious legal grounds, police said (read more…)
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Originally published by New York Times on March 28, 2014 Updated, 5:40 a.m.ET | A lawyer for Cao Shunli, a human rights activist who died in detention on March 14, said her family wants an independent autopsy by pathologists from outside China, saying they do not trust local pathologists or the (read more…)
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Chinese authorities have detained Yang Maodong, a leading member of the country’s loose New Citizens campaign that promotes democratic rights, his friend and an international human rights advocacy group said Saturday.
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Chinese authorities on Thursday released a top rights lawyer but continued to keep three others in a detention center after they tried to campaign for the release of an inmate from a “black jail” in northeastern China, activists said.
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Originally published by Agence France-Presse on November 8, 2013 The official mouthpiece of China’s ruling Communist Party on Friday firmly rejected Western-style political reforms as reports emerged of tightened security a day before a major party meeting. The party “must uphold its leadership… in the face of some people in society (read more…)
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BEIJING (AFP) – Chinese police have detained a prominent human rights activist, signalling the continuation of a recent crackdown on dissent, an advocacy group said on Saturday.
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The wife of a recently detained human rights activist issued an open letter to President Xi Jinping calling for the release of her husband and the implementation of the constitution.
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In what one Western diplomat called a “very unusual”development, the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva has postponed the adoption of China’s human rights report amid protests over the death in custody of a rights activist in Beijing and reports of delaying tactics by China.
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A Chinese human rights group and a friend say authorities have detained Guo Feixiong, a leader of the country’s loose New Citizens campaign to promote democratic rights.
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