Originally published in South China Morning Post on March 11, 2013 Agence France-Presse in Beijing A few miles from China’s National People’s Congress in Beijing, citizens who have travelled from across the country to tell the government about their problems face tight controls on this age-old right. China’s centuries-old petition (read more…)
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Originally published in Bangkok Post on March 11, 2013 A few miles from China’s National People’s Congress in Beijing, citizens who have travelled from across the country to tell the government about their problems face tight controls on this age-old right. China’s centuries-old petition system, developed under imperial rule, is (read more…)
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your urgent intervention on the following situation in the People’s Republic of China.
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BEIJING — It is hard to say exactly which “subversive” sentiments drew the police to Ren Jianyu, who posted them on his microblog last year, although “down with dictatorship” and “long live democracy” stand out.
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The man who revealed the deaths of five homeless children in a bin this week, sparking soul-searching across China, has been taken away by officials, his supporters have said. The boys, who were found dead in the south-western province of Guizhou, were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, apparently after lighting (read more…)
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Security measures were tight during China’s recent communist party congress. Petitioners were targeted and at least two of them died for unknown reasons while in custody. […]According to the activist group “Chinese Human Rights Defenders,” Zhang and several other petitioners were arrested by the Beijing police and handed over to (read more…)
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BEIJING — At least two activists died in custody before or during China’s Communist Party congress and tens of thousands had their movements restricted, rights groups said Monday.
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Originally published in The Guardian on November 15, 2012 Xi Jinping, who has been confirmed as the man who will lead China for the next decade, cuts a contrasting figure to his predecessor, Hu Jintao. While Hu is determinedly anonymous, Xi is “a big personality”, according to those who have met (read more…)
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Originally published in Fox News on November 14, 2012 A man from the central Chinese province of Henan who traveled to Beijing “to ask for justice” on the eve of the 18th Congress of the ruling Communist Party was beaten to death in custody, China Human Rights Defenders charged on (read more…)
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(BEIJING) — During her 30-hour train journey to Beijing, Wang Xiulan ducked into bathrooms whenever the conductors checked IDs. Later, as she lay low in the outskirts of the capital, unidentified men caught her in a nighttime raid and hauled her to a police station. She assumed a fake identity (read more…)
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gehört zu den neueren Schlagworten der Kommunistischen Partei. Gemeint ist damit vor allem die zeitgemässe Überwachung der Bevölkerung. Eine Woche vor dem Beginn des 18. Parteitages, der eine neue Führungsgeneration an die Macht bringen wird, stehen an grösseren Pekinger Strassen alle fünfzig Meter «Freiwillige» mit roter Armbinde, die für Ruhe (read more…)
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BEIJING — China’s national pole-dancing team, five women and two men, jet to Switzerland this week for the sport’s world championship. Back home, people fret about house prices, watch TV dating shows and love online shopping. They shoot “Gangnam Style” music video covers, too.
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