BEIJING: China has arrested an activist on a charge of subversion, his brother and a rights group said on Sunday, the second such arrest in less than two months and the latest sign that the authorities are hardening their stance toward dissent.
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Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei have detained a local activist on subversion charges after he organized “dinner parties” for fellow activists to discuss human rights and social justice.
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Originally published by Bloomberg Buesinessweek on June 5, 2014 China’s internal security forces effectively kept any would-be protestors or vigil holders off Tiananmen Square yesterday, the 25th anniversary of the 1989 massacre. Meanwhile, paranoid police activity also spread far beyond Beijing. In what the Washington (D.C.) nonprofit Chinese Human Rights Defenders (read more…)
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Reuters reports that authorities have arrested dissident Yang Lin in Guangdong province on charges of “inciting subversion of state power,” according to his brother:
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on November 7, 2013 The brother of New York-based Chinese blind dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the city on Thursday to visit the activist, saying he hoped to see for himself whether government propaganda handed down to Chinese schoolchildren about the U.S. is true. Chen’s (read more…)
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Originally published by The Jakarta Globe on June 3, 2014 Google services in China face blockages as the government tightens Internet controls ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, according to Greatfire.org, a site that tracks Web access in the country. Google features including search, Gmail and Google Translate have (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on March 7, 2014 A group of top Chinese lawyers has called for an end to the controversial system of business licenses, which must be reapplied for annually and which gives officials the power to strip lawyers of their right to practice. Lawyer Deng (read more…)
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Originally published by Naharnet Newsdesk on March 5, 2014 A Chinese activist allegedly detained to stop her taking part in a U.N. review of the country’s rights record is seriously ill in custody, her lawyer and an advocacy group said Wednesday. Police detained Cao Shunli last September at Beijing’s international airport, (read more…)
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Originally published by Epoch Times on November 7, 2013 A loose community of activists inside China has repeated the demands made by those outside: That the People’s Republic of China is in no way suited to be part of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations. The sentiment seems counterintuitive (read more…)
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Originally published by The Wall Street Journal on June 3, 2014 A quarter-century after Chinese leaders sent the military to crush student protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, one activist’s short career shows how the events of 1989 inform the Chinese authorities’ iron-fisted approach to dissent. As Josh Chin reports: After Chinese (read more…)
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Originally published by Tibetan Review. net on March 5, 2014 (TibetanReview.net, Mar05, 2014) – China’s fifth generation leadership which took government power under President Xi Jinping in March last year was responsible for the harshest suppression of civil society in over a decade, reported US-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on August 1, 2013 Chinese citizens who take the anti-corruption campaign of President Xi Jinping to heart by blowing the whistle on graft are likely to pay a high personal price, according to analysts. President Xi Jinping has warned that the ruling Chinese Communist Party must (read more…)
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