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Chinese Activists Continue to Be ‘Mentally Illed’ in Spite of New Law

November 19, 2013 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on November 14, 2013 Six months after a new health law took effect, Chinese psychiatric institutions are continuing to commit petitioners and rights activists to hospitals for “mental illness,” a rights group said on Thursday. While some psychiatrists are refusing to admit “patients” who (read more…)

China Releases Some Activists Held Before Tiananmen Anniversary

June 16, 2014 Comments Off

Originally published by The Wall Street Journal on June 6, 2014 HONG KONG—Chinese authorities released a few of the dozens of activists and critics detained in the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the bloody 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests. But human-rights advocates say the continued detention of others (read more…)

Activists and petitioners held in China’s psychiatric hospitals

November 19, 2013 Comments Off

Originally published by AsiaNews on November 14, 2013 The authorities continue to lock up and feed drugs to those who struggle for citizens’ rights, a practice that violates China’s own laws. Under the latter in fact, only certified psychiatrists (not government officials) can have someone committed. One of the cases (read more…)

‘They can never erase history’

June 16, 2014 Comments Off

Originally published by The StarPhoenix on June 4, 2014 Relatives of Chinese citizens shot dead during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre have defied unprecedented Communist Party attempts to silence them and are demanding the truth about their loved ones’ deaths ahead of Wednesday’s 25th anniversary of the uprising. More than (read more…)

China’s ‘almost certain’ election to UN Human Rights Council elicits outrage, protests

November 19, 2013 Comments Off

Originally published by Shanghaiist on November 11, 2013 China is ‘almost certain’ to be elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, when the UN General Assembly will elect 17 new member states to the 47-member council, and human rights activists at this moment are adamantly protesting to (read more…)

‘I will not be silenced. I want truth behind Tiananmen’

June 16, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

Formal Arrest of Advocate Is Approved by China

August 28, 2013 Comments Off

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…)

PCCh China detiene a decenas de ciudadanos para blindar Pekín por reunión del PCCh

November 19, 2013 Comments Off

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…)

Chinese Lawyer Beaten and Denied Access to Client in Falun Gong Case

August 28, 2013 Comments Off

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…)

Family Seeks Independent Autopsy of Activist Who Died in Detention

March 31, 2014 Comments Off

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…)

Rights group says China detains legal activist

August 28, 2013 Comments Off

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.

Chinese Authorities Release Rights Lawyer, Keep Three Others Behind Bars

March 28, 2014 Comments Off

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.