Originally published by Radio Free Asia on March3, 2014 The number of arrests and disappearances of government critics tripled in a “nightmarish” first year of Xi Jinping’s presidency, an overseas rights group said in an annual report on Monday. The Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) documented more than 220 criminal detentions (read more…)
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Originally published by Epoch Times on November 4, 2013 Anti-graft activist Sun Desheng, arrested in Guangzhou in August, has twice been denied visitation by his lawyer, according to a recent interview. Sun Desheng was formally charged with “gathering a crowd to disrupt order of a public place” on Oct. 16, after (read more…)
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(TibetanReview.net, Jul21, 2013) In a renewed crackdown on civil society and human rights activists, China recently detained a leading anti-corruption activist and also shut down a prominent non-government think-tank in a sudden raid. “Dozens of municipal civil affairs bureau officials and police searched the offices of transition Institute on Social (read more…)
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Chinese police have detained a lawyer who sought to visit a prominent activist taken into custody this week, a Beijing-based dissident and overseas rights groups said Friday
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States on Thursday called on China to release a human rights lawyer who has campaigned against government corruption, saying it appeared he was being penalized for his activism.
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Chinese Human Rights Defenders has an update on the arrest of citizens and activists in China. The latest detainee is prominent activist Xu Zhiyong, who is considered a moderate reformer. 25 individuals have been confirmed criminally detained since February for publicly appealing for an end to official corruption and for (read more…)
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China has arrested a leading human rights lawyer and citizens’ rights advocate, in what appears to be part of a crackdown on the so-called “New Citizens’ Movement,” rights groups and supporters said on Wednesday.
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BEIJING: Chinese police have detained a human rights lawyer who called for the release of activists arrested for demanding that government officials disclose their assets, a lawyer said Wednesday.
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Police in Beijing have detained leading anti-graft campaigner Xu Zhiyong on charges of disrupting public order in a widening crackdown on activists who have called on government leaders to declare their assets, his lawyer and a rights group said on Wednesday.
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(Geneva – 5 July 2013) – In a joint letter, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) requested the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council to urgently address alleged reprisals against human rights defenders in China.
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WASHINGTON—The Congressional-Executive Commission on China heard testimony June 25 on the impact of cyber-attacks and espionage on American Intellectual Property (IP) and learned that over $300 billion each year are lost as a result. The majority of the theft emanates from China, concluded the Commission on the Theft of American (read more…)
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Since June 18, group of more than 100 people have been staging sit-in in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask the government to participate in the drafting of the Annual Report on Human Rights be presented in October at the UN. For now, the police are just (read more…)
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