Police have detained the founder of a human rights website and at least four writers after the site reported on a self-immolation in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and a defacement of Mao’s portrait there.
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BEIJING (AFP) – 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 on Friday.
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Originally published by EL DÍA on June 6, 2014 Tamara Gil, Pekín, EFE Tras la masacre de Tiananmen la noche del 3 al 4 de junio de 1989, vino la persecución: juicios sumarísimos y miles de encarcelamientos de estudiantes y trabajadores. Hoy, 25 años después, sólo queda una persona entre barrotes: Miao (read more…)
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BEIJING – 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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Originally published by SCMP on March 13, 2014 Three citizen journalists have been placed under criminal detention for reporting on two incidents at Tiananmen Square last week – a woman who attempted to set herself on fire, and the defacing of the famous portrait of Mao Zedong – the founder (read more…)
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A detained Chinese activist has managed to release a video from behind bars urging citizens to fight for their rights in an act likely to further antagonise authorities.
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Originally published by US News on June 6, 2014 The anniversary of the June 4, 1989, suppression of China’s democracy protests has passed. However, dissidents and activists detained in the weeks leading up to the anniversary are still in custody. According to Chinese Human Rights Defenders, more than 40 have been criminally (read more…)
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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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