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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China’s political elite are expected to oust disgraced figure Bo Xilai and jostle for leadership roles in their last formal meeting which opened on Thursday ahead of next week’s landmark power handover. The Communist Party’s Central Committee convened behind closed doors, state media said, with 500 senior members to debate (read more…)
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The owner of an Internet cafe in southwest China was given an eight-year prison term for criticizing the ruling Communist Party in online messages and for seeking to establish an opposition party, his wife said Thursday.
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The Observatory has been informed by Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) of the ongoing arbitrary detention since September 30 of Ms. Mao Hengfeng, a Shanghai activist who has been active in defending the right to housing and opposing forced evictions as well as in promoting women’s reproductive rights.
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China adopted a law on Friday to protect for the first time the rights of the mentally ill after years of accusations that psychiatric hospitals are used to lock up people against their will and silence dissidents.
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The provincial authorities arrested Chen Yudao in 2008 over the murder of a neighbor. Without evidence, witnesses or motivation they kept him one year in prison, three years ago at the trial the judges did not sentence him.
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Beijing (dpa) – Two years after her jailed husband won the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xia remains in limbo, almost completely cut off from the outside world yet subject to no legal process.
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When the human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng escaped extra-legal house arrest and beatings and found his way to the U.S. Embassy last month, he became an instant hero on the Chinese Internet. How had he escaped? How could a single blind man tear such a hole in the government’s pervasive (read more…)
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