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Photo Gallery: 2013 Crackdown on Peaceful Assembly & Free Expression – Detainee Photos & Backgrounds

July 18, 2013 Comments Off

Since late March of 2013, Chinese police have taken into custody activists, lawyers, and other citizens in a crackdown triggered by an advocacy campaign waged against official corruption and other politically sensitive issues. As of July 18, 2013, a total of 26 individuals tied to the drive are known to (read more…)

Photo Gallery: Citizens Appeal for Justice on Human Rights Day, Police Take Action

December 18, 2012 Comments Off

Chinese citizens marked Human Rights Day on December 10 by protesting against rights violations and calling for social justice in many parts of the country. Several thousand petitioners who tried to lodge grievances in Beijing, particularly around the UN Development Programme Office and other international agencies, were swept up and (read more…)

Reckless Act of Local Officials’ Aggression: Hunan Petitioner Crushed to Death by Construction Vehicle (Video & Photos)

September 27, 2012 Comments Off

On September 16, 2012, He Zhihua (何志华), a villager from Hunan Province, was crushed under a road leveling machine while protesting a land seizure and home demolition project done to build a highway (see related story in CHRD’s China Human Rights Briefing, 9/21-27, 2012). Below are video clips and images (read more…)

Photo Gallery: Street Art and Protests Against Re-education through Labor Abuses

September 7, 2012 Comments Off

Since August 2012, many Chinese have publicly voiced their views that Reeducation through Labor (RTL), China’s extrajudicial detention system, should be reformed or abolished. CHRD has posted photos of protests and youth doing street art to raise awareness of abuses that take place in RTL facilities.

Photo Gallery: Abuses of Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment in China

August 22, 2012 Comments Off

Photo gallery accompanying CHRD’s report, “The Darkest Corners”: Abuses of Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment in China, published in August 2012.

June 3-4, 2009: 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre – Map & List of Victims

June 4, 2009 Comments Off

On the night of June 3-4, 1989, troops of China’s People’s Liberation Army moved into Beijing to crush the pro-democracy demonstrations that began in April of that year. In parks, streets, subway stations, and even hospitals and homes, innocent ordinary Chinese men and women were murdered by their government.