On August 27, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) issued a revision of the October 2011 draft Mental Health Law, which unfortunately still falls far short of complying with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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CHRD’s latest report details the grim conditions and human rights abuses faced by hundreds of thousands of people detained against their will in China’s psychiatric hospitals because they have, or are alleged to have, psychosocial disabilities. Involuntary commitment and forced medical treatment of such persons violates the Convention on the (read more…)
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The US and China will soon hold the 17th round of their bilateral human rights dialogue in Washington, D.C.. With many rounds of the dialogue having been held, CHRD asks what has been achieved by these talks, and if there have been any tangible results or positive outcomes? CHRD strongly (read more…)
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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.
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For more than two decades, the Chinese government has pursued a policy of denial and silence regarding the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre: discussion of the massacre is widely censored, and there has been neither an investigation nor an apology. But many Chinese have refused to forget the tragedy despite government suppression (read more…)
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Two months before Chen Guangcheng (陈光诚) dramatically escaped from illegal house arrest in Shandong Province, activist and legal advocate Feng Zhenghu (冯正虎) was put under similar illegal detention in his home in Shanghai.
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Based on the Chinese government’s promise to protect activist Chen Guangcheng (陈光诚), US diplomats hastily delivered Chen from the US Embassy in Beijing to a hospital designated by Chinese officials on May 2, effectively putting his fate back in the hands of the government that has abused him for years.
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Following blind activist Chen Guangcheng’s (陈光诚) dramatic escape from unlawful house arrest, Chinese officials have seized at least four of his relatives, and one supporter believed to be involved in aiding in the escape has gone on missing. CHRD calls on the Chinese government to release illegally detained relatives and (read more…)
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In grief, we mourn the death of Fang Lizhi, 76, a renowned dissident and leading voice of political liberalization in China in the 1980s, whose public speeches and essays inspired the 1989 pro-democracy protests. Prof. Fang, a founder of modern astrophysics and cosmology in China, was a founding CHRD board (read more…)
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Beijing human rights activist and legal advocate Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) has been convicted of “creating a disturbance” and “fraud” and sentenced to two years and eight months in prison. Ni’s husband, Dong Jiqin (董继勤), also convicted of “creating a disturbance,” was sentenced to two years in prison.
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The visit to Washington next week of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (习近平), the presumptive next president of China, comes during an escalating crackdown on political and religious dissent in China, and on the heels of China’s veto of a UN resolution condemning the ongoing killing of civilians by the (read more…)
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Veteran dissident Zhu Yufu (朱虞夫), tried on January 31 for “inciting subversion of state power,” was sentenced today to seven years in prison by the Hangzhou City Intermediate People’s Court in Zhejiang Province.
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