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Support PRC Citizens’ Action Challenging Constitutionality of Internet Censorship

March 13, 2006 Comments Off

Released on Nov. 13, 2005 (For Chinese, please visit: Article_Show.asp?ArticleID=487) Support PRC Citizens’ Action Challenging Constitutionality of Internet Censorship On November 9, 2005, on the eve of the Information Society World Summit (Geneva, November 10-12 and Tunis, November 16-18, http://www.itu.int/wsis/), a public campaign was kicked off (https://216.55.186.184/web/index.asp) by concerned Chinese (read more…)

Statement on the Bloodshed at Dongzhou in Shanwei City, Guangdong

March 12, 2006 Comments Off

Dear friends and colleagues: Please sign the following open statement and forward it through your mailing lists or list-servers to friends and colleagues, showing your support to this effort to bring to justice those responsible for the Dongzhou killings. Thank you, and happy holidays! CRD Coordinator December 20, 2005 Statement (read more…)

Villager Tortured and Put on Trial for Protesting Air Pollution

March 12, 2006 Comments Off

CRD has learned that, on November 25, 2005, Zhejiang villager Wang Liangping was put on trial for “gathering crowds to harm [others], destroy [property] and rob” in the Nanxi Municipal People’s Court for his role in the April 10, 2005, protest against air pollution produced by a chemical factory in (read more…)

CRD Condemns Chinese Security Officials’ Attempt to Run Over Human Rights Lawyer

March 12, 2006 Comments Off

We are deeply concerned about the personal safety of Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng, after his claim that cars he believes belong to the security services attempted to run him down on the night of January 17, 2006. These cars were illegally covering their license plates so that Gao could not (read more…)

International Women’s Day Marked by Detention and Harassment of Women Human Rights Defenders

March 8, 2006 Comments Off

Today, as government officials make speeches in many cities to mark the International Women’s Day, a national holiday in China, two women human rights defenders, Ma Yalian and Mao Hengfeng, remain detained by Shanghai police, family visits denied, and detention locations undisclosed. Other women activists, including AIDS activists, housing petitioners, (read more…)

CRD Protest Five-Year Sentence of Internet Writer Zhang Lin

February 25, 2006 Comments Off

CRD and Citizen Rights Defense Net (CRDN) protests the sentence of Internet writer Zhang Lin to five years in prison and four years deprivation of political rights by Bengbu Municipal Intermediate People’s Court in Anhui Province on 28 July 2005. (See Appendix, Bengbu Municipal Intermediate People’s Court, “Zhang Lin ‘Criminal (read more…)

CRD Deplores Continued House Arrest of Chen Guangcheng

February 25, 2006 Comments Off

CRD deplores continued house arrest of human rights activist and barefoot lawyer Cheng Guangcheng and abuses against villagers seeking to support him “They have detained and tortured villagers who opposed their family planning enforcement tactics. For almost a year now， they have used ill-treatment including tying a person to a (read more…)

Victims of Housing Rights Violation Barred from Seeking Redress

February 25, 2006 Comments Off

Without Protection of Civil-Political Rights， Victims of Housing Rights Violation Barred from Seeking Redress CRD has been asked to publicize an open letter to Shanghai authorities signed by 428 housing activists. In the letter released on 28 November， 2005， the activists protest about police intercepting and forcing them to return (read more…)

Disappearance and Detention of Hunger Strikers

February 23, 2006 Comments Off

Joint Statement by CRD and Citizen Rights Defense Net On Disappearance and Detention of Hunger Strikers We are deeply concerned about the fate of several individuals who have disappeared and been detained after participating in the hunger strike marathon started by the Beijing lawyer Gao Zhisheng on February 8, 2006, (read more…)

End Violence against Human Rights Defenders

February 5, 2006 Comments Off

End Violence against Human Rights Defenders – CRD Urges Investigation of Detention and Beating of Activist in Guangzhou CRD protests the detention and beating of a human rights defender Yang Maodong （pen name Guo Feixiong） in Guangzhou on February 3-4. This is the latest offence in a string of violent (read more…)

Housing Rights Activist Ma Yalian Detained Incommunicado for 20 Days

February 3, 2006 Comments Off

Shanghai activist Ma Yalian (F), 42, was detained from January 14 to February 2, 2006, the latest in a series of detentions without charge. Neighbors saw about 20 police surrounding her house on January 13, 2006. The next day she was taken by police to the Residents Committee of Huangpu (read more…)

The Trial of Oil Field Investors: a catalogue of violations

January 10, 2006 Comments Off

Trial and sentencing of representatives of private oil field investors is a catalogue of violations of criminal procedure code and human rights: CRD calls for case to be reopened, Feng released and government to open dialogue to resolve investors’ claims CRD expresses deep concerns about the fairness of the recent (read more…)