China Human Rights Briefing A Monthly News Update March 2007 Crackdowns related to the annual NPC session continued well into March. The annual meeting of the National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference brought tightened security and restriction on movement and speech for many citizens. In preparation for (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing A monthly newsletter of CRD February 2007 While the Chinese took most days off in February to observe the incoming “Year of the Pig”, human rights problems failed to gain any respite. The courts did not miss a beat in convicting independent writers and rights activists. (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing (A monthly Chinese human rights information update) January 2007 Table of Contents Arrests, Trails, Sentences, and Imprisonment 1. Activist Mao Hengfeng sentenced to 2.5 years 2. Activist Chen Guangcheng loses appeal 3. Cyber activist Li Hong tried on subversion charge 4. Detained rights activist Yang Maodong (read more…)
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Table of Contents Crackdown on mass protests exacerbating “social unrest” 1. End-of-year survey found social unrest the top concern for officials 2. CCP admits social unrest threatens its rule 3. Social unrest unabated as government clams down on protests The Death Penalty: Executions sped up before Supreme Court review kicks (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing October 21 – December 1, 2006 Table of Content: Arbitrary Arrests 1. Farmer arrested for displaying anti-corruption banner, angry villagers take hostages 2. Hemophilia activist Kong Delin Detained for 35 Days by Shanghai Police 3. AIDS Activist Wan Yanhai Detained for nearly 3 Days, Police Force (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing September 14 – October 20, 2006 (CRD, Hong Kong, October 22, 2006) Table of Contents: Olympics clean-ups target mass actions, civil rights under increasing assault 1. Beijing residents clash with police over housing jeopardized by Olympics construction 2. Beijing police intercept and forcibly return petitioners 3. (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing (Aug. 13 – Sep. 13, 2006) September 12: Rights activist Guo Qizhen tried for sedition The activist Guo Qizhen, based in Changzhou City, Hebei Province, was tried on the charge of “sedition to overthrow state power” by the Changzhou Municipal Intermediate People’s Court on September 12. (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing (June 20-Aug. 13, 2006) August 11: HIV/AIDS activist Li Xige released on bail Li Xige, an HIV/AIDS activist from rural Henan Province who is the director of the group Healthy Happy Home, was released on bail after 21 days in detention. On July 18, Li Xige (read more…)
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June 13: After 89 days of illegal detention, Shandong rights activist Chen Guangcheng faces charges On June 11, Yuan Weijing, wife of the human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, was notified by the Yinan County Public Security Bureau that her husband had been charged with “deliberate destruction of property” and “organizing (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing (May 12-June1, 2006) June 1: “Tiananmen Mothers” leader Ding Zilin urges remembering “6.4” On May 28, the leader of the Tiananmen Mothers movement, Ding Zilin, who lost her son during the June 4th Massacre in Beijing in 1989, wrote an open letter to endorse US Congressman (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing (May 1-14, 2006) May 14: Internet Writer Tried on Subversion Charge, Prosecutor Introduced Coerced “Confession” Li Yuanlong, a journalist at Bijie Daily in Guizhou Province, was tried for “subversion of state power” at the Bijie Intermediate People’s Court on May 11. Some 20 family members, friends, (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing April 21-May 1, 2006 May 1: TIME nominates activist Chen Guangcheng as one of 100 people “who shape our world” Time magazine nominated the blind Shandong activist Chen Guangcheng as one of 100 people who shape our world in its April 30, 2006 edition ( http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1186887,00.html (read more…)
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