“人权捍卫者联网”声明 （2015年7月30日）《中华人民共和国国家安全法》于2015年7月1日由全国人大常委通过生效，这部法律相当于在法律上护航中国政府对民间异议与公民自由的全面压制，举凡政治、少数民族与宗教层面无不包罗。这部法律对“国家安全”的定义宽泛潦草，其中有关条文将异议观点、宗教信仰、网络资讯以及对中国的所谓“网络主权”挑战一一入罪。除此以外，它还法定了一系列公民与团体必须遵从的“义务”清单，疏忽者可能需负刑责。
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Since President Xi Jinping came to power in March 2013, there has been a surge in incidents of violent assaults against human rights lawyers in retaliation for their work defending clients in politically “sensitive” cases. CHRD has documented 23 incidents involving 32 lawyers in this time period. Some lawyers have (read more…)
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Since July 2015, CHRD has requested UN independent experts of the Human Rights Council to conduct inquiries on behalf of six human rights defenders in China who have allegedly been subjected to rights violations. In the communications, CHRD documented Chinese authorities’ use of torture, forced disappearance, arbitrary detention, and obstruction (read more…)
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（2015年5月28日人权捍卫者联网讯）中国政府应叫停《境外NGO管理法》草案或删除草案中所写的，有关侵犯自由结社的基本人权条款和赋予警方极大权力打压公民社会维权活动的条款。《管理法（缩写）》不但严重限制境外非营利机构在中国的运作 (包括港澳台)，国内ＮＧＯ亦成为被打压对象。 “《境外ＮＧＯ管理法》一旦实施，将“严重摧残”中国独立的民间团体”某中国ＮＧＯ负责人告诉人权捍卫者联网。
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March 2013 – Present: Since President Xi Jinping’s presidency began, CHRD has documented more than 1,800 cases of arbitrary detention and torture of human rights defenders. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), detained in December 2008, remains imprisoned. March 2013 – Present: Torture remains endemic in Chinese detention centers (read more…)
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By Frances Eve | As 2014 came to a close, at least seven prominent Chinese human rights lawyers rang in the New Year from a jail cell. Under President Xi Jinping, the year was one of the worst in recent memory for China’s embattled civil society.
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By Victor Clemens | The booming construction and development industry in China has brought about a devastating side effect: violent episodes of land appropriation, housing evictions, and demolitions that typically victimize the poorest citizens, especially in urban areas.
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By Renee Xia & Perry Link | The detention of activists by the Chinese government is well known, but there is relatively little discussion about medical treatment in detention facilities. This issue is crucial for understanding what happened to Cao Shunli, a legal rights activist who died in custody in (read more…)
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CHRD is concerned that the Chinese government is to co-host a world summit with UN Women on gender equality and women’s empowerment, at a time when women human rights defenders and NGOs are facing unusually harsh repression under President Xi Jinping. Xi will open the global meeting at the UN (read more…)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States on September 24-25 comes at a time when his government is staging a ferocious crackdown against human rights lawyers. China’s overall human rights conditions have deteriorated since Xi took power in 2013. Xi has presided over the detentions and imprisonment (read more…)
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An important deadline has passed in the continued detentions of lawyers and activists seized during the July crackdown. The 37-day maximum allowed for criminal detention has passed for the seven individuals criminally detained between July 8-14. Police still hold in custody 22 lawyers and activists; of these, 15 are either (read more…)
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Guest Post: The Repression of Human Rights Defenders in China
March 1, 2015 Comments Off on Guest Post: The Repression of Human Rights Defenders in ChinaBy Frances Eve | A prominent pro-bono lawyer disappeared into police custody in Beijing last November. The family of Xia Lin, a man known for defending death penalty cases and environmental activists, has received no information about him for more than three months.
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