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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China Human Rights Briefing July 13-19, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Contents Arbitrary Detention Artist Hua Yong Sent to RTL Over Tiananmen Massacre Performance Piece Beijing Activist Zhu Fuxiang Detained Nearly Eight Months Without Trial (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing July 7-12, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Contents Arbitrary Detention Shandong Police Interrogate Guards About Chen Guangcheng’s Escape, Determine Activist Escaped on His Own Hunan Activist Zhu Chengzhi Still Detained Incommunicado Beijing Authorities Detain (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing June 27-July 6, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please clickhere Contents Arbitrary Detention Chen Kegui Remains Detained, Family Warned as Officials Offer Token Compensation Activist Song Ze Remains Held in Undisclosed Location UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing June 20-26, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Controls Tighten Around Activist Feng Zhenghu: Feng Zhenghu, the activist who now has been under house arrest in Shanghai for four months, continues to face (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing June 12-19, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Authorities Maintain Suppression Over Deceased Activist Li Wangyang’s Friends, Family: Many friends and relatives of Li Wangyang, the labor activist who died on June 6 under suspicious circumstances, (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing June 5-11, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Shady Circumstances Envelope Death of Activist Li Wangyang: The death of Hunan activist Li Wangyang, a labor leader during the 1989 pro-democracy movement, was immediately met (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing May 29-June 4, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Authorities Suppress, Harass Citizens Around June Fourth Anniversary: As the Chinese government maintains a general policy of silence about the Tiananmen Massacre, authorities have harassed (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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China Human Rights Briefing May 23-28, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Chen Guangcheng’s Relatives, Family Supporters in Tough Straits: Chen Guangfu, Chen Guangcheng’s brother tortured by Shandong police in April, recently fled Dongshigu Village for Beijing to (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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