China Human Rights Briefing May 15-22, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News June Fourth Prisoner Released Into Life of Restrictions: Li Yujun has been released after being detained for nearly 23 years in connection with the burning (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing: Special Edition May 22, 2012 Lawyers for Chen Kegui Challenge Local Police’s Unlawful Obstruction of Efforts to Defend Client CHRD has obtained a letter addressed to the police chief of the Yinan County Public Security Bureau (PSB) in Shandong Province contesting the police’s (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing: Special Edition May 16, 2012 Shandong Police Torture Chen Guangfu, Brother of Chen Guangcheng; Relatives Live in Fear CHRD has learned that Chen Guangfu (陈光福), the elder brother of activist Chen Guangcheng (陈光诚), was reportedly tortured while in the hands of Yinan County police in (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing May 9-14, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Harassment Rampant Against Individuals With Ties to Chen Guangcheng: The nephew of Chen Guangcheng has confirmed to be formally arrested, and lawyers, activists, and others are (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing May 4-8, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Concerns Abound Even After Chen Guangcheng Deal Struck: While the Chinese government has promised to allow the activist Chen Guangcheng and his family to go (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing April 24-May 3, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Chen Guangcheng Arrangement Uncertain, Concerns Swirl Over Family’s Safety: Conditions negotiated by US and Chinese officials for activist and lawyer Chen Guangcheng and his family to remain in (read more…)
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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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China Human Rights Briefing April 18-23, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Authorities Deem Netizen’s Case “Secret,” Block Lawyers’ Visit: Guangzhou police recently blocked lawyers from seeing detained netizen Ou Ronggui,claiming his case “involves secrets,” and threatened (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing April 11-17, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Petitioner reported rape by interceptor, police refuse to investigate: in one of the most egregious cases of violence against petitioners, Zhu Guiqin from Liaoning Province reported to CHRD (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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China Human Rights Briefing April 3-10, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Beijing Activists Ni Yulan, Dong Jiqin Sentenced: On April 10, activists Ni Yulan and Dong Jiqin, who now have been detained for one year, were sentenced. Ni was given (read more…)
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