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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Beijing human rights activist and legal advocate Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) has been convicted of “creating a disturbance” and “fraud” and sentenced to two years and eight months in prison. Ni’s husband, Dong Jiqin (董继勤), also convicted of “creating a disturbance,” was sentenced to two years in prison.
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China Human Rights Briefing March 20-26, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Dissident Xue Mingkai Reportedly Sentenced to Four Years for “Subversion”: Shandong dissident Xue Mingkai, detained over a year ago as part of the Jasmine Crackdown, has reportedly been (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing March 13-19, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here. Top News Guangxi Lawyer Missing During “Residential Surveillance”: Human rights lawyer Yang Zaixin has gone missing after reportedly being ordered to “residential surveillance,” raising concerns about his fate and the (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing March 6-12, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Harassment Around “Two Meetings” Period Continues: Authorities have maintained a tight grip on the movements of petitioners and activists, particularly in and around Beijing, with the National People’s (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing February 28-March 5, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Government Suppression Marks “Two Meetings”: To “maintain stability” around the “Two Meetings” in Beijing, Chinese authorities have intensified suppression of dissidents, activists, and petitioners in the capital and elsewhere. (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing February 21-27, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here. Top News Dissident Li Tie Transferred to Prison, May Face Hard Labor: Hubei dissident Li Tie, sentenced to 10 years in January for “subversion of state power,” was recently sent to (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing February 14-20, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here. Top News One Jasmine Crackdown Detainee Released, Another Transferred to Prison: Hubei activist Gao Chunlian was released “on bail” last week after nearly a year in detention, while Sichuan activist (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing February 7-13, 2012 To read this issue as a PDF, please go here. Top News Dissident’s Sentence Adds to String of Recent Harsh Punishments: On February 10, Hangzhou dissident Zhu Yufu was issued a seven-year sentence for “inciting subversion of state power.” Zhu’s punishment is (read more…)
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The visit to Washington next week of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (习近平), the presumptive next president of China, comes during an escalating crackdown on political and religious dissent in China, and on the heels of China’s veto of a UN resolution condemning the ongoing killing of civilians by the (read more…)
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