China Human Rights Briefing Weekly October 5-12, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Liu Xiaobo Awarded 2010 Nobel Peace Prize: On October 8, the Nobel Committee announced it had awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned activist, writer and intellectual Liu (read more…)
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CHRD Hails Decision to Award Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo Chinese government must immediately free Liu and all incarcerated human rights defenders (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, October 8, 2010) – CHRD hails the Nobel Committee’s announcement and congratulates the imprisoned activist, writer and intellectual, Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly September 30 – October 4, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB in a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Detentions and Harassment Related to National Day Continue through Holiday: With the 61st anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China taking place this (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly September 22-29, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Chengdu Court protestors sentenced: Ten activists were convicted of “assembling a crowd to disrupt social order” on September 28 for protesting outside the Chengdu City Intermediate Court in 2009. (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly September 14-21, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Young AIDS Activist Goes on Trial: AIDS activist Tian Xi (田喜) was tried for “intentional destruction of property” in Henan Province on September 21. About a hundred netizens and (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- September 16, 2010) With China’s fifth periodic report to the Committee against Torture (CAT) upcoming, many key problems raised by CAT in 2008 as it considered China’s fourth periodic report have yet to be adequately addressed. In a report to CAT submitted on September 8, CHRD (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly September 7-13, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Fujian Village Chief Tried on Trumped-up Charges, Lawyer Harassed: In retaliation for his efforts to organize local villagers against unlawful land expropriation, officials in Fujian Province arrested village chief (read more…)
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Activist Chen Guangcheng Released after Serving Full Sentence Authorities Must Stop Soft Detention and Harassment of Chen and Family (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, September 9, 2010) –Chen Guangcheng (陈光诚), a well-known human rights activist and “barefoot lawyer,” was released today from Linyi Prison in Shandong Province after serving his full (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly August 24-30, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Villagers Detained over Election Protest: Nine residents of Raolefu Village, located on the outskirts of Beijing, have been detained for participating in a protest on July 27 over the (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly August 17-23, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Young AIDS Activist Tian Xi Arrested in Henan: CHRD learned on August 24 that 23 year-old Henan Province AIDS activist Tian Xi (田喜) has been arrested for “intentional destruction (read more…)
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The following is a translation of a public letter signed by a group of Chinese lawyers, activists, and writers concerned over allegations of torture in the Chongqing anti-mafia campaign. For the original text, in Chinese, please click here. Open letter requesting Supreme People’s Court immediately to open an investigation into (read more…)
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