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Liaoning High People’s Court Must Overturn Death Sentence Given to Street Vendor Xia Junfeng, Victim of Official Violence

June 28, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- June 28, 2010) On June 29, the Liaoning Provincial High People’s Court (Liaoning HPC) will convene an open court session to hear the appeal of Xia Junfeng (夏俊峰), a street vendor in Shenyang City who was sentenced to death for killing two City Administration and Law (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing June 15-21, 2010

June 22, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing June 15-21, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Beijing Activists Harassed Ahead of Dragon Boat Festival: Beijing police, concerned that local activists and netizens would be gathering together during the Dragon Boat Festival, harassed and briefly detained a (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing Weekly June 8-14, 2010

June 15, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing Weekly June 8-14, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights CHRD Website Suffers Another DDOS Attack: CHRD’s Chinese-language website, https://www.nchrd.org, was once again been targeted by a Directed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attack. The site was inaccessible between midnight on June (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing June 1-7, 2010

June 9, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing Weekly June 1-7, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights 21st Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre Marked by Harassment, Detentions, Silence: This year, the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, the Chinese government once again refused to openly and truthfully (read more…)

Tan Zuoren’s Harsh Sentence Upheld by Sichuan High Court

June 8, 2010 Comments Off

Tan Zuoren’s Harsh Sentence Upheld by Sichuan High Court (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- June 9, 2010) The Sichuan Provincial High People’s Court announced this morning that it had upheld the judgment of activist and environmentalist Tan Zuoren (谭作人). Tan was convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” in February 2010 (read more…)

Tiananmen Anniversary Marked by Harassment, Detentions, and Official Silence

June 3, 2010 Comments Off

Tiananmen Anniversary Marked by Harassment, Detentions, and Official Silence (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, June 3, 2010) On the eve of the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, the Chinese government continues to refuse to openly and truthfully address the events of June 4, 1989, and persists in its efforts to (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing May 25-31, 2010

June 2, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing Weekly May 25-31, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Homeless Rights Activist Ni Yulan and Husband Harassed, Detained in Beijing: Between May 26 and 28, Beijing human rights activist Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) and her husband were harassed on (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing May 18-24, 2010

May 26, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing May 18-24, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Beijing Tax Officials Launch New Investigation into Aizhixing: Prominent Beijing-based HIV/AIDS NGO Aizhixing has once again been targeted for inspection by Beijing tax officials. On the morning of May 19, (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing May 11-17, 2010

May 19, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing Weekly May 11-17, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Beijing Writer and Activist Wang Debang Interrogated, Home Searched: Beijing police searched the home of Beijing-based writer and human rights activist Wang Debang (王德邦) on May 11, confiscating a (read more…)

Beijing Activist Wang Debang Interrogated by Police, Home Searched

May 13, 2010 Comments Off

Crackdown on Civil Society Continues (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, May 13, 2010) On the afternoon of May 11, officers from the National Security Unit under the Beijing Public Security Bureau (PSB) took freelance writer and human rights activist Wang Debang (王德邦) from his home in southwest Beijing and interrogated him (read more…)

U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue: Time to Make it Effective

May 12, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, May 10, 2010) On May 13, the governments of China and the United States are set to hold the next round of talks in the U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue. These dialogues, which have been held on 12 previous occasions since 1989, are widely viewed as not (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing May 4-10, 2010

May 11, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing May 4-10, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Beijing Human Rights Lawyers Have Licenses Revoked: Beijing human rights lawyers Tang Jitian (唐吉田) and Liu Wei (刘巍) were informed on the morning of May 7 that the Beijing Bureau (read more…)