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…)
Read more
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…)
Read more
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…)
Read more
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…)
Read more
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…)
Read more
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…)
Read more
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…)
Read more
(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…)
Read more
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…)
Read more
China Human Rights Briefing Weekly April 27- May 3, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Detentions, Harassment Continue as World Expo Opens: As CHRD reported in an April 28 press release, officials in Shanghai and around the country have been detaining, harassing, (read more…)
Read more
(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 28, 2010) As the 2010 Shanghai World Expo opens on May 1, conspicuously absent from the festivities will be the residents of Shanghai who have lost their homes, businesses, and freedom to exercise their rights in the government’s drive to bring its ambitious plans for (read more…)
Read more
China Human Rights Briefing Weekly April 20-26, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Hearing Held Regarding License Revocation for Two Human Rights Lawyers: On April 22, human rights lawyers Liu Wei (刘巍) and Tang Jitian (唐吉田) attended a hearing concerning the proposed (read more…)
Read more