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…)
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(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…)
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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…)
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Hearing on Revocation of Lawyers’ Licenses Ends without Decision, Lawyers Condemn Baseless Punishment (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 22, 2010) -About 200 lawyers, activists and petitioners gathered outside of the building of the Beijing Bureau of Justice (BBJ) this morning in a show of strong support to human rights lawyers (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly April 13-19, 2010 Please click here for a pdf version Highlights Internet Activists Sentenced for Online Posting: Three internet activists from Fujian Province were convicted of “slander” and sentenced to between one and two years of imprisonment on April 16. The three were punished for (read more…)
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Police Raid Home of Beijing Activist Gu Chuan as Pressure on Human Rights Defenders Increases (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- April 9, 2010) Plainclothes police officers seized writer and human rights activist Gu Chuan (古川) as he left his Beijing home this morning, taking him in for seven hours of interrogation. (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- April 8, 2010) According to his wife, Zeng Jinyan (曾金燕), imprisoned human rights activist Hu Jia (胡佳) may be suffering from liver cancer. Zeng, who has applied to prison officials in Beijing for Hu’s release on medical parole, describes in documents obtained by CHRD how Hu’s (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly March 31-April 6, 2010 To download this week’s edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights CHRD’s website still inaccessible, temporary website also attacked: CHRD’s Chinese-language website, www.crd-net.org, remains inaccessible following directed denial of service (DDoS) attacks which began on March 25. (read more…)
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To download this week’s edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here China Human Rights Briefing March 23-30, 2010 Highlights CHRD Website Hacked on Heels of Google, Go Daddy Statements: CHRD’s Chinese-language website, www.crd-net.org, was targeted for the second time this year by a series of directed denial (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, March 29, 2010) CHRD’s Chinese-language website, https://www.nchrd.org, has been rendered inaccessible for more than four days by a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, the worst such attacks in the site’s history. Hackers launched attacks against servers hosting the site beginning March 25, and as of (read more…)
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To download this week’s edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here China Human Rights Briefing March 16-22, 2010 Highlights Surprising those who were expecting a verdict to be issued, the Mawei District Court in Fuzhou sent the case against rights activists Fan Yanqiong (范燕琼), Wu Huaying (吴华英), (read more…)
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