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…)
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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…)
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(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…)
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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…)
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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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