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Following Major Announcements by Google and Go Daddy Regarding China Services, Hackers Strike Chinese Human Rights Defenders Website

March 30, 2010 Comments Off

(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…)

China Human Rights Briefing March 16-22, 2010

March 23, 2010 Comments Off

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…)

China Human Rights Briefing March 9-15, 2010

March 16, 2010 Comments Off

To download this week’s edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here China Human Rights Briefing March 9-15, 2010 Highlights: CHRD learned this week that the Mawei District Court in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province will announce a verdict in the case against activists Fan Yanqiong (范燕琼), Wu Huaying (read more…)

Police Raid Home of Human Rights Defender and Charter 08 Signatory Xie Qiang

March 11, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- March 11, 2010) On March 10, Beijing police interrogated human rights defender Xie Qiang (谢强) for the second time in as many weeks. Nine days earlier, on March 1, police raided his home, seizing computers and personal property. Xie, a signatory to and promoter of Charter (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing March 2-8, 2010

March 9, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing March 2-8, 2010 Highlights Harassment of Sensitive Individuals Continues as Government Meetings Begin: CHRD has documented more than 60 cases of individuals around the country harassed, detained, or subjected to restrictions on their movement by officials during the “Two Meetings” of the National People’s Congress and (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing February 26- March 1, 2010

March 6, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing February 26- March 1, 2010 Headlines Jilin Government Website Details Targeting of Political Publications during “Anti-Pornography” Campaign Hubei Teachers’ Organizer Released from RTL, Compensated after 3 Months of Detention Hunger Strike by Death Row Inmates Underlines Use of Torture, Failure of Courts Officials Increase Harassment of (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefings February 20-25, 2010

March 3, 2010 Comments Off

Headlines Citizens’ Actions Artists March on Chang’an Avenue to Protest against Forced Eviction Freedom of Expression Kunming Dissident Questioned over Support for Charter 08, Liu Xiaobo Site Devoted to Academic Exchange Blocked Forced Demolition and Eviction Beijing Police Meet With Artists Following 2/22 Protest, Discuss Forced Evictions Jiangsu Man Sentenced (read more…)

Hunger Strike by Death Row Inmates Underlines Use of Torture, Failure of Courts

March 1, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- February 26, 2010) CHRD has learned that three death row inmates are staging a hunger strike in a Jiangxi prison to draw attention to their convictions, which have been upheld despite a lack of evidence and shocking abuses perpetrated by police assigned to their case. Fang (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefings February 12-19

February 20, 2010 Comments Off

Arbitrary Detention Shanghai Activist Tong Guojing Sent to RTL on Eve of Chinese New Year Harassment of Activists Feng Zhenghu Returns Home Beijing Police Break up Food Distribution for Stranded Petitioners, Briefly Detain Volunteer Labor Rights Many Workers Injured, One Critically, Following Protest over Unpaid Wages Forced Eviction and Demolition (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefings February 6-11, 2010

February 17, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing February 6-11, 2010 Headlines Arbitrary Detention Tan Zuoren Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for “Inciting Subversion of State Power” Shenzhen Worker Sentenced to 1.5 Years for “Subversion of State Power” Sentence Upheld for Liu Xiaobo; Beijing Activists Prevented from Attending Hearing Conviction Upheld Without Hearing (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefings January 30-February 5, 2010

February 17, 2010 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing January 30-February 5, 2010 Harassment of Activists Beijing Dissidents Cha Jianguo and Gao Hongming Subjected to Soft Detention Forced Eviction and Demolition Two Jiangsu Residents Seriously Injured in Forced Eviction Six Injured in Clash between Developer and Landholders in Guangxi Legal Rights Appeals Hearing for Li (read more…)

Jail Sentence Upheld for Activist Liu Xiaobo

February 11, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, February 11, 2010) – CHRD learned today that the Beijing Municipal High Court rejected the appeal of Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), China’s best-known dissident intellectual and human rights activist. Liu was convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced to eleven years in prison on December (read more…)