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Hearing on Revocation of Lawyers’ Licenses Ends without Decision, Lawyers Condemn Baseless Punishment

April 22, 2010 Comments Off

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…)

China Human Rights Briefing April 13-19, 2010

April 21, 2010 Comments Off

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…)

Three Fujian Digital Activists Convicted as Thousands Gather in Landmark Protest

April 16, 2010 Comments Off

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- April 16, 2010) Fujian activists Fan Yanqiong (范燕琼), Wu Huaying (吴华英), and You Jingyou (游精佑) were convicted of “slander” today for posting articles and video online urging government officials to investigate the alleged rape and murder of a young woman. Fan, who is seriously ill, was (read more…)

Police Raid Home of Beijing Activist Gu Chuan as Pressure on Human Rights Defenders Increases

April 9, 2010 Comments Off

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…)

Chinese Government Must Release Critically Ill Activist Hu Jia on Humanitarian Grounds

April 8, 2010 Comments Off

(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…)

China Human Rights Briefing March 31-April 6, 2010

April 6, 2010 Comments Off

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…)

China Human Rights Briefing March 23-30, 2010

March 30, 2010 Comments Off

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…)

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…)