CHRD learned today that Xu Zhiyong (许志永), director of the recently-banned legal aid center Open Constitution Initiative (also known as Gongmeng [公盟]), was taken away by the police around 5am on July 29, Beijing local time. His whereabouts are currently unknown. Efforts to contact him have been unsuccessful as his (read more…)
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To download this edition of CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here China Human Rights Briefing Reporting human rights development from the grassroots July 20-26, 2009 Highlights In the latest case of an activist being punished merely for planning to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, CHRD (read more…)
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Huang Qi Reportedly Ill in Detention, Denied Access to Medical Attention (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, July 28, 2009) –CHRD confirmed today that Huang Qi (黄琦), detained human rights activist and director of Tianwang Human Rights Center (www.64tianwang.com), is ill in detention and being denied access to medical attention. Huang’s application (read more…)
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Environmentalist and Daughter Sent to Re-education through Labor Camps (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, July 16, 2009) – Sun Xiaodi (孙小弟), a Gansu environmental activist and recipient of the 2006 Nuclear-Free Future Award, has been sent to two years of Re-education through Labor (RTL). Sun’s daughter, Sun Haiyan (孙海燕, also known (read more…)
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Three Lawyers Detained for Defending Falun Gong Practitioners (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- July 15, 2009) CHRD learned today that three lawyers in different locations in Northeastern China have been detained in recent weeks by local authorities. The three, Liu Ruiping (刘如平), Wang Yonghang (王永航), and Wang Ping (王平), who have (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Reporting human rights development from the grassroots July 1-15, 2008 HIGHLIGHTS Less than a month before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government is taking security measures against activists and potential protesters on a scale unseen since the period immediately after the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. Many (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Reporting human rights development from the grassroots July 6 – 12, 2009 Highlights More information about the persecution of individuals trying to observe the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen massacre continues to surface. CHRD learned on July 11 that Ning Wenzhong (宁文忠), an internet writer based in (read more…)
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Chinese Government Must Allow Reporting and Investigation of Urumqi Violence Impartial Observation Critical to Ending Rights Abuses and Easing Ethnic Tension (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- July 6, 2009) In the aftermath of a day of violence sparked by the bloody suppression of protests in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, little (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Reporting human rights development from the grassroots June 29-July 5 HIGHLIGHTS On July 1, police detained and searched the home of Fuqing City, Fujian Province activist Wu Huaying (吴华英). This appears to be the latest in a series of actions taken against activists whom officials believe (read more…)
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Licenses of 18 Rights Lawyers Still not Renewed a Month after Deadline (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- July 2, 2009) A month after the May 31 deadline for lawyers to pass the annual review necessary for renewal of their licenses, at least eighteen human rights lawyers have not had their licenses (read more…)
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Fujian Activist Detained for Alleging Official Misconduct (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- June 30, 2009) – On June 26, Fan Yanqiong (范燕琼), a human rights defender from Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, was taken into police custody after she posted articles online alleging official misconduct and cover-ups in the case of a (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Reporting human rights development from the grassroots June 22-28 Highlights The formal arrest of Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), Charter 08 signatory and prominent intellectual, signals that the Chinese government has taken a hard-line approach towards suppressing the latest wave of the pro-democracy movement ushered in by Charter (read more…)
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