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Urgent Plea to End Arbitrary Detention of Chen Guangcheng

August 3, 2006 Comments Off

Urgent Plea to the Standing Committee of the NPC, the Standing Committee of the Shandong People’s Congress, the SPP, the Shandong People’s Procuratorate, the Ministry of Supervision, and the Shandong Supervision Bureau Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and Standing Committee of the Shandong People’s Congress: People’s Republic of (read more…)

CRD & RSF Petition French Authorities on Chen Guangcheng

July 20, 2006 Comments Off

Monsieur Pascal Clément Garde des Sceaux Ministère de la Justice Place Vendôme Paris Paris, le 19 juillet 2006 Monsieur le ministre, Alors que le ministre chinois de la Sécurité publique Zhou Yongkang est actuellement en France, nous souhaitons attirer votre attention sur la situation d’un avocat chinois emprisonné, Chen Guangcheng. (read more…)

Urgent Appeal Calling for Release of Chen Guangcheng

July 15, 2006 Comments Off

For immediate release CRD July 14, 2006 With trial of Chen Guangcheng imminent, activists issue urgent appeal calling for his immediate release and for launch of investigation into illegal acts committed in Linyi City In an urgent petition issued on July 13, 2006, independent groups and individuals, including a number (read more…)

Holding China Accountable for Its Failures to Honor its Commitments

July 2, 2006 Comments Off

Holding China Accountable for Its Failures to Honor its Commitments to International Human Rights: Appeal to the UN’s Human Rights Bodies on Behalf of Chen Guangcheng, Calling for Urgent Action and Country Visit Chen Guangcheng, male, 35, the blind self-taught lawyer and human rights activist, who became internationally known for (read more…)

Joint Statement on Criminal Detention of Chen Guangcheng

June 17, 2006 Comments Off

For immediate release, June 16, 2006 Joint Statement on Criminal Detention of Chen Guangcheng On June 11, Yuan Weijing, wife of human rights defender Chen Guangcheng, was notified by the Linyi City Yinan County Public Security Bureau that her husband had been charged with “deliberate destruction of property” and “gathering (read more…)

Nanhai farmers abducted by plainclothes officials, trumped up charges likely to follow

June 14, 2006 Comments Off

The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders For immediate release June 12, 2006 Nanhai farmers abducted by plainclothes officials, trumped up charges likely to follow CRD condemns the abduction of six villagers by men in plainclothes presumed to be security personnel in Sanshan Township, Nanhai, Guangdong Province, on June 8-9, (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing June 2-13,2006

June 13, 2006 Comments Off

June 13: After 89 days of illegal detention, Shandong rights activist Chen Guangcheng faces charges On June 11, Yuan Weijing, wife of the human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, was notified by the Yinan County Public Security Bureau that her husband had been charged with “deliberate destruction of property” and “organizing (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing May 12-June 1, 2006

June 1, 2006 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing (May 12-June1, 2006) June 1: “Tiananmen Mothers” leader Ding Zilin urges remembering “6.4” On May 28, the leader of the Tiananmen Mothers movement, Ding Zilin, who lost her son during the June 4th Massacre in Beijing in 1989, wrote an open letter to endorse US Congressman (read more…)

Revenge on Dongzhou Villagers: Convictions Based on Travesty of Justice

May 27, 2006 Comments Off

Joint statement by CRD & Citizens’ Rights Defense Net (gongmin weiquanwang) May 26, 2006 Revenge on Dongzhou Villagers: Convictions Based on Travesty of Justice We condemn the blatantly unfair trials of 19 Dongzhou villagers. The convictions can only be described as retribution by local authorities for the villagers’ long-standing campaign (read more…)

As Annan arrives in China, families of detained activists ask him to hold China to its commitments to human rights

May 21, 2006 Comments Off

CRD Release May 20, 2006 As Annan arrives in China, families of detained activists ask him to hold China to its commitments to human rights On the eve of the arrival of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in China, the families of three men who are in custody due to (read more…)

CRD deplores criminalizing free expression, demands release of journalist

May 16, 2006 Comments Off

CRD Release, May 16, 2006 CRD deplores criminalizing free expression, demands release of journalist Li Yuanlong CRD has confirmed reports that Li Yuanlong, a journalist at Bijie Daily in Guizhou Province, was tried for “subversion of state power” at the Bijie Intermediate People’s Court on May 11. CRD views the (read more…)

China Human Rights Briefing May 1-14, 2006

May 14, 2006 Comments Off

China Human Rights Briefing (May 1-14, 2006) May 14: Internet Writer Tried on Subversion Charge, Prosecutor Introduced Coerced “Confession” Li Yuanlong, a journalist at Bijie Daily in Guizhou Province, was tried for “subversion of state power” at the Bijie Intermediate People’s Court on May 11. Some 20 family members, friends, (read more…)