Crime: “conspiracy to commit subversion” Length of Punishment: 10 years Court: High Court, Hong Kong SAR Trial Date: 6 February 2023-May 30, 2024 (113 days) Sentencing Date: November 19, 2024 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: January 6, 2021 (arrest), January 7, 2021 (bail), February 28, 2021 (charged) Place of Incarceration: Stanley Prison, Hong Kong Verdict: HKSAR v NG Ching-hang (read more…)
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Crime: “inciting separatism” Length of Punishment: 14 years Court: Kardze Intermediate Court, Sichuan Province Trial Date: Unknown Sentencing Date: Unknown date in September 2022 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: March 2021 detained, date of arrest and indictment unknown Place of Incarceration: Unknown Gangkye Drubpa Kyab is a Tibetan writer and teacher whose published works include a book detailing the (read more…)
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Crime: “separatism,” “leaking state secrets,” and “organizing an illegal demonstration” Length of Punishment: Life sentence, reduced to 19 years and 8 months Court: Urumqi Intermediate Court Trial Date: Unknown date in April 2010 Sentencing Date: Unknown date in April 2010 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: July 14, 2009 (detained), arrest and indictment dates unknown Place of Incarceration: Xinjiang No. (read more…)
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Crime: Unknown Length of Punishment: 20 years Court: Lhasa Intermediate Court, Tibet Trial Date: Unknown Sentencing Date: Unknown date in 2010 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: Forcibly disappeared in 2008, exact date of criminal detention, arrest, and indictment unknown Place of Incarceration: Unknown Kunchok Nyima is a Tibetan monk and scholar from the Drepung Monastery. The Lhasa Intermediate Court (read more…)
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Crime: Unknown Length of Punishment: 20 years Court: Shigatse Intermediate Court, Tibet Trial Date: Unknown Sentencing Date: Unknown date in September 2020 Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: Detained in August or September 2019, exact date of criminal detention, arrest, and indictment unknown Place of Incarceration: Unknown Choegyal Wangpo is a Tibetan monk from the Tengdro Monastery. In September 2020, (read more…)
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Crime: “separatism” Length of Punishment: Life sentence Court: Unknown intermediate court in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Trial Date: Unknown date in December 2018 Sentencing Date: Unknown Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: Forcibly disappeared in December 2017, exact dates of criminal detention, arrest and indictment unknown Place of Incarceration: Unknown Appeal hearing date: Unknown Appeal court: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (read more…)
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Crime: “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” Length of Punishment: Court: Wuhan Hanyang District Court Trial Date: November 10, 2023 Sentencing Date: Dates of Detention/Arrest/Indictment: February 17, 2023; news of arrest and indictment on April 1, 2023 Place of Incarceration: Hanyang District Detention Center After losing his father to COVID-19 in 2020, Zhang Hai became one (read more…)
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On September 23, 2023, Rights Defense Network reported that Song Ze’s family was told by Wuhan state security officials that Song Ze had been formally arrested, but they would not give the family a written arrest notice or say what crime he was accused of.
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Ji Xiaolong was detained shortly after criticizing Shanghai’s Party Secretary, Li Qiang, and calling on him to step down and take accountability for that lockdown, and the “humanitarian disaster” it caused.
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As Cao Zhixin’s lawyers and family are unlawfully being prevented from seeing her, Cao remains in incommunicado detention, and as such, is at high risk of torture and other ill-treatment.
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Crime: NA Length of Punishment: NA Court: NA Trial Date: NA Sentencing Date: NA Dates of Being taken away/Detention/Arrest/Indictment: October 13, 2022 Place of Incarceration: NA Indictment: NA Defense statement: NA Verdict: NA On October 13, 2022 in Beijing, just days ahead of the 20th Party Congress, Peng Lifa (penname Peng Zaizhou 彭载舟)engaged in a one-man protest on the Sitong Bridge ((四通桥)) (read more…)
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Crime(s): “”; “inciting subversion” Length of Punishment: Court: Trial Date: Sentencing Date: Dates of Arrest: June 4, 2021 for “” Date of Arrest: September 8, 2021 for “inciting subversion” On 4 June 2021, Chow Hang-tung was arrested for allegedly promoting an unauthorized assembly on the 32ndanniversary of the pro-democracy Tiananmen movement. Every (read more…)
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