Jia Lingmin 贾灵敏 (released) Crime: Creating a disturbance Length of Punishment: 4 years Court: Gongyi City People’s Court, Zhengzhou, Henan Province Trial Date: June 2, 2015 Sentencing Date: November 5, 2015 Dates of Detention/Arrest: May 7, 2014 (detained); May 30, 2014 (arrested) Place of Incarceration: Xinxiang Women’s Prison, Henan Province (read more…)
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Han Ying 韩颖 (released) Crime: Creating a disturbance Length of Punishment: N/A Court: N/A Trial Date: N/A Sentencing Date: N/A Dates of Detention/Arrest: October 1, 2014 (detained); November 6, 2014 (arrested); May 30, 2015 (released on bail) Place of Incarceration: Fengtai District Detention Center (Beijing Municipality) Background Police forcibly entered the (read more…)
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Ding Hongfen 丁红芬 (released) Crime: Intentional damage to property Length of Punishment: 21 months Court: Binhu District People’s Court (Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province) Trial Date: October 25-26, 2014 Sentencing Date: November 27, 2014 Dates of Detention/Arrest: June 23, 2013 (detained), May 29, 2014 (arrested); June 11, 2015 (released) Place (read more…)
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Gao Yu 高瑜 (released on medical parole) *Previously under medical watch Crime: Illegally disseminating state secrets overseas Length of Punishment: Seven years Court: Beijing No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court Trial Date: November 21, 2014 Sentencing Date: April 17, 2015 Dates of Detention/Arrest: April 24, 2014 (detained); May 30, 2014 (arrested); November (read more…)
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Zhao Haitong 赵海通 Crime: Inciting subversion of state power Length of Punishment: 14 years Court: Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) Trial Date: May 13, 2014 Sentencing Date: Unknown Dates of Detention/Arrest: August 10, 2013 (detained); September 12, 2013 (arrested) Place of Incarceration: Wusu City Prison Appeal Sentencing (read more…)
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Fujian-based activist Lin Yingqiang (林应强) was intercepted in Beijing during the Chinese Communist Party’s Third Plenum as he tried to raise awareness about corruption in his home province. His family lost contact with him after Lin told them that he was seized and detained in a “black jail,” an extralegal (read more…)
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Activist Cao Shunli’s death on March 14, 2014, showed the lengths that China’s leaders are willing to go to suppress civil society voices. Cao Shunli unwaveringly pursued the goal to make use of international human rights mechanisms to improve rights conditions in China. As she said: “In China, those involved (read more…)
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Beijing police seized Yuan Dong along with three fellow activists, Ma Xinli (马新利), Zhang Baocheng (张宝成) and Hou Xin (侯欣) in March 2013 after they held a demonstration in Beijing’s Xidan district calling on officials to disclose their wealth. The protest was part of an anti-corruption campaign that began in (read more…)
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Li Wei, born 1971, was detained in April 2013 after taking part in demonstrations to protest the banning of Annie Zhang (张安妮), the daughter of Anhui dissident Zhang Lin (张林), from attending school. Prior to his current detention, he was actively involved in the New Citizens’ Movement, a loose network (read more…)
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Hubei-based democracy activist Liu Jiacai (刘家财) was administratively detained for “disrupting public order” for 10 days in August 2013, but on the day of his release, police criminally detained Liu on suspicion of the more serious criminal charge of “inciting subversion.” Prior to his detention, Liu had posted and shared (read more…)
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Guangzhou-based human rights lawyer Tang Jingling was criminally detained in mid-May 2014 on suspicion of “creating a disturbance.” After police seized Tang, they searched his residence and confiscated a laptop, a tablet computer, cell phones, and books. On the same day, police took into custody two other Guangzhou activists, Wang (read more…)
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Guangdong-based activist Sun Desheng (孙德胜, also known as Sun Sihuo 孙思火) was seized and criminally detained on August 13, 2013. Authorities held Sun incommunicado until they transferred him to residential surveillance. He was formally arrested that October and moved into a detention facility. His participation in several civil society campaigns (read more…)
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