Shanghai activist Cui Fufang (崔福芳) was handed a one-year RTL punishment in October 2012, allegedly for attending a memorial for the mother of activist Wang Kouma (王扣玛) that January. A month before this RTL decision came down, and despite having been put under house arrest, Cui was criminally detained on (read more…)
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Wang Dengchao, a Shenzhen policeman and an advocate for democratic reforms, was given a 14-year sentence in November 2012 (and fined 20,000 yuan) on trumped-up charges of “embezzlement” and “disrupting official business.” Wang was also required to return 2.8 million yuan that he supposedly had taken.
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Xu Wanping, a democracy and human rights activist, is serving a 12-year sentence for “inciting subversion of state power,” handed down in December 2005. The verdict is believed to come in retaliation for Xu’s efforts to establish the “China Action Party” and a local branch of “China Democracy Party.”
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In September of 2012, Henan rights activist Zhou Decai was given a 5-year prison sentence on a charge of “assembling a crowd to disrupt social order,” in retaliation for his longtime rights defense efforts. The court that sentenced him cited a clash between farmers and police that Zhou had allegedly (read more…)
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A veteran Democracy Wall activist in the 1970s, Zhu was taken away by police in Zhejiang Province in March of 2011, and criminally detained on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power.” In July, his wife appealed to authorities to release Zhu on bail due to his longstanding poor health, (read more…)
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Yuan was taken into police custody in Beijing in May of 2008 and then formally arrested on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power” the next month. According to the Jixi City People’s Procuratorate, Yuan had “incited subversion” due to several activities, including distributing an article entitled “Save China, Implement (read more…)
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Yang Tongyan (pen name: Yang Tianshui, 杨天水) is a dissident writer and member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, and has published numerous political essays online. Since 2006, Tang has been serving another sentence in Nanjing Prison for “subversion of state power” for his role in organizing the China Democracy (read more…)
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Yang Chunlin became involved in human rights activities after he was laid off from his work in Heilongjiang Province. He was detained in July of 2007 and arrested that August on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power” for collecting signatures to endorse the open letter in the run-up to (read more…)
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Seized in February 2011 as part of the “Jasmine Crackdown,” Hangzhou activist Xue Mingkai, born on October 8, 1989, was formally arrested for “inciting subversion of state power” but later reportedly convicted of “subversion” and sentenced to four years in prison. Many details of his case, including evidence used to (read more…)
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Xu Kun, an elected director of village committee in Baihutou Village in Beihai City, led villagers in resisting forced home demolitions and requisitioning of beachfront land on which residents had operated businesses to supplement their income from fishing. Born on June 20, 1974, Xu was detained in May 2010—for “operating (read more…)
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In July of 2009, police officers in Changsha City, Hunan Province took Xie Fulin away for “investigation,” and the next month he was criminally detained on suspicion of “stealing electricity” and formally arrested. Sentenced to 6 years in prison, Xie has suffered from serious illnesses that have gone poorly treated (read more…)
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A member of the China Democracy Party and an activist since the 1970s, Xie Changfa became a victim of the nationwide crackdown on activists and dissidents in the name of “Olympics security” prior to the Beijing Games in summer of 2008. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison for (read more…)
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