“China vs a Blind Human Rights Defender,” published by CHRD on February 20, 2007, details the illegal house arrest, detention, imprisonment, torture and other rights violations directed against Shandong rights activist Chen Guangcheng, as well as his family and supporters, since April 2005. Read this report as a PDF
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Immediate Release The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders January 12, 2007 Show Trials Highlight Deep Flaws in System: Court Upheld Unfair Prison Term for Chen Guangcheng The Linyi Municipal Intermediate People’s Court announced its verdict today of uphelding the 4-year and 3-month sentence of Chen Guangcheng for “gathering crowds (read more…)
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Immediate release CRD, December 27, 2006 CRD Condemns Violent Attack on Lawyers Representing China’s Blind Prisoner of Conscience Apparently as part of the persistent efforts by local authorities at intimidation and retaliation against independent lawyers, unidentified hit-men violently attacked lawyers for Chen Guangcheng, the blind prisoner of conscience, who is (read more…)
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Immediate release CRD, December 6, 2006 Obstruction of Justice: Key Witness Abducted by Police before the Retrial of Chen Guangcheng CRD protests Yinan County police abduction and subsequent detention of a key witness in the Chen Guangcheng case before the Yinan courts held its second hearing. This is a clear (read more…)
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Immediate release The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders December 1, 2006 Chen Guangcheng Retrial Confirms Jail Term: Gross Injustice, Blatant Abuses Serious rights abuses and procedural violations marred the November 27 retrial of Chen Guangcheng, which, not surprisingly, let to today’s verdict, announced at 8:30 am by the Yinan (read more…)
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CRD Welcomes Linyi Court Decision to Overturn Lower Court Verdict on Chen Guangcheng; Urges Fair Retrial The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders Immediate Release Beijing, November 1, 2006 CRD Welcomes Linyi Court Decision to Overturn Lower Court Verdict on Chen Guangcheng; Urges Fair Retrial CRD welcomes the Linyi City (read more…)
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Update Communique to UN Special Procedures on the case of Chen Guangcheng To: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Special Representative of the Secretary General for Human Rights Defenders Special Rapporteur on Torture (read more…)
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For immediate release, August 17, 2006 Chen Guangcheng Trial Opens Tomorrow: CRD Calls for Justice for the Advocate for Rights of Family Planning Victims and People with Disability As the trial of Chen Guangcheng opens tomorrow, CRD calls for international monitoring, urging a fair trial, and asking the Chinese court (read more…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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