China Human Rights Briefing June 20-26, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Controls Tighten Around Activist Feng Zhenghu: Feng Zhenghu, the activist who now has been under house arrest in Shanghai for four months, continues to face (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing May 23-28, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Chen Guangcheng’s Relatives, Family Supporters in Tough Straits: Chen Guangfu, Chen Guangcheng’s brother tortured by Shandong police in April, recently fled Dongshigu Village for Beijing to (read more…)
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Two months before Chen Guangcheng (陈光诚) dramatically escaped from illegal house arrest in Shandong Province, activist and legal advocate Feng Zhenghu (冯正虎) was put under similar illegal detention in his home in Shanghai.
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China Human Rights Briefing May 4-8, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Concerns Abound Even After Chen Guangcheng Deal Struck: While the Chinese government has promised to allow the activist Chen Guangcheng and his family to go (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 28, 2010) As the 2010 Shanghai World Expo opens on May 1, conspicuously absent from the festivities will be the residents of Shanghai who have lost their homes, businesses, and freedom to exercise their rights in the government’s drive to bring its ambitious plans for (read more…)
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Shanghai Activist and Citizen Lawyer Feng Zhenghu Detained (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, June 6, 2008) – On June 5, Feng Zhenghu (冯正虎), a Shanghai rights activist and self-taught “citizen lawyer”, was administratively detained for ten days for “using other means to deliberately disrupt social order”. It is believed that Feng (read more…)
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