Chinese Human Rights Briefing August 3-9, 2012

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China Human Rights Briefing   August 3-9, 2012    To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Contents   Arbitrary Detention Villagers Detained and Tortured for Not Giving Back Demolition Compensation, One Given 10.5-year Sentence   Harassment of Activists’ Family Members Chinese Authorities’ Familiar Tactic: Threaten, Investigate (read more…)

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Update to UN on Gao Zhisheng – July 23, 2012

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To: UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances                                             Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) hereby respectfully submits an update concerning the enforced disappearance of Mr. GAO Zhisheng (高智晟), following the urgent appeal on behalf of Mr. Gao that we submitted on April 15, 2009. (See: “Communication on a Victim (read more…)

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Xi Jinping’s US Visit During Escalating Crackdown on Dissent in China Sends Wrong Signal

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The visit to Washington next week of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (习近平), the presumptive next president of China, comes during an escalating crackdown on political and religious dissent in China, and on the heels of China’s veto of a UN resolution condemning the ongoing killing of civilians by the (read more…)

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China Human Rights Briefing January 10-16, 2012

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China Human Rights Briefing   January 10-16, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here. Highlights  Detainees’ Families Denied, Granted Visits: Prison authorities recently blocked the family of disappeared human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng from visiting him in a Xinjiang prison, where he is reportedly (read more…)

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Chinese Police Must End Enforced Disappearances of Human Rights Activists

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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- February 18, 2011) More than two days after police officers forced open the door to his Beijing home and dragged him away, human rights lawyer Tang Jitian (唐吉田) remains missing. Though officials have stated he is in police custody, they have failed to produce any legal (read more…)

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Chinese Government Must End Persecution of Family Members of Activists

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Beating of Chen Guangcheng, Yuan Weijing Latest in Series of Abuses (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- February 11, 2011) On February 10, CHRD learned from a reliable source that human rights defender Chen Guangcheng (陈光诚) and his wife Yuan Weijing (袁伟静) were beaten by police in their Shandong Province home. It (read more…)

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U.S. Must Deliver on Promise of Making Human Rights the Guiding Principle of its China Policy

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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, January 17, 2011) In a speech before the United Nations last fall, President Obama emphasized that “part of the price of our own freedom is standing up for the freedom of others,” stating that “this belief will guide America’s leadership in this 21st century.” During Chinese (read more…)

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Submission to UN on Gao Zhisheng – April 15, 2009

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Communication on a Victim of an Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance   To: Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances     1. Identity of the disappeared person: (a) Family name (*): Gao (高) (b) First name (*):  Zhisheng (智晟) (c) Sex: Male (d) Date of birth: 1966 (e) Identity document (read more…)

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Lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s Whereabouts Unknown, Feared Detained by Police

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Lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s Whereabouts Unknown, Feared Detained by Police (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, September 25, 2007) – Gao Zhisheng (高智晟), a human rights lawyer, is feared detained by the Beijing police on September 22. All attempts to contact him or confirm his whereabouts with family have failed. On the afternoon (read more…)

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Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng Tried Behind Closed Door

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Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng Tried Behind Closed Door, without Lawyers Authorized by Family CRD protests the illegal trial of Gao Zhisheng, the human rights lawyer, by the Beijing Municipal No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court on December 12, 2006. Lawyers authorized by Gao’s family, Mo Shaoping and Ding Xikui, were (read more…)

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Abrogation of Rights in the Case of Gao Zhisheng

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Abrogation of Rights in the Case of Gao Zhisheng Immediate release CRD, November 16, 2006 Abrogation of Legal Rights and Human Rights in the Case of Gao Zhisheng: CRD Finds Arbitrary Detention, Interference in Independency of Lawyers, Retaliation against a Human Rights Defender, Violation of Freedom of Expression, Torture or (read more…)

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Submission to UN on Gao Zhisheng – November 15, 2006

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Communique to UN Special Procedures on Behalf of Gao Zhisheng, Alleging Arbitrary Detention, Interference in Independency of Lawyers, Retaliation against a Human Rights Defender, Violation of Freedom of Expression, and Torture or Cruel, Inhumane, Degrading Treatment To: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention   Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, (read more…)

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