Honoring Chinese Women Human Rights Defenders

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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, March 8, 2011) International Women’s Day presents an opportunity to recognize both the important role that women play in the Chinese rights defense (weiquan) movement as well as the persecution faced by Chinese women either as a result of their activism, their relationship to other activists, (read more…)

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Incarcerated Human Rights Defender Liu Jie Tortured

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Incarcerated Human Rights Defender Liu Jie Tortured (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, June 11, 2008) – CHRD learned today that Liu Jie (刘杰), human rights activist and petitioner currently serving 18 months of Re-education through Labor (RTL), was tortured in late May. On May 22[1], Liu was transferred from Qiqihar RTL (read more…)

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Submission to UN on Liu Jie – March 6, 2008

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Questionnaire completed by Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Alleging Arbitrary Detention of Liu Jie To The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders     I. IDENTITY 1. Family name: Liu 2. First name: (read more…)

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Human Rights Defender Liu Jie’s Re-education through Labor Decision Upheld

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Human Rights Defender Liu Jie’s Re-education through Labor Decision Upheld (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, February 22, 2008)- On February 19, Heilongjiang Re-education through Labor (RTL) Management Committee rejected Liu Jie’s (刘杰) application for an administrative review of the decision to send her to the RTL camp. Ms. Liu has decided (read more…)

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Human Rights Defender Liu Jie Denied Treatment for Eye Illness at RTL Camp

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Human Rights Defender Liu Jie Denied Treatment for Eye Illness at RTL Camp (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, December 28, 2007)- Liu Jie (刘杰), veteran rural campaigner and human rights activist serving her 18-month Re-education through Labor (RTL) terms in Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang province, will go blind if she does not receive (read more…)

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Human Rights Defender Liu Jie Sentenced to Re-Education through Labor

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Human Rights Defender Liu Jie Sentenced to Re-Education through Labor Chinese authorities must stop using Re-Education through Labor camps and arbitrary detention to penalize activists (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, November 12, 2007) – Veteran rural campaigner and human rights activist, Liu Jie (刘杰), 55 years old, of Beian City, Heilongjiang (read more…)

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Police Detain Organizers of Open Letter to 17th Party Congress

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Police Detain Organizers of Open Letter to 17th Party Congress Government must fulfil pledge to protect human rights defenders (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, October 22 , 2007)- Liu Jie (刘杰), of Beian City, Heilongjiang Province, was detained on October 13 for suspicion of “gathering crowds to disturb social order.” She (read more…)

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Organizer of Open Letter to Party Congress Seized by Police

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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Oct 11, 2007)- Liu Jie (刘杰) was seized by Beijing police around noon on October 11. Ms. Liu, 55, an activist for the rights to complain and to seek justice, was the lead organizer of a public letter signed by 12,150 petitioners calling on Chinese Communist (read more…)

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