China Human Rights Briefing Weekly October 19-25, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Harassment of Activists Continues: CHRD continued to collect reports this week of activists, dissidents, and supporters of Liu Xiaobo who have been harassed, placed under police surveillance, or had (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly October 13-18, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB in a .pdf format, please click here Highlights Police Crack Down on Activists Following Nobel Prize Announcement: In addition to the stories included in the week’s China Human Rights Briefing, CHRD has created a page on our (read more…)
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CHRD has compiled a collection of reports documenting how Chinese citizens have reacted to the news that Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, and also how the Chinese government has acted to limit the spread of this information and prevent public or private commemorations of Liu’s achievement.
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly October 5-12, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Liu Xiaobo Awarded 2010 Nobel Peace Prize: On October 8, the Nobel Committee announced it had awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned activist, writer and intellectual Liu (read more…)
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CHRD Hails Decision to Award Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo Chinese government must immediately free Liu and all incarcerated human rights defenders (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, October 8, 2010) – CHRD hails the Nobel Committee’s announcement and congratulates the imprisoned activist, writer and intellectual, Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly September 22-29, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights Chengdu Court protestors sentenced: Ten activists were convicted of “assembling a crowd to disrupt social order” on September 28 for protesting outside the Chengdu City Intermediate Court in 2009. (read more…)
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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, February 11, 2010) – CHRD learned today that the Beijing Municipal High Court rejected the appeal of Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), China’s best-known dissident intellectual and human rights activist. Liu was convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced to eleven years in prison on December (read more…)
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Liu Xiaobo Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison Conviction Signals Increased Political Intolerance, Makes a Mockery of Rule of Law (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, December 25, 2009) – Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), China’s best-known dissident intellectual, was convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” today by the Beijing No. 1 Municipal (read more…)
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Urgent Action Liu Xiaobo to be Tried for “Inciting Subversion of State Power” on December 23 (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- December 21, 2009) CHRD has learned that detained activist and intellectual Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) will be tried for “inciting subversion of state power” at 9 am on December 23 at (read more…)
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Urgent Action Human Rights Day in China: Liu Xiaobo Accused of “Major Crime” for Drafting Charter 08 (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, December 9, 2009) – According to documents submitted by the Beijing Public Security Bureau (PSB) to the Beijing Municipal Procuratorate at the conclusion of the PSB’s investigation, detained activist (read more…)
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‘Investigation Period’ Extended for Detained Activist Intellectual Liu Xiaobo (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, September 1, 2009) – On August 31, detained Beijing writer and intellectual Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) met with his lawyers Ding Xihui (丁锡奎) and Shang Baojun (尚宝军) for the third time since his detention began last December. The (read more…)
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Urgent Appeal Alleging Arbitrary Detention to Penalize Freedom of Expression of PRC Candidate/Human Rights Defender Liu Xiaobo To: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders I. IDENTITY 1. Family name: Liu (刘) 2. First name: Xiaobo (read more…)
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