China Human Rights Briefing Weekly June 8-14, 2010

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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly June 8-14, 2010 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Highlights CHRD Website Suffers Another DDOS Attack: CHRD’s Chinese-language website, https://www.nchrd.org, was once again been targeted by a Directed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attack. The site was inaccessible between midnight on June (read more…)

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Tan Zuoren’s Harsh Sentence Upheld by Sichuan High Court

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Tan Zuoren’s Harsh Sentence Upheld by Sichuan High Court (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- June 9, 2010) The Sichuan Provincial High People’s Court announced this morning that it had upheld the judgment of activist and environmentalist Tan Zuoren (谭作人). Tan was convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” in February 2010 (read more…)

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Activist Tan Zuoren Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for “Inciting Subversion”

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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- February 9, 2010) Tan Zuoren (谭作人), human rights activist and environmentalist, was sentenced today to five years in prison with an additional three years’ deprivation of political rights for “inciting subversion of state power” in Chengdu, Sichuan. According to his lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强), the court (read more…)

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Police Bar Public from Attending Trial of Earthquake Investigator Tan Zuoren

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Police Bar Public from Attending Trial of Earthquake Investigator Tan Zuoren (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, August 12, 2009)– Tan Zuoren (谭作人), a Sichuan activist detained for “inciting subversion of state power”, was tried today by the Chengdu City Intermediate People’s Court in Sichuan Province. The trial was practically closed to (read more…)

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One Year after Earthquake, Silence Imposed on Schoolchildren Deaths, Activists Harassed

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One Year after Earthquake, Silence Imposed on Schoolchildren Deaths, Activists Harassed Chinese Human Rights Defenders May 4, 2009 As the first anniversary of the devastating May 12 Sichuan Earthquake approaches, parents of children who died buried under collapsed schools have found little solace as officials continue to obstruct efforts to (read more…)

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Sichuan Activist Detained before Earthquake Anniversary

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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 1, 2009) – On March 28, Tan Zuoren (谭作人), an environmentalist and writer, was detained by Chengdu police on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power”, CHRD learned today. It is believed that Tan was detained for mobilizing volunteers to conduct an independent investigation of (read more…)

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Laoma Tihua (老妈蹄花), a documentary by Ai Weiwei

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A documentary named “laoma tihua” (老妈蹄花), by the well-known artist and architect Ai Weiwei, is about his experience in August 2009, when he was detained and beaten for trying to testify at the trial of Tan Zuoren (谭作人), a Sichuan activist held for “inciting subversion of state power.”

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