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Submission to UN on Wang Lihong – July 5, 2011 (updated: December 2011)

December 21, 2011 Comments Off

Communiqué on behalf of Wang Lihong, citizen of People’s Republic of China, Alleging Arbitrary Arrest or Detention and Persecution of Human Rights Defenders and Violation of Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly I. IDENTITY 1. Family name: WANG (王) 2. First name: Lihong (荔蕻) 3. Sex: Female 4. Birth date (read more…)

Escalating Crackdown Following Call for “Jasmine Revolution” in China

March 31, 2011 Comments Off

International Community Must Take Strong and Clear Stance Condemning Rights Violations by the Chinese Government (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, March 31, 2011) – The Chinese government has criminally detained a total of 26 individuals, disappeared more than 30, and put more than 200 under soft detention since mid-February after anonymous (read more…)

Honoring Chinese Women Human Rights Defenders

March 8, 2011 Comments Off

(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…)