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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…)

Chinese Government Must End Persecution of Family Members of Activists

February 11, 2011 Comments Off

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…)

Submission to UN on Li Jinfang, Li Zhuyang, Zeng Jinyan, Xinna, Uiles, Wu Lingling, Duan Chunfang – February 2011

February 1, 2011 Comments Off

Communique on Harassment of the Relatives of Human Rights Defenders in 2010 1. Li Jinfang (李金芳) and Li Zhuyang (李竹阳), ex-wife and daughter of recently-released democracy activist Qin Yongmin (秦永敏) ● On July 1, fifteen police officers raided the Xianghe County, Hebei Province home of human rights defender Li Jinfang, (read more…)