Communiqué on behalf of XIE Fulin, citizen of the People’s Republic of China ALLEGING ARBITRARY ARREST OR DETENTION, TORTURE, and VIOLATION OF RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION Submission to: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Special Rapporteur on torture and (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing February 7-13, 2012 To read this issue as a PDF, please go here. Top News Dissident’s Sentence Adds to String of Recent Harsh Punishments: On February 10, Hangzhou dissident Zhu Yufu was issued a seven-year sentence for “inciting subversion of state power.” Zhu’s punishment is (read more…)
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China Human Rights Briefing January 10-16, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here. Highlights Detainees’ Families Denied, Granted Visits: Prison authorities recently blocked the family of disappeared human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng from visiting him in a Xinjiang prison, where he is reportedly (read more…)
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