By Paul Eckert
2015-07-24
Tibetan demonstrators urge the IOC to reject the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics bid in a protest in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 10, 2015.
AFP
A group of Chinese intellectuals on Friday called on the International Olympic Committee to reject Beijing’s bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics to Beijing, arguing that China failed to keep the promises of Continue reading
Chinese Activists Urge IOC to Reject Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympics Bid已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Beijing, Human Rights Activists, Winter Olympics
2015-07-23
Ye Xiaozheng displays a banner saying ‘Protesting for Freedom’ in a photo posted to social media.
Photo courtesy of CHRD
An activist from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong stood trial on Thursday for subversion after he showed online support for last year’s pro-democracy Occupy Central movement in neighboring Hong Kong.
Ye Xiaozheng, known online by his nickname Humian Yizhou (“A boat on the lake”), Continue reading
China Tries Activist Who Supported Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Ye Xiaozheng
Reuters
July 19, 2015 7:47 AM
BEIJING—Chinese human rights lawyers arrested during a recent crackdown have pleaded guilty to a range of offenses including inciting disorder, the country’s main Communist Party newspaper reported on Sunday.
Nine lawyers and four other staff members at the Fengrui legal Continue reading
Detained Chinese Lawyers Plead Guilty to Disorder Charges已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged China, Detained, Human Rights Lawyer
2015-07-22
Tang Jingling, a top human rights lawyer in Guangzhou, and his wife Wang Yanfang in an undated photo.
(Photo courtesy of Wang Yanfang.)
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have placed a number of rights activists under surveillance, issuing warnings not to try to attend the continued subversion trial of the “Guangzhou Three” activists later this week, activists and lawyers said on Wednesday.
Rights lawyer Tang Jingling, former teacher Wang Qingying, Continue reading
Activists Warned Off Attending Subversion Trial of ‘Guangzhou Three’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Subversion, Tang Jingling, Wang Qingying, Yuan Xinting
China Change, published: July 5, 2015
A NEW REPORT DOCUMENTS THE TORTURE OF LAWYERS IN CHINA 2006 – 2015.
Violent beatings to the head, electric shocks, forced feeding, injection with drugs, sexual violence, suffocation, denial of toilet, solitary confinement, forced smoke inhalation, and burning.
These are some of the forms of torture that Chinese security forces Continue reading
Cataloging the Torture of Lawyers in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged China, Human Rights Lawyer, Torture
2015-07-17
Demonstrators call for press freedom in support of journalists from Southern Weekend newspaper in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong province, Jan. 8, 2013.
AFP
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has promoted a propaganda official whose reported rewriting of a New Year front page editorial in the cutting-edge magazine Southern Weekend prompted a strike and days of protests in early 2013.
Tuo Zhen, 59, who is believed to have rewritten Continue reading
Rise of Guangdong Propaganda Chief a Sign of Further Media Controls to Come已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Press Freedom, Southern Weekend
2015-07-17
Beijing-based lawyer Wang Yu in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Wang Yu’s microblog
Police in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin have taken the 16-year-old son of detained rights attorney Wang Yu from his home amid an ongoing crackdown on the country’s embattled legal profession, lawyers told RFA on Friday.
Wang’s detention on July 9 came amid a raid on her law firm, Fengrui, Continue reading
Lawyer’s Teen Son Missing in Widening Crackdown on China’s Rights Attorneys已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged China, Detained, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
2015-07-16
Three top Chinese rights lawyers are at “grave risk of torture” amid a massive police operation targeting the country’s embattled legal profession, an international rights group said on Thursday.
Some 200 lawyers, paralegals, and rights activists have been targeted by China’s Continue reading
Chinese Lawyers ‘At Risk of Torture’ as Crackdown Continues已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged China, Detained, Human Rights Lawyer
