Ms Gao, seen here in a 2007 file picture, is a well-known investigative journalist
A Chinese court has upheld a guilty verdict against a senior journalist accused of leaking state secrets, her lawyer said.
Gao Yu did, however, receive a reduced sentence from seven years to five years in prison.
Ms Gao, who is 71, was found guilty last April and appealed her Continue reading
Gao Yu: Court upholds verdict for jailed Chinese journalist已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, Journalist
November 22, 2015
Students in Beijing on April 22, 1989, after the death of Hu Yaobang, who had been removed as Communist Party general secretary two years earlier. His death set off weeks of protests.
Catherine Henriette/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
China’s staunchly traditionalist Communist leader, Xi Jinping, paid tribute on Friday to a predecessor, Hu Yaobang, who was in many ways his opposite in temperament and politics.
Mr. Hu was a passionate liberalizer in the 1980s, Continue reading
China’s President Praises Hu Yaobang, a Fallen Party Reformer已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Hu Yaobang, June 4th, Tiananmen
2015-11-18
Guo Feixiong in a file photo.
Photo courtesy of Guo Feixiong
The wife of a Chinese rights lawyer who has been in movement-restricted solitary confinement with no fresh air or exercise for more than two years has hit out at his inhumane treatment as Beijing’s torture record is reviewed by the United Nations.
U.S.-based Zhang Qing, wife of jailed Chinese rights lawyer Continue reading
Chinese Lawyer’s Solitary Confinement Amounts to ‘Slow Torture’: Wife已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Guo Feixiong, Torture
Joyce Huang
November 20, 2015 5:32 AM
China has drawn international criticism over a crackdown on human rights lawyers this year, and there are reports that authorities may be planning even broader restrictions over the legal profession.
Remin University law professor Chen Weidong, who has helped draft legislation including amendments to China’s criminal law, said authorities may soon launch a mechanism to Continue reading
China’s Plan to ‘Rank’ Lawyers Faces Criticism已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Criticism, Human Rights Lawyer
2015-11-19
Chinese activists Xiewen Fei (L) and Wang Mo (R) are pictured in an undated photo.
(Photo courtesy of activists)
Two Chinese activists who publicly supported last year’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong stood trial for subversion at a court in the southern province of Guangdong on Thursday, their lawyers said.
Xie Wenfei and Wang Mo appeared at the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court on Thursday charged with “incitement to subvert state power” in a trial Continue reading
Activists Shout For a ‘Democratic China’ in Guangzhou Subversion Trial已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion, Writers in Prison
Tagged Subversion, Wang Mo, Xie Wenfei
2015-11-20
Crowds watch the unveiling of a statue of Hu Yaobang in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, in a file photo.
AFP
As the ruling Chinese Communist Party elite marked the centenary of a late ousted premier famed for reversing many of the injustices of the regime, police on Tiananmen Square detained a blind activist from Shanghai after he handed out leaflets protesting against government corruption.
In the highest-level public recognition Continue reading
Protester Held in Beijing Amid Tight Security on Hu Yaobang Anniversary已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Anniversary, Hu Yaobang, June 4th
Tohti, PEN International is renewing its call on the Chinese authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally. Continue reading
China: One year after court upholds life sentence, Uyghur PEN member Ilham Tohti must be released已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, honorary Members, PEN International News
Tagged Ilham Tohti, PEN, petition
2015-11-18
Jiang Yefei’s wife Gu Shuhua (1st right) and the couple’s daughter Dong Xuerui (2nd right) with activists ahead of their departure from Bangkok, Nov. 18, 2015.
Photo courtesy of an activist.
The families of two Chinese democracy activists handed over to Beijing by the Thai authorities left Bangkok en route to Canada for resettlement as refugees, Continue reading
Families of Deported Chinese Activists Leave Thailand For Canada已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Press Freedom
Tagged China, Dong Guangping, Jiang Yefei, Thailand, United Nations
