Sex Male
Birth date 1970-02-05
Birth place Sui County, Hubei Province
Resident place Suizhou City, Hubei Province
Education Colleage
Profession Internet writer and former teacher, founder and chief editor of Minsheng Guancha (Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch) website (ICPC member) Continue reading
DrinkingBefore going to drink with my old brother
I will unplug my telephone Continue reading
Liu Xia： Two Poems under House Arrest已关闭评论
Posted in honorary Members, literature, Support Liu Xiaobo, Zhang Yu
Tagged House Arrest, Liu Xia, Poem
Dear Tienchi Martin-Liao, president of ICPC
You are well aware of how close to my heart the Independent Chinese PEN Centre is. In our troubled times, it is a sign of hope that you are meeting in Hong Kong to celebrate the centenary of the May Fourth Movement. PEN benefitted from this anti-imperialist movement and its defence of Chinese culture by including the active participation of Chinese writers as early as 1924, just after our first PEN International congress in 1923. Continue reading
Jennifer Clement wrote to Tienchi Martin-Liao已关闭评论
Posted in PEN International News
Tagged ICPC, Jennifer Clement
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan have allowed prominent human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong to return to his parents’ home, three days after his release at the end of a two-year jail term. Continue reading
Chinese Rights Lawyer Jiang Tianyong Allowed Home Visit, Still ‘Not Free’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion
Tagged Inciting Subversion, Jiang Tianyong
Xi Jinping takes a public oath of allegiance to the Constitution in the Great Hall of the People 13th National People’s Congress, Beijing, China Liu Feiyue is one of many Chinese human rights activists who have been swept up in Xi Jinping’s crackdown on dissent. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock
Flawed trial shows how Beijing abuses the judicial system to silence dissent, says Amnesty International
The founder of a prominent Chinese civil and human rights website has been sentenced to five years in prison for inciting state subversion, according to human rights organisations. Continue reading
Chinese activist Liu Feiyue given five years’ jail for ‘inciting subversion’已关闭评论
Posted in crackdown, Headlines, Internet Freedom, Press Freedom
Tagged Hubei, Inciting Subversion, Liu Feiyue, sentence
Wang Quanzhang went missing in a 2015 crackdown
China has sentenced prominent human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang to four and a half years in prison for state subversion.
Wang, 42, had defended political campaigners and victims of land seizures, as well as followers of the banned spiritual Falun Gong movement. Continue reading
Wang Quanzhang: China jails leading human rights lawyer已关闭评论
Posted in crackdown, Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion
Tagged sentence, subverting state power, Tianjin, Wang Quanzhang
The Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) was shocked to learn that Ms. Liu Yanli, ICPC member and well-known blogger was summoned by the police in Jingmen City, Hubei Province on November 21 2018. Her family was informed the next day that she was beaten up and sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. Her father and other family members then rushed to Jingmen. At the entrance of the Second People’s Hospital of Jingmen City, they were surrounded by several public security personnel and refused to enter the hospital to visit her. Immediately after that, the news was spread out that Liu Yanli was officially arrested with the approval by the procuratorate. Continue reading
Women’s Rights Have Been Repeatedly Violated in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, ICPC News, Internet Freedom
Tagged ICPC, Liu Yanli, Tian Yi, women writers
(Approved by the Assembly of Delegates of PEN International, meeting at its 84th World Congress, in Pune, India from 25-29 September 2018)
PEN International has for many years expressed concern about serious and sweeping restrictions on freedom of expression in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including through resolutions adopted at its annual Congresses, most recently at its 83rd World Congress in September 2017. Continue reading
PEN International: Resolution on the People’s Republic of China (2018)已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, Press Freedom
Tagged China, Congress, India, PEN International
