Birth date 1972-02-04
Birth place Dongkou County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province
Resident place Changsha City, Hunan Province Continue reading
Birth date 1972-02-04
Birth place Dongkou County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province
Resident place Changsha City, Hunan Province Continue reading
204. XIE YANG (Released)已关闭评论
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In Geneva, it does not go entirely unnoticed that China continues to engage in a sustained crackdown which aims to gag, discredit, or intimidate into silence virtually any dissenting voices in the country. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in his annual global update to the UN’s top human rights body, raised a number of serious concerns in Asian countries. On China specifically, he deplored ‘the intimidation and detention of lawyers and activists who seek the good of their community and nation’ and added: ‘I am also disturbed by cases of restrictions on cultural and religious rights, particularly in Xinjiang and Tibet’. Continue reading
HRC34 | Urge China to amend laws, investigate torture and release detained defenders已关闭评论
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Tagged Gui Minhai, Guo Feixiong, HRC34, Hu Shigen, ISHR, NGO, Torture, Xie Yang
Claims by official Chinese media that allegations of torture meted out to jailed human rights lawyer Xie Yang were “fake news” cooked up to appeal to “Western media tastes” were rejected by his defense lawyer on Thursday. Continue reading
Chinese Attorney Defends Torture Report Amid Accusations of ‘Fake News’已关闭评论
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Tagged 709, Chen Jiangang, confession, fake news, Jiang Tianyong, Torture, Xie Yang
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BEIJING Chinese state media said on Thursday that a prominent Chinese rights activist had made up “fake news” of torture to grab international headlines, but his defenders said the accusations were a coordinated attempt to smear his name. Continue reading
China accuses rights activist of ‘fake news’ fabricating torture已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged fake news, Jiang Tianyong, Torture, Xie Yang
A rights group on Tuesday called for the immediate release of detained Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang, detailing his lawyers’ reports of his torture in a police-run detention center in the central province of Hunan. Continue reading
Detained Chinese Rights Lawyer Files Complaint Over Torture in Detention已关闭评论
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Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang, January 21, 2017
Continued from Part One and Part Two
[The interview began at 2:49:55 p.m. on January 5, 2017.] Continue reading
Transcript of Interviews with Lawyer Xie Yang (3) – Dangling Chair, Beating, Threatening Lives of Loved Ones, and Framing Others已关闭评论
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Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang, January 20, 2017
Continued from Part One
(The interview started at 9:23:32 a.m. on January 5, 2017)
Chen Jiangang (陈建刚, “CHEN”): Today Lawyer Liu Zhengqing (刘正清) had to go back. Let’s continue our interview. Continue reading
Transcript of Interviews with Lawyer Xie Yang (2) – Sleep Deprivation已关闭评论
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Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang and Liu Zhengqing, January 19, 2017
In a series of interviews, the still incarcerated human rights lawyer Xie Yang provided a detailed account of his arrest, interrogations, and the horrific abuses he suffered at the hands of police and prosecutors, to his two defense lawyers Chen Jiangang (陈建刚) and Liu Zhengqing (刘正清). This revelation, and the extraordinary circumstances of it, mark an important turn in the 709 crackdown on human rights lawyers. This group, seen as the gravest threat to regime security, has not been crushed, but instead has become more courageous and more determined. This is the first of several installments in English translation. — The Editors Continue reading
Transcript of Interviews with Lawyer Xie Yang (1)已关闭评论
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