Monthly Archives: 5月 2015

For Whom the Bell Tolls: One Chinese NGO’s Alleged Crime of “Illegal Business Operation”

By Wan Yanhai, published: May 13, 2015

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GUO YUSHAN (郭玉闪)

In March 2007, Guo Yushan (郭玉闪)and others co-founded Transition Social and Economic Consulting Limited, otherwise known as Beijing Transition Institute. In July 2013, Continue reading

China Indicts Top Rights Lawyer on Ethnic Hatred Charge

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Pu Zhiqiang (C), the lawyer for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, talks to the media at the artist’s studio in Beijing, Nov. 14, 2011.
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Authorities in the Chinese capital on Friday indicted a prominent rights lawyer for Continue reading

Tibetans, Uyghurs ‘Blacklisted’ at Hotels in Chinese Cities

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Security forces participate in a military drill in Hotan, Xinjiang, June 6, 2014.
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Tibetans and members of the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group have been placed Continue reading

HO PIN: Gao Yu’s Real Crime

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One evening in June 2013, I received a call from a man who identified himself as an official for the Chinese Communist Party’s Propaganda Department in Beijing. Continue reading

China Reforms to Curb Torture Don’t Go Far Enough-Human Rights Watch

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Geng He, wife of China’s leading human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, speaks at a press conference in Washington, Sept. 9, 2014.
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Measures introduced by China over the past six years to curb torture and mistreatment of criminal detainees have not done enough to reduce abuses, Continue reading

China Jails Citizen Activist For Five Years on Subversion Charge

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Liu Jiacai was initially detained by police in Hubei’s Yichang city on Aug. 3, 2013.
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Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei on Monday handed a five-year jail term Continue reading

Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Massacre Museum Under Pressure: Activists

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6d511801-eda3-47d8-9923-d7f917639cfeHong Kong citizens attend a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown on June 4, 2014.
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Hong Kong activists running a museum dedicated to the 1989 student-led protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Continue reading

Chinese Province Issues Draft Regulation on Church Crosses

 

By MICHAEL FORSYTHEMAY 8, 2015

HONG KONG — Cities in Zhejiang, one of China’s most prosperous provinces, are studded with Christian churches, Protestant and Catholic alike. Until recently, many of them had been topped by large crosses soaring into the sky, often illuminated with neon lights at night.

Under a new draft regulation made public this week by the Continue reading