By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW AUGUST 4, 2015 6:57 AM August 4, 2015 6:57 am
Part roll call, part battle hymn, part warning that justice will be done, a new video circulating quietly in China documents the names and faces of some of the more than 200 civil rights lawyers and their associates who have been detained or questioned by the government since July 9, Continue reading
Music Video Puts a Human Face on China’s Sweep of Lawyers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Detained, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW AUGUST 7, 2015 7:45 AM August 7, 2015 7:45 am
The journalist Gao Yu, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in April for leaking state secrets abroad, is receiving good medical care compared with that provided to most Chinese prisoners, her lawyers said on Friday.
Gao Yu, in a photo from June 9, 2012, is serving a seven-year prison term for allegedly leaking state secrets.Credit Kin Cheung/Associated Press
But the results of a physical examination in mid-July were worrying, said Shang Baojun, one of her two lawyers, in a telephone interview. They showed that Ms. Gao, 71, has cardiovascular problems including high blood pressure.
The day after receiving the results on July 28, Continue reading
Gao Yu, Jailed Chinese Journalist, Is Said to Be Receiving Good Medical Care已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, Journalist
2015-08-06
A plainclothes officer blocks the door from the inside of Zhang Haitao’s home in Urumqi, February 2015.
Photo courtesy of Zhang Haitao
Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang detained prominent rights activist Zhang Haitao on June 26, charging him with “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.”
His wife, Li Aijie, who is pregnant with the couple’s child, Continue reading
‘I Am Pregnant, But There’s Nobody to Look After Me’已关闭评论
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Tagged Detained, Human Rights Defender, Xinjiang, Zhang Haitao
Pen name Norwegian Wood
Sex Male
Birth date 1966-09-06
Birth place Loudi City, Hunan Province
Resident place Shanghai City Continue reading
2015-08-07
Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu poses during an interview in Hong Kong, March 20, 2014.
AFP
Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin are holding a top rights lawyer under “residential surveillance” on suspicion of subversion, denying her visits from her defense attorney amid an ongoing crackdown on the legal profession, rights groups and lawyers said on Friday.
Wang Yu’s lawyer Li Yuhan received an official notification Continue reading
Chinese Rights Lawyer Wang Yu Held For ‘Subversion’ As Crackdown Continues已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
By XIAO GUOZHEN August 4, 2015
Golden Cosmos
Until two years ago, I lived in Beijing and belonged to a loosely organized group of legal professionals known among ordinary Chinese as weiquan lushi, or rights defense lawyers. The government called us “a criminal gang” that disturbed social order because we openly challenged the way the Communist Party controlled China’s legal system. Most of the people we helped were seen by officials as troublemakers: petitioners whose houses had been forcibly demolished, political dissidents, members of Christian house churches, Falun Gong practitioners, and migrant workers bullied by their urban employers.
In 2013, I came to the United States as Continue reading
XIAO GUOZHEN: China vs. Its Human Rights Lawyers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Xiao Guozhen
2015-08-05
A man surfs the Internet at a coffee shop in Beijing in a file photo.
AFP
The ruling Chinese Communist Party looks set to further tighten its grip on the nation’s 650 million netizens with the stationing of specialist police officers in major Internet companies.
“We will further deepen and expand our Continue reading
China to Send Police Officers Into Internet Companies to Curb ‘Lawbreaking’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
2015-08-06
A file photo of Gao Yu speaking in Hong Kong.
AFP
Human rights and press freedom groups on Thursday called on Beijing to release veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who is currently serving a jail term for “leaking state secrets,” amid fears that her health may be rapidly deteriorating.
Gao, 71, currently suffers from chronic heart pain, Continue reading
Human Rights, Press Freedom Groups Call For Release of Jailed Chinese Journalist已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, Journalist
