2015-09-09
Activists in Hong Kong demonstrate for the release of rights lawyers detained on the Chinese mainland, Aug. 25, 2015.
RFA
Two months after Chinese police carried out a midnight raid on the home of prominent human rights lawyer Wang Yu and her husband, sparking a nationwide police operation targeting hundreds of attorneys, her lawyers marched to a police station near where she is believed to be held to demand a meeting with Wang.
Li Weida and Lu Zhoubin, Continue reading
Two Months On, Lawyers For China’s Detained Attorneys Still Don’t Know Where They Are已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion, Writers in Prison
Tagged Detained, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
“We didn’t break the law in any way. We made no mistakes. We were simply and sincerely trying to push forward China’s democracy. This is a very persuasive argument.”
Guo Feixiong is the pen name of Yang Maodong, a well known figure in China’s rights defence movement who has previously spent five years in prison for his human rights activities. Continue reading
Guo Feixiong is a finalist for the 2015 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Award, Front Line Defenders, Guo Feixiong, Human Rights Defenders
8 September 2015
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Frontman Jon Bon Jovi had said he was ‘excited’ to be playing China
Bon Jovi’s first ever concerts in China have been cancelled by government officials, the BBC has learned.
No reason was given, but media reports Continue reading
By John Sudworth
BBC News, Beijing
Wang Qiaoling has not heard from her husband Li Heping since he was taken away two months ago
Faced with injustice. there are many people in China who make a perfectly understandable choice: it is better to protect yourself and your family than to risk the wrath of the authorities by speaking out.
And then there Continue reading
Wang Qiaoling’s battle to find missing lawyer husband, Li Heping已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Li Heping
2015-09-08
Qin Yongmin, in an undated photo.
Courtesy of Qin Yongmin
A veteran Chinese dissident who has been held in detention at an unknown location since January now faces subversion charges, while his wife remains “disappeared,” fellow activists told RFA on Tuesday.
Wuhan-based dissident Qin Yongmin, who Continue reading
Veteran Chinese Rights Activist Qin Yongmin Being Probed For ‘Subversion’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Defender, QIN YONGMIN, Subversion
By Alex Chow and YANG Jianli, published: August 31, 2015
Today marks the first anniversary of the August 31 decision of China’s National People’s Congress prohibiting popular selection of candidates for Hong Kong’s chief executive by the people in Hong Kong. This so-called “Beijing 8.19 Hong Kong political reform” package, violated China’s prior written agreements promising full Continue reading
Alex Chow and YANG Jianli: Hong Kong: One Year after 8.19已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
Relatives of Recently Disappeared Lawyers and Activists Write a Letter to China’s Minister of Public Security
On the eve of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced
Disappearances (August 30)
Published: August 29, 2015
“Such fear and panic do not beset these lawyers and their families only; they beset the entire Chinese society.”
Honorable Mr. Guo Shengkun (郭声琨),
We don’t know if you will be able to read this letter, but we are writing it regardless in the hope that you may. We do not want to let slip the slightest hope. Continue reading
Relatives of Recently Disappeared Lawyers and Activists Write a Letter to China’s Minister of Public Security已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Detained, Human Rights Lawyer, Li Heping, Wang Yu
By Yang Jianli, published: September 1, 2015
“At the time of the Cairo Conference, although the US military had already gained the upper hand in the Pacific and was actively planning an Allied invasion of Europe, and despite the first glimmerings of hope for an Allied victory over Germany, Italy and Japan, another threat was already taking shape, this time within Allied ranks: it would grow to become the greatest and most persistent threat to global peace in the post-war era.”
CAIRO CONFERENCE, 1943. VIA @HEGUISEN
On the eve of the 70th anniversary celebration of the victory over Japan in World War II, Continue reading
