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Rights lawyers like Pu Zhiqiang (front right, in May 3, 2014 photo) are an endangered species in China.
Photo courtesy of China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD).
Dozens of Chinese lawyers have written to the country’s parliament calling for an end to legal requirements that they join their professional association, amid an ongoing crackdown on the embattled legal profession.
The letter calls for the repeal of Clause 15 of China’s Continue reading
Chinese Lawyers Call For The Abolition of Their Professional Body已关闭评论
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Tagged China, Human Rights Lawyer
2015-10-02
Zhong Jinhua (R) and a colleague in Shenzhen in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of 
Zhong Jinhua, a former judge at the Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang who became a lawyer to escape political interference, arrived last month in the United States along with his family.
His arrival on Sept. 4 coincided with a nationwide police operation targeting human Continue reading
‘Chinese Lawyers Live in Constant Fear’: Former Chinese Judge已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Zhong Jinhua
Dissident artist posts images of suspected bugs on Instagram after returning to China following first overseas trip in four years
Ai Weiwei during his visit to London. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex
Sunday 4 October 2015 06.45 EDT Last modified on Sunday 4 October 2015 19.01 EDT
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei has returned to China after his first overseas trip in four years and discovered what appear to be listening devices hidden in his studio.
In a series of Instagram and Twitter posts on Sunday, the pop artist Continue reading
Ai Weiwei finds ‘listening devices’ hidden in Beijing studio已关闭评论
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Tagged Ai Weiwei
By MICHAEL FORSYTHE OCTOBER 2, 2015 11:40 AM October 2, 2015 11:40 am
Johannes Chan, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, was rejected this week for a promotion, raising fears over Beijing’s influence.Credit Fai Lo/The Initium Media
The governing council of the University of Hong Kong rejected this week the nomination of Johannes Chan, a professor and former dean at the university’s law school, as one of five pro-vice chancellors, a post with influence over how Hong Kong’s most prestigious academic institution attracts and hires talent.
For almost a year, Mr. Chan’s candidacy for the post had been under attack by local newspapers sympathetic to China’s central government. It drew considerable attention Continue reading
Q. and A.: Johannes Chan on Academic Freedom in Hong Kong已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Press Freedom
Tagged Academic Freedom, Hong Kong, Johannes Chan, University of Hong Kong
Remarks at the Internet Freedom Technology Showcase: The Future of Human Rights Online, City University of New York Graduate Center
Ambassador Samantha Power
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
U.S. Mission to the United Nations
New York City
September 26, 2015
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Hi everybody. And could we have a better or more determined Assistant Secretary for Human Rights representing the United States of America? His Yankees unfortunately do appear destined for Continue reading
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power：Remarks at the Internet Freedom Technology Showcase已关闭评论
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Tagged Internet Freedom, USA
A damaged room in a residential building is seen after several locations were targeted with parcel bombs in the southwestern city of Liuzhou, Guangxi province, Sept. 30, 2015.
October 02, 2015 5:40 AM
Authorities in China have imposed censorship controls on domestic media reporting on this week’s deadly bomb blasts in Guangxi Province, which claimed seven lives and caused more than Continue reading
China Tightens Censorship on Guangxi Blasts已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged Blasts, censorship, Guangxi, Internet Freedom
2015-10-01
China’s public security ministry is pressing ahead with moves to force more of the country’s 668 million netizens to use their real names and a digital ID card online.
The move is part of a raft of tighter Internet controls enshrined in the draft Cybersecurity Law being debated in China’s parliament, the China Youth Daily newspaper Continue reading
China Mulls Plans For a Digital ID Card to Track Internet Users已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
Dear Members of Parliament,
In October 2015, the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will make an official State Visit to Britain. We, the undersigned, are calling on the UK government to uphold human rights principles and urge China to adhere to international protocols and conventions on human rights and end its gross human rights violations in Tibet, East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and across China.
We ask you, as a member of parliament, to help us hold China to Continue reading
