Monthly Archives: 11 月 2015

Chinese Rights Advocate Known as Guo Feixiong Convicted of Unexpected New Charge

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By CHRIS BUCKLEY NOV. 27, 2015
28china-master180Yang Maodong, a veteran protester better known by his pen name, Guo Feixiong. Credit Zhang Qing

BEIJING — Yang Maodong, a hardened veteran of political protest in southern China, knew he had virtually no hope of winning his freedom on Friday when he was brought into a courtroom to face a judge’s verdict on charges that he had disturbed public order.

Chinese judges, after all, convict and imprison indicted dissidents with metronomic consistency, reflecting the ruling Communist Party’s control of the courts.

Still, Mr. Yang — a human rights campaigner better Continue reading →

Chinese Rights Advocate Known as Guo Feixiong Convicted of Unexpected New Charge已关闭评论

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Guo Baosheng: Is Death Through Maltreatment Becoming Routine for Chinese Political Prisoners?

Posted on 11/29/2015 by | Guo Baosheng: Is Death Through Maltreatment Becoming Routine for Chinese Political Prisoners?已关闭评论

Published: November 17, 2015

China claims that it doesn’t have any political prisoners, but in a broad sense all of those who have been jailed or imprisoned for challenging the Chinese Communist Party on behalf of human rights or political justice ought to be considered China’s political prisoners. Before the policy of “reform and opening up” in 1979, counterrevolutionaries and other political prisoners were put under strict guard and treated worse than other criminals, and it was common in those days Continue reading →

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Tibetans Fight to Salvage Fading Culture in China

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By EDWARD WONG NOV. 28, 2015

YUSHU, China — When officials forced an informal school run by monks near here to stop offering language classes for laypeople, Tashi Wangchuk looked for a place where his two teenage nieces could continue studying Tibetan.

To his surprise, he could not find one, even though nearly everyone living in this market town on the Tibetan plateau here is Tibetan.

Officials had also ordered other monasteries and a private school in the area not to teach the language to laypeople. And public schools had dropped true bilingual education Continue reading →

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China Releases 71-Year-Old Journalist from Prison

Posted on 11/27/2015 by | China Releases 71-Year-Old Journalist from Prison已关闭评论

9E5FE6DB-A6F2-4C6E-8117-803461CBF1BB_w640_r1_sFILE – Pictures of jailed veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu are displayed by protesters outside Chinese central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong.

November 26, 2015 1:50 AM

Chinese authorities have released on medical leave a 71-year-old journalist imprisoned on charges of leaking state secrets.

State media reported the development Continue reading →

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China: Conviction of veteran journalist Gao Yu upheld on appeal

Posted on 11/27/2015 by | China: Conviction of veteran journalist Gao Yu upheld on appeal已关闭评论

26 November 2015                                                                                         

Update #3 to RAN 09/14

Gao-YuPEN International is deeply disappointed by the Beijing high court’s decision of 26 November 2015 not to overturn veteran journalist Gao Yu’s conviction for ‘leaking state secrets abroad’. Following a closed hearing held on 24 November, the court ruled to reduce her sentence to five years. PEN continues to condemn her conviction and sentence, and calls for her immediate and unconditional release. Nonetheless, PEN welcomes reports that Gao Yu is due to serve the remainder of her sentence under house arrest due to concerns for her deteriorating health and strongly urges the Chinese authorities to ensure that Gao Yu is afforded adequate medical care. Continue reading →

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Chinese rights activist jailed for six years

Posted on 11/27/2015 by | Chinese rights activist jailed for six years已关闭评论

Thu Nov 26, 2015 11:33pm EST

Police officers stand guard outside the court house, blocking roads to the Guangzhou People's Court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou September 12, 2014. REUTERS/James Pomfret/Files

Police officers stand guard outside the court house, blocking roads to the Guangzhou People’s Court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou September 12, 2014. REUTERS/James Pomfret/Files

Police officers stand guard outside the court house, blocking roads to the Guangzhou People’s Court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou September 12, 2014.
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A prominent Chinese rights activist, Guo Feixiong, was sentenced to six years imprisonment Continue reading →

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Chinese Court to Pass Verdict on Guo Feixiong, Two Others

Posted on 11/26/2015 by | Chinese Court to Pass Verdict on Guo Feixiong, Two Others已关闭评论

2015-11-23

imageGuo Feixiong in a file photo.
Photo courtesy of Guo Feixiong

Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are expected to announce the verdict in the long-delayed case of a prominent human rights activist later this week after holding him in conditions described by his family as ‘slow torture,’ his lawyer said on Monday.

Yang Maodong, better known by his pseudonym Guo Feixiong, will attend a verdict hearing in the provincial capital Guangzhou along with two co-defendants on Friday.

Guo is awaiting the verdict on charges of “gathering a Continue reading →

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Grassroots Activist Wang Mo Tells Court: I Committed No Crime Trying to Subvert the Communist Regime

Posted on 11/25/2015 by | 1 comment

By Wang Mo, published: November 22, 2015

On October 3, 2014, Chinese activists Xie Wenfei (谢文飞, a.k.a. Xie Fengxia 谢丰厦), and Wang Mo (王默, real name Zhang Shengyu 张圣雨) held banners in the streets of Guangzhou, expressing support for the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. They were arrested the same evening and indicted on May 12, 2015, for “inciting subversion of state power.” On Nov. 19, Wang Mo was tried in a Guangzhou court (Zhang had been tried separately a week earlier.) Verdicts in both trials are pending. Following is an abbreviated translation of Wang Mo’s defense. The translation remains unauthorized because permission could not be secured from the writer. – The Editors

Decades ago Chinese Communist Party, crying slogans about opposing corruption, opposing dictatorship, and pursuing liberty and democracy, subverted the Nationalist regime of the Republic of China and drove the Nationalist government to Taiwan. The Republic of China was then Continue reading →

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