Detained legal assistant Zhou Wei is shown in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of New Citizens Movement
Following unconfirmed reports that she was sexually abused in detention, authorities in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin have transferred a legal assistant jailed during last year’s nationwide police operation targeting human rights lawyers to an unknown location, RFA has learned. Continue reading
Chinese Legal Assistant Moved Amid Fears of Abuse in Detention已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion
Tagged abuse, disappearance, Inciting Subversion, Kaola, QIN YONGMIN, Zhao Suli, Zhao Wei
Chinese rights activist Huang Wenxun is shown in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of canyu.org
A court in the central Chinese province of Hubei on Friday tried a civil rights activist for “incitement to subvert state power” after holding him in pretrial detention for three years, his lawyers and relatives said. Continue reading
China Tries Civil Rights Activist For Subversion, Detains Supporters已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom, Subversion
Tagged Huang Wenxun, Hubei, Inciting Subversion, trial, Xianning
Chinese democracy activist Qin Yongmin and wife Zhao Suli are shown in a photo from October 2013. Photo courtesy of rosechina.net
Fears are growing for Zhao Suli, the wife of detained opposition party member and rights activist Qin Yongmin, Qin’s lawyer said on Wednesday. Continue reading
Fears Grow For ‘Disappeared’ Wife of Detained Chinese Activist已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion
Tagged disapparance, QIN YONGMIN, Zhao Suli
Title: Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award
Awardee: one or two individual annually;
Candidacy: Anyone in the case list of Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International who is still imprisoned or released under legal restriction of the right to freedom of expression, such as “deprivation of political rights”;
Nominator: Three individuals, or a PEN centre;
Nomination period: Starting on 23 June, anniversary of Liu Xiaobo’s formal arrest and ending on 8 October;
Date to announce the awardee: Writers in Prison Day on 15 November;
Awarding Items: a certificate or trophy, prize check and awarding statement.
Prize: 2000 US dollars; Continue reading
Internet surfers at a cybercafe in Beijing. Lists of names from WikiLeaks cables circulate on websites and popular microblogging platforms. AFP
A blogger and social media commentator who compiled meticulous daily lists of protests in China, making the results public via Google, Twitter and Weibo, has been incommunicado for nearly a week, along with his girlfriend, rights activists said on Tuesday. Continue reading
Chinese Blogger Who Compiled Protest Data Missing, Believed Detained已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged Blogger, censorship, detention, incommunicado, Lu Yuyu, Twitter
Returned bookseller Lam Wing-kei speaks to RFA in Hong Kong, June 20, 2016. RFA
Lam Wing-kei, a slight, soft-spoken man who carries a satchel and looks extremely tired, doesn’t look like much of a threat to the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Continue reading
‘I Am Definitely Being Followed in Hong Kong’: Returned Bookseller Lam Wing-kei已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kei, Publisher
Demonstrators call for press freedom in support of journalists from the Southern Weekend newspaper outside the company’s office building in Guangzhou, Jan. 8, 2013. AFP
The ruling Chinese Communist Party on Monday launched another volley of warnings to the country’s media that programs engaging in “mockery” of its policies or “speculation” about the news stories of the day could risk closure and other forms of sanction. Continue reading
China Warns TV Stations: Toe The Party Line or Face Disciplinary Action已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged censorship, Media, mockery, speculation, TV
Supporters of democracy activists wait outside Zhejiang courthouse to hear verdicts against them, June 17, 2016. Photo sent by an RFA listener
A court in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang on Friday handed down jail terms of just over a decade each to two veteran members of a banned opposition party after finding them guilty of subversion, their relatives and lawyers said. Continue reading
Court Jails Veteran Democracy Activists For 10, 11 Years For Subversion已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion
Tagged CHEN SHUQING, court, LÜ GENGSONG, verdict
