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Every year on 10 December the international community celebrates the anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This anniversary is an opportunity for both the EU and China to examine their progress in protecting the human rights of all persons. Continue reading
The European Union Delegation in China issues the following statement in agreement with the EU Heads of Mission in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Support Liu Xiaobo
Tagged EU, Ilham Tohti, Li Heping, Liu Xiaobo, statement, Tashi Wangchuk, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang, Zhang Haitao
7 December 2016
RAN 24/16
Ahead of World Human Rights Day, PEN International reiterates its calls on the Chinese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all writers, journalists, bloggers and publishers held for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of opinion, expression and association. The number of detained and imprisoned writers in China is among the highest in the world. PEN also calls on the authorities to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights without further delay. Continue reading
China: PEN renews its calls to release all writers, journalists and publishers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, RAN About Chinese
Tagged Journalist, PEN, Publisher, RAN, Writer
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Lackawanna College Student Union in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Nov. 7, 2016. AFP
China on Monday said it has lodged a diplomatic protest in Washington after United States president-elect Donald Trump took a phone call from the president of Taiwan, an island claimed but never ruled by its ruling Chinese Communist Party. Continue reading
China Protests Trump’s Taiwan Presidential Phone Call, Media Issues Warnings已关闭评论
Tagged phone call, Taiwan, Trump, Tsai Ing-wen
Wang Qingying (R) is shown following his release from prison. Photo courtesy of Xi Sen
A rights activist, one of the Guangzhou Three, recently released from prison in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, says he is having trouble returning to normal life, detailing ongoing restrictions on his movements and a lack of income. Wang Qingying, who was sentenced on Jan. 29, 2016 by the Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong’s provincial capital Guangzhou alongside Tang Jingling and Yuan Xinting, spoke to RFA following his release at the end of his two-and-a-half year sentence, most of which was served in pretrial detention: Continue reading
Interview: ‘They Humiliate You, And Treat You Like Animals, Worse Than a Dog’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion
Tagged Guangdong, Inciting Subversion, prison, Tang Jingling, Torture, Wang Qingying, Yuan Xinting
Detained Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang, in undated photo. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener.
Concerns are mounting over the continued detention of three prominent Chinese rights defenders all detained or “disappeared” last month, rights group said. Continue reading
Three Human Rights Defenders Held in Unknown Locations, ‘at Risk of Torture’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Internet Freedom
Tagged disappearance, HUANG QI, Jiang Tianyong, Liu Feiyue
A Beijing court has told journalist Gao Yu that she can continue serving her five-year jail term under a form of house arrest for another year from 26 November but has warned her that she could be sent her back to prison “at any time.”Journalist still under house arrest, cannot receive treatment abroad已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Yu, Health, House Arrest, Journalist
New York, November 28, 2016 – Chinese authorities should immediately release Liu Feiyue, the editor and founder of the human rights news website Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, known in China as Minsheng Guancha, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Liu’s arrest occurred amid increasing efforts by China to silence journalists and bloggers who cover protests and human rights abuses. Continue reading
Editor of human rights news website detained in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion
Tagged Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, CPJ, detention, Hubei province, incommunicado, Liu Feiyue, Minsheng Guancha, subverting state power
To Chair Woman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
Mrs. Kaci Kullmann
Former Chairman
Mr. Thorbjorn Jagland
Dear Mrs. Kullmann,
Dear Mr. Jagland,
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mr. Liu Xiaobo is still kept in prison in China, he is serving his 11 years imprisonment and will not be released till 2020. Continue reading
Tienchi Liao: An empty chair for Liu xiaobo on the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged ceremony, empty chair, Germany, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize, Student, Tienchi Liao
