Chinese democracy activist Qin Yongmin and wife Zhao Suli are shown in a photo from October 2013. Photo courtesy of rosechina.net
Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan once more prolonged the pretrial detention of a veteran democracy activist for subversion on Thursday amid growing concerns over the safety of his ‘disappeared’ wife. Continue reading
China Postpones Activist’s Subversion Trial, Wife Still Missing已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion
Tagged disapparance, QIN YONGMIN, trail, Zhao Suli
Chinese dissident writer Liao Yiwu (aka Lao Wei) during the promotion of his book “In the Empire of Darkness,” a testimony of four years spent in Chinese prisons, in Paris, Jan.16, 2013. AFP
Exiled Chinese writer Liao Yiwu, who was once jailed for writing a poem commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, has published a novel in German based on a harrowing prison memoir penned on cheap paper during four years behind bars. Continue reading
Exiled Chinese Writer’s New Novel Penned in Secret While in Prison已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Publications
Portrait of jailed Wukan village chief Lin Zuluan is displayed by protesters demanding the release of Lin outside China Liaison Office in Hong Kong, China, Sept. 14, 2016.
HONG KONG — Police in China’s southern Guangdong province are detaining citizens for posting information and news reports about a government crackdown on protesters in the small fishing village of Wukan. Continue reading
China Detains Woman for Posting News on Wukan Crackdown已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged censorship, crackdown, detention, Guangdong, Huang Meijuan, Wukan
Zhu Xiaoyan, sister of imprisoned democracy activist Zhu Yufu, calls on supporters overseas to pay attention to his case. RFA
Zhu Xiaoyan is the U.S.-based sister of veteran jailed democracy activist Zhu Yufu, who was handed a seven-year jail term for subversion by a court in the eastern city of Hangzhou after he penned a poem calling on people to vote with their feet. She spoke at a recent event in San Francisco about her brother, who wrote the poem titled “It is Time” during online calls for ‘Jasmine’ rallies inspired by protests in the Middle East in early 2011. Continue reading
‘My Brother’s Spirit Seemed Broken’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion
Tagged Inciting Subversion, prison, Zhu Yufu
Gangkye Drubpa Kyab is greeted by supporters following his release from prison, Sept. 16, 2016. Photo sent by an RFA listener
A popular Tibetan writer jailed for over four years in southwestern China’s Sichuan province for criticizing Chinese rule has been released a year before the end of his term, a local source said. Continue reading
Tibetan Writer Released From Prison One Year Before Sentence Ends已关闭评论
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Tagged GANGKYE DRUBPA KYAB, Released, Sichuan, Tibetan
Members of the Democratic Party demonstrate in from of the Hong Kong Central Government office on behalf of local reporters detained and beaten covering protests in Wukan, China, Sept. 15, 2016. RFA
Five Hong Kong journalists have been detained, dragged into interrogation rooms for hours and expelled by authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong after they tried to cover a crackdown by armed police on the rebel village of Wukan following weeks of peaceful protests. Continue reading
Reporters Detained, Beaten by Chinese Police in Rebel Village of Wukan已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged detention, Guangdong, HKJA, Hong Kong, Journalist, Wukan
Wives of Chinese human rights lawyers detained in a 2015 crackdown wearing the names of their husbands after filing complaints at the Supreme People’s Procuratorate in Beijing, July 4, 2016. AFP
Rights lawyers have dismissed recent claims by the ruling Chinese Communist Party that it has improved treatment of prisoners and detainees in its judicial system, saying the country’s human rights situation continues to worsen. Continue reading
China’s Rights Lawyers Say Judicial White Paper ‘Full of Lies’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Judicial White Paper, Lawyer, prison
A woman stands in front of a giant portrait of Mao Zedong at the gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing on Sept. 9, 2016, the 40th anniversary of the death of Communist China’s founding father. AFP
Forty years after his death at the age of 82, late supreme leader Mao Zedong still presents a political dilemma to the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Continue reading
No Official Memorial For Chairman Mao, 40 Years After Death已关闭评论
Tagged death anniversary, Mao Zedong, Maoist
