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Pu Zhiqiang’s Indictment and the Seven Incriminating Weibo Posts

Posted on 12/11/2015 by | Pu Zhiqiang’s Indictment and the Seven Incriminating Weibo Posts已关闭评论

Number Two Branch of Beijing People’s Procuratorate Bill of Indictment

BJ 2d Br Proc Crim Indict (2015) No. 48

Bill of Indictment-PZQ1Defendant Pu Zhiqiang, male, born January 17, 1965, identification number [redacted], Han ethnicity, from Hebei Province, master’s degree education, is a lawyer at the Beijing Huayi Law Firm and resides at [redacted] in Beijing. Placed under criminal detention by the Haidian Precinct of the Beijing Public Security Bureau on May 6, 2014, under suspicion of provoking a serious disturbance. With the approval of this procuratorate, arrested by the Beijing Public Security Bureau on June 13, 2014, under suspicion of illegally obtaining citizens’ personal information and provoking a serious disturbance. Continue reading →

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ICPC Statement for International Human Rights Day

Posted on 12/10/2015 by | ICPC Statement for International Human Rights Day已关闭评论

Pu Zhiqiang and Abduljalil Al-Singace Honored
Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award
And 27 Writers Adopted as Honorary Members
(10 December 2015)

Liu Xiaobo-AwardingToday is the International Human Rights Day as well as the fifth anniversary of Dr. LIU Xiaobo, the former and honorary president of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC), being awarded in absence to the Nobel Peace Prize, while two day earlier it had been seventh years since his detention. For commemoration of these dates, ICPC has honoured Mr. PU Zhiqiang, its honorary member as well as a lawyer and blogger detained in China, and Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace, an academic and blogger imprisoned in Bahrain, this year’s Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award for their long-term tenacity and courage in writing and fighting for freedom of expression and other basic rights despite imprisonment. In addition, ICPC have adopted twenty-seven of writers imprisoned in China as its new honorary members, namely FU Zhibin, YU Shiwen, LIU Haitao, DONG Tubin, XIE Wenfei, WANG Mo, SU Changlan (f), LIANG Qinhui, CHEN Yunfei, ZHANG Shenyu, HUANG Jingyi, WU Gan, ZHAO Haitong, WANG Quanzhang, SUI Muqing， XIE Yang, YANG Weidong, XIE Yanyi, WANG Yu (f), LI Heping, LIU Shaoming, SUN Feng, WANG Xiaolu, LIU Sixin, ZHAO Wei (f), LIU Wei and XIN Lijian. Continue reading →

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China Slaps Exit Ban on Wife, Son of Defected Former Journalist

Posted on 12/10/2015 by | China Slaps Exit Ban on Wife, Son of Defected Former Journalist已关闭评论

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Journalist Li Xin, who went into exile to protect his family in China, in undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Li Xin

Authorities in the southern province of Guangdong have prevented the wife and son of a former columnist at a top Chinese newspaper from leaving the country to join him after his defection.

Li Xin, rights activist and writer for the cutting-edge Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper, fled to India three months ago after being recruited by China’s state security police to spy on his fellow Continue reading →

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Gao Zhisheng: Join Them, and Prove Your Worth by Helping China’s Historic Change

Posted on 12/09/2015 by | Gao Zhisheng: Join Them, and Prove Your Worth by Helping China’s Historic Change已关闭评论
 – A commentary in the wake of false charges against Guo Feixiong

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Translated by Matthew Robertson; posted on December 3, 2015

 

GAO ZHISHENG AND GUO FEIXIONG IN 2006.

Gao Zhisheng composed the following letter after hearing about the six year prison sentence handed to rights activist Guo Feixiong, and after reading Guo’s spirited defense and condemnation of the Party’s rule. As the letter made the rounds on social media, the Chinese authorities promptly cut off Gao’s cell phone service and placed him under house arrest in his late mother’s cave dwelling in Shaanxi Province. Both Gao Zhisheng and Guo Feixiong are Christians. — The Editors Continue reading →

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Charges Against Top Chinese Rights Lawyer Based on Seven Tweets

Posted on 12/08/2015 by | Charges Against Top Chinese Rights Lawyer Based on Seven Tweets已关闭评论

2015-12-08

27377106-6133-46e2-bdff-33fdba938497Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who has been held on questionable charges since May 2014, in an undated file photo.
AFP
Authorities in the Chinese capital on Tuesday indicated for the first time that racial hatred and public order charges against a top human rights lawyer are based on a handful of his tweets, Continue reading →

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China: Seven years after his arrest PEN writers urge China to release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and wife Liu Xia

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lxb‘Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.’ – Liu Xiaobo Continue reading →

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Guo Feixiong: My Final Reply in Court

Posted on 12/07/2015 by | Guo Feixiong: My Final Reply in Court已关闭评论

e983ade9a39ee99b841November 27, 2015

Translated by Louisa Chiang and Perry Link; posted on December 3, 2015
1On November 27, a year after the trial of Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng, the Tianhe court in Guangzhou sentenced Guo Feixiong to six years in prison by adding a last-minute charge in order to procure a lengthier sentence. In doing so, the Chinese court announced to the world that the law means nothing when it comes to persecuting political dissenters. – The Editors

This verdict violates both justice and the law. It is nothing but Continue reading →

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100 Women: China’s feminists undeterred by detentions

Posted on 12/06/2015 by | 100 Women: China’s feminists undeterred by detentions已关闭评论

By Celia Hatton

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(Clockwise from top left) Zheng Churan, Li Tingting, Wang Man, Wu Rongrong, and Wei Tingting

The detentions came right before International Women’s Day.

Five women who all worked as activists for various feminist causes and had organised public events to raise awareness of a host of issues, from eradicating domestic violence to the need for more women’s toilets in China.

Few predicted the women would ever become targets of Continue reading →

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