2015-10-14
Wang Yu (L) and Bao Zhuoxuan (R) in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Bao Zhuoxuan
The teenage son of two detained Chinese rights lawyers was detained alongside two friends and fellow activists in a cross-border police operation in a rebel-controlled part of Continue reading
Chinese Police Worked With Myanmar Rebels to Arrest Son of Detained Rights Lawyers: Sources已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Bao Zhuoxuan, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
PUBLISHED ON MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2015.
As the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet, Reporters Without Borders notes that the 2010 recipient, the cyber-dissident Liu Xiaobo, has been languishing in a Chinese prison for nearly seven years. The organization urges the international community to put pressure on Beijing to release the citizen journalist.
The Chinese government has been arbitrarily holding Liu Xiaobo, Continue reading
2010 PEACE LAUREATE LANGUISHES IN CHINESE JAIL IN FACE OF INTERNATIONAL INDIFFERENCE已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
2015-10-13
A file photo of Chinese journalist Gao Yu speaking at a press conference in Hong Kong.
AFP
A lawyer for jailed Chinese journalist Gao Yu on Tuesday warned of her deteriorating health in prison after she received emergency treatment for a heart attack earlier this month.
Lawyer Shang Baojun visited Gao in a Beijing detention Continue reading
Concerns Grow For Jailed Chinese Journalist Gao Yu After Illness已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, Jailed, Journalist
By OCTOBER 12, 2015 7:01 AM October 12, 2015 7:01 am
Joshua Wong, the student activist who spearheaded pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong last year.Credit Philippe Lopez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Joshua Wong was 17 — not even old enough to vote — Continue reading
Joshua Wong Seeks Lower Age Limit for Hong Kong Candidates已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Joshua Wong, Occupy Central movement
Published: October 3, 2015
Dissent keeps rolling in, not only from “dissidents.” Over the week-long National Day holidays in China, Ren Zhiqiang (任志強), a high-profile real estate mogul who has earned the nickname “the Cannon” online for his provocative opinions, took aim at the notion of the “New China.” Continue reading
By MICHAEL FORSYTHE OCT. 12, 2015
HONG KONG — The 16-year-old son of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer is now living under house arrest in northern China after being snatched at a Myanmar border town last week as he was trying to escape to the United States, a family friend said.
Bao Zhuoxuan, the son of the prominent human rights lawyer Wang Yu, Continue reading
Bao Zhuoxuan, Son of Rights Lawyer Held in China, Is Said to Be Under House Arrest已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Bao Zhuoxuan, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
Published: October 1, 2015
“Why would the results of a poll conducted by a neutral, respected polling organization tally so closely with the propaganda of a totalitarian government?”
Can it be that 92.8% of Chinese poll respondents are truly satisfied with the Chinese central government, and that among these, 37.6% are “extremely satisfied”? For over a decade, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Continue reading
Chang Ping: We’d Be Satisfied With Any Government!已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Chang Ping, Gao Yu, Ilham Tohti, Liu Xiaobo, Xu Zhiyong
Petitioning Members of the UK Parliament
Stand Up for International Principles and Call on China to End Its Human Rights Violations
Tibetan Uyghur Chinese Solidarity UK （TUCS） London, United Kingdom
Dear Members of Parliament,
In October 2015, the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will make an official State Visit to Britain. We, the undersigned, are calling on the UK government to Continue reading
Stand Up for International Principles and Call on China to End Its Human Rights Violations已关闭评论
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Tagged China, Human Rights, Human Rights Lawyer
