Category Archives: Headlines

‘My Brother Has Been Appallingly Treated’

Posted on 02/19/2017 by | ‘My Brother Has Been Appallingly Treated’已关闭评论

Zhu Xiaoyan, the U.S.-based sister of veteran jailed democracy activist Zhu Yufu, has called on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to end the beatings and mistreatment meted out to her brother in prison. Continue reading →

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Torture & the Criminalization of Human Rights Advocacy

Posted on 02/17/2017 by | Torture & the Criminalization of Human Rights Advocacy已关闭评论

A new report released this week by Chinese Human Rights Defenders highlights the widespread use of systematic torture by Chinese security agencies as a key tactic aimed at extracting forced confessions from detained . The report notes that this phenomenon is part of a broader move by the Chinese state to legalize repressive measures and criminalize human rights advocacy. Benjamin Haas at The Guardian reports: Continue reading →

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PEN World Voices Festival: Gender and Power

Posted on 02/17/2017 by | PEN World Voices Festival: Gender and Power已关闭评论

New York, NY (February 16, 2017) –The thirteenth annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature will focus its lens on today’s fractious relationship between gender and power. Taking place in New York City, May 1-7, 2017, the weeklong Festival will use literature and the arts to address how gender both enables and impairs full participation in politics and society. At a moment of unprecedented threats to freedom and truth, and of emboldened mobilization and resistance, the Festival will connect leading global writers, artists and thinkers with concerned citizens to examine bigotry, misogyny and xenophobia, and to bolster the movement to counter them. Continue reading →

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Fears for Chinese Poet Liu Xia’s Life After Troubling Phone Call to Friend

Posted on 02/10/2017 by | Fears for Chinese Poet Liu Xia’s Life After Troubling Phone Call to Friend已关闭评论

NEW YORK—Reports that Chinese poet Liu Xia, who is spending her seventh year under house without charge, has made rare and risky contact with a fellow writer to lament her failing her health raise fears for her life under conditions of stringent confinement and isolation, PEN America said in statement today. Continue reading →

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Court applies for fourth verdict deferral for Chinese activist who voiced support for Occupy protests

Posted on 02/09/2017 by | Court applies for fourth verdict deferral for Chinese activist who voiced support for Occupy protests已关闭评论

A Guangxi court has applied for the verdict for women’s rights activist Su Changlan to be deferred for the fourth time, her lawyer has said. Su was detained in October 2014 after making comments on social media in support of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Occupy movement. She previously worked as a volunteer for the New York-based Women’s Rights in China group, and has been a long time campaigner for women’s and children’s rights. Continue reading →

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Jared Genser: The Detention of Wu Zeheng

Posted on 02/05/2017 by | Jared Genser: The Detention of Wu Zeheng已关闭评论

Washington — In recent years, using new laws targeting so-called “evil cults,” Chinese President Xi Jinping and his government have arrested, tried, convicted, and imprisoned a wide array of religious leaders viewed as a threat to the one-party system. In a stinging decision that has just been made public, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention decided the Chinese government’s detention of one such Buddhist leader Wu Zeheng is arbitrary and in violation of international law, urging his case be resolved. Wu, who had spoken out repeatedly against the Chinese government’s repression of religious practice, received a life sentence for his activities in October 2015. Continue reading →

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BBC journalist questioned by US border agents, devices searched

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New York, February 1, 2017–Customs and Border Protection officers should respect the rights of journalists to protect confidential information when subjecting international reporters to screening on their arrival to the U.S., the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Continue reading →

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William Ide: UN Social Media Posts Removed in China After Backlash

Posted on 02/01/2017 by | William Ide: UN Social Media Posts Removed in China After Backlash已关闭评论

BEIJING — The United Nations has removed two Lunar New Year posts on refugees and poverty from its social media site on China’s popular Weibo microblogging platform after the messages sparked strong backlash online. Continue reading →

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