2015-04-23
Tang Jingling, a top human rights lawyer in Guangzhou, and his wife Wang Yanfang in an undated photo.
(Photo courtesy of Wang Yanfang.)
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong look set to move ahead with the subversion trial of the “Guangzhou Three” rights lawyers next month, Continue reading
Subversion, Public Order Cases of Tiananmen Anniversary Activists Move Closer to Trial已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Tang Jingling
2015-04-22
Pan-democrat protesters prepare to go on a hunger strike to call for “true” universal suffrage in Hong Kong, March 28, 2014
AFP
Pan-democratic lawmakers in Hong Kong walked out of the city’s legislature on Wednesday Continue reading
Pan-Democrats Protest in Hong Kong Legislature Over Beijing’s Election Plan已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
By PATRICK BOEHLER April 19, 2015
Xiong Yan, center, one of the leaders of the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, at a march in Hong Kong in 2009 marking the 20th anniversary of the protests and their suppression by the military.
Kin Cheung/Associated Press
On June 9, 1992, Xiong Yan embarked on the fishing boat that smuggled him out of China.
The former law student had once been one of China’s most wanted: Continue reading
Tiananmen Protester’s Plea to China: Let Me See My Dying Mother已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
17 April 2015
Gao Yu, seen here in a file image taken in Hong Kong on 5 February 2007
Authorities say Gao Yu leaked a sensitive document that was then widely reposted abroad
China has jailed a top journalist for seven years for leaking a confidential paper to a foreign website.
Gao Yu, 71, had “illegally provided state secrets to foreigners”, the court in Beijing said. Continue reading
China jails journalist over leaked ‘state secrets’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, state secrets
Gao Yu, seen here in a file image taken in Hong Kong on 5 February 2007
Authorities say Gao Yu leaked a sensitive document that was then widely reposted abroad
China has jailed a top journalist for seven years Continue reading
China jails journalist Gao Yu over ‘state secrets’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, Journalist, state secrets
By EDWARD WONG April 15, 2015
Feng Yuan, a women’s rights activist who was not jailed, waiting for the release of other activists outside a detention center in Beijing.
Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Beijing—Though liberated from the confines of jail cells in western Beijing, Continue reading
Despite Release, Feminists’ Case Shows China’s Hostility Toward Civic Action已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Women’s Rights Activist
Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:28pm EDT
BEIJING | BY SUI-LEE WEE
Portraits of Li Tingting (top L), Wei Tingting (top R), (bottom, L-R) Wang Man, Wu Rongrong and Zheng Churan are pictured during a protest calling for their release in Hong Kong April 11, 2015.
REUTERS/TYRONE SIU
(Reuters) – China has unexpectedly released five women activists on bail, two lawyers said on Monday, after a vocal campaign against their detention Continue reading
China frees five women activists on bail after outcry已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Woman Rights Activists
Portraits of Li Tingting (top L), Wei Tingting (top R), (bottom, L-R) Wang Man, Wu Rongrong and Zheng Churan are pictured during a protest calling for their release in Hong Kong, April 11, 2015.
Shannon Van Sant
April 11, 2015 10:10 AM
HONG KONG—Chinese police have broadened their investigation into five women’s rights activists Continue reading
Women’s Rights Activists Await Formal Arrest in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged China, Wang Man, Woman Rights Activists, Wu Rongrong, Zheng Churan
