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Missing Hong Kong bookseller appears on state television, claiming he turned himself in over 11-year-old drink-driving death

Posted on 01/17/2016 by | Missing Hong Kong bookseller appears on state television, claiming he turned himself in over 11-year-old drink-driving death已关闭评论

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In a video interview with a bookseller missing since November, he says he was afraid of going to jail and thought he’d better run – despite being given a suspended sentence for the offence in 2004 Continue reading →

Missing Hong Kong bookseller appears on state television, claiming he turned himself in over 11-year-old drink-driving death已关闭评论

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Book on Chinese president pulled as fears grow for missing Hong Kong publishers

Posted on 01/16/2016 by | Book on Chinese president pulled as fears grow for missing Hong Kong publishers已关闭评论

US-based writer Yu Jie says publication of Xi Jinping’s Nightmare was halted as the industry ‘wants to stay out of trouble’ after five booksellers have vanished

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Chinese dissident author Yu Jie. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

The author of a book which criticises Chinese president Xi Jinping has said its publication has been suspended in Hong Kong, because its publisher was fearful of the “huge consequences” of its release, following the mysterious disappearance of five of the city’s publishers in recent months. Continue reading →

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China: Subversion Charges Target Lawyers

Posted on 01/15/2016 by | China: Subversion Charges Target Lawyers已关闭评论

Arrests Reflect Xi Jinping’s Broader Repression of Rights Activism

(New York) – The Chinese authorities’ formal arrest of at least 11 human rights lawyers, legal assistants, and activists on political subversion charges is an unprecedented and grave escalation of attacks on rights defenders in China, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities should immediately drop the charges and release the 11, as well as other lawyers and human rights advocates in custody for political reasons. Continue reading →

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Beijing church elder formally arrested after six months in detention

Posted on 01/14/2016 by | Beijing church elder formally arrested after six months in detention已关闭评论

China Aid
By Rachel Ritchie

 (Tianjin, China—Jan. 14, 2016) China Aid learned today that authorities in China’s northern Tianjin Municipality formally arrested a Beijing church elder and democracy activist for “subversion of state power” on Jan. 8, according to an arrest notice received by the man’s family members. Continue reading →

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China arrests most prominent woman rights lawyer for subversion

Posted on 01/13/2016 by | China arrests most prominent woman rights lawyer for subversion已关闭评论

BEIJING | By Sui-Lee Wee

Human rights lawyer Wang Yu talks during an interview with Reuters in Beijing in this March 1, 2014 photo. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Files

Human rights lawyer Wang Yu talks during an interview with Reuters in Beijing in this March 1, 2014 photo. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Files

Chinese authorities have formally arrested China’s most prominent woman human rights lawyer, accusing her of subverting the state, her lawyer said on Wednesday, as part of a crackdown on activists who have helped people fight for their legal rights. Continue reading →

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China charges human rights lawyers with ‘subversion’

Posted on 01/12/2016 by | China charges human rights lawyers with ‘subversion’已关闭评论
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Zhou Shifeng is one of several Chinese lawyers who disappeared last year

China has formally arrested and charged at least seven human rights lawyers and associates with “subversion”, friends and relatives say. Continue reading →

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Tom Phillips : Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer missing for six months tells of despair

Posted on 01/11/2016 by | Tom Phillips : Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer missing for six months tells of despair已关闭评论
Li Heping was taken from his home in July and has not been seen since along with dozens of other attorneys amid a crackdown on dissidents
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Li Heping, a well-known human rights lawyers, has been missing in China since 10 July 2015. ‘I never thought this country could be so corrupt,’ his wife said. Photograph: Supplied

Six months after her husband was spirited into secret detention by security forces, the wife of one of China’s top civil rights lawyers has spoken of her grief and despair. Continue reading →

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Tienchi Martin-Liao: The Communist Party of China’s “Mother Beats Child” Syndrome

Posted on 01/10/2016 by | Tienchi Martin-Liao: The Communist Party of China’s “Mother Beats Child” Syndrome已关闭评论
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Chinese intellectual Fu Lei. Image via: Wikimedia Commons.

At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, intellectuals committed suicide in defiance of Mao Zedong’s policies, which would take the lives of millions more. Continue reading →

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