By CHRIS BUCKLEY MAY 15, 2015
Pu Zhiqiang in 2012. Credit Andy Wong/Associated Press
HONG KONG — One of China’s best-known human rights lawyers, Pu Zhiqiang, will stand trial in Beijing on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and picking quarrels, prosecutors said on Friday. Continue reading
Chinese Rights Lawyer Detained in 2014 Will Stand Trial已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
By Wan Yanhai, published: May 13, 2015
GUO YUSHAN (郭玉闪)
In March 2007, Guo Yushan (郭玉闪）and others co-founded Transition Social and Economic Consulting Limited, otherwise known as Beijing Transition Institute. In July 2013, Continue reading
For Whom the Bell Tolls: One Chinese NGO’s Alleged Crime of “Illegal Business Operation”已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Writers in Prison
Tagged Guo Yushan, NGO
2015-05-15
Pu Zhiqiang (C), the lawyer for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, talks to the media at the artist’s studio in Beijing, Nov. 14, 2011.
AFP
Authorities in the Chinese capital on Friday indicted a prominent rights lawyer for Continue reading
China Indicts Top Rights Lawyer on Ethnic Hatred Charge已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
2015-05-14
Security forces participate in a military drill in Hotan, Xinjiang, June 6, 2014.
AFP
Tibetans and members of the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group have been placed Continue reading
April 15, 2015
One evening in June 2013, I received a call from a man who identified himself as an official for the Chinese Communist Party’s Propaganda Department in Beijing. Continue reading
HO PIN: Gao Yu’s Real Crime已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu
2015-05-13
Geng He, wife of China’s leading human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, speaks at a press conference in Washington, Sept. 9, 2014.
RFA
Measures introduced by China over the past six years to curb torture and mistreatment of criminal detainees have not done enough to reduce abuses, Continue reading
China Reforms to Curb Torture Don’t Go Far Enough-Human Rights Watch已关闭评论
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Tagged China, Human Rights Watch, Torture
2015-05-11
Liu Jiacai was initially detained by police in Hubei’s Yichang city on Aug. 3, 2013.
RFA
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei on Monday handed a five-year jail term Continue reading
China Jails Citizen Activist For Five Years on Subversion Charge已关闭评论
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Tagged Liu Jiacai, New Citizens' Movement, Subversion
2015-05-11
Hong Kong citizens attend a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown on June 4, 2014.
RFA
Hong Kong activists running a museum dedicated to the 1989 student-led protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Continue reading
Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Massacre Museum Under Pressure: Activists已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
