Wu Gan stages protest outside Jiangxi High Court, May 19, 2015. Photo courtesy of Boxun
Detained rights activist Wu Gan, known by his online nickname “The Butcher,” has suffered torture while being held under investigation in a police detention center in the northern port city of Tianjin, his lawyers have complained after visiting him last week. Continue reading
Chinese Rights Activist ‘Tortured’ in Police Detention: Lawyers已关闭评论
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Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin have indicted prominent rights lawyer Li Heping on unknown charges, paving the way for a trial, while other lawyers detained in a July 2015 crackdown remain in pretrial detention. Continue reading
China to Try Top Human Rights Lawyer, Delays Three Other Cases已关闭评论
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Wang Qingying (R) is shown following his release from prison. Photo courtesy of Xi Sen
A rights activist, one of the Guangzhou Three, recently released from prison in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, says he is having trouble returning to normal life, detailing ongoing restrictions on his movements and a lack of income. Wang Qingying, who was sentenced on Jan. 29, 2016 by the Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong’s provincial capital Guangzhou alongside Tang Jingling and Yuan Xinting, spoke to RFA following his release at the end of his two-and-a-half year sentence, most of which was served in pretrial detention: Continue reading
Interview: ‘They Humiliate You, And Treat You Like Animals, Worse Than a Dog’已关闭评论
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Tagged Guangdong, Inciting Subversion, prison, Tang Jingling, Torture, Wang Qingying, Yuan Xinting
New York, November 28, 2016 – Chinese authorities should immediately release Liu Feiyue, the editor and founder of the human rights news website Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, known in China as Minsheng Guancha, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Liu’s arrest occurred amid increasing efforts by China to silence journalists and bloggers who cover protests and human rights abuses. Continue reading
Editor of human rights news website detained in China已关闭评论
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Tagged Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, CPJ, detention, Hubei province, incommunicado, Liu Feiyue, Minsheng Guancha, subverting state power
Last week, a court in the eastern province of Shandong handed a five-year jail term to online activist Sun Feng after holding him in pretrial detention for two years, rights activists said. Continue reading
Online activist Sun Feng sentenced已关闭评论
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Tagged inciting sunversion, sentence, Shandong, Sun Feng, trail
Tang Jingling, a top human rights lawyer in Guangzhou, and his wife Wang Yanfang in an undated photo. (Photo courtesy of Wang Yanfang.)
A rights activist recently released from prison in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has described being shackled to a single spot and denied food and water during his incarceration. Continue reading
‘I Was Tortured in Detention’: Released Guangzhou Three Activist已关闭评论
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Tagged Guangzhou, prison, Released, Tang Jingling, Torture, Wang Qingying, Yuan Xinting
Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia in Beijing, Oct. 22, 2002. AFP
Six years after winning the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo looks unlikely to be given the chance to ‘seek medical parole’ overseas like high-profile dissidents have done before him, a close associate told RFA. Continue reading
Six Years On, China’s Jailed Nobel Laureate, Family Face a Bleak Future已关闭评论
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Tagged Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Prize
Sex Female
Birth date 1965
Birth place Tai’an City, Shandong Province
Resident place Beijing Continue reading
