A detained Swedish rights activist has appeared on Chinese state television apparently confessing to breaking the law through his group’s activities.
Peter Dahlin has been held since early January amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists. Continue reading
Swedish activist Peter Dahlin ‘confesses’ on China TV已关闭评论
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By Editorial Board January 18 at 6:32 PM
Human rights lawyer Wang Yu talks during an interview with Reuters in Beijing in 2014. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
FOR ALL the semblance of a judicial system, with lawyers, judges and prosecutors, China’s courts remain a tool of a party-state that sees itself as above the law. People can be detained for months — they simply disappear — and only later formally charged or tried. In China, detention means being sucked into the vortex of arbitrary rule. Continue reading
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(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 | 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
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
China arrests most prominent woman rights lawyer for 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
China charges human rights lawyers with ‘subversion’已关闭评论
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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
Tom Phillips : Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer missing for six months tells of despair已关闭评论
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A Chinese citizen holds a placard showing support for rights lawyer Shu Xiangxin outside the Licheng District People’s Court in Jinan, eastern China’s Shandong province, Jan. 8, 2016. Photo courtesy of a rights activist
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong on Friday handed a six-month jail term to detained rights lawyer Shu Xiangxin, whose lawyers say he was tortured while in custody at a police-run detention center. Continue reading
China Jails Tortured Rights Lawyer For Six Months Amid Protests已关闭评论
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© AFP / by Tom Hancock | Li Wenzu tells her three-year old son his daddy is on a “business trip”
TIANJIN (CHINA) (AFP) -Every day Li Wenzu’s son asks her why his daddy has not come home, she says. Her husband went missing six months ago in a sweeping crackdown on Chinese human rights lawyers, but she tells the three-year-old he is on a “business trip”. Continue reading
Anguish for families of missing China lawyers已关闭评论
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