11 December 2015, 19:16 UTC
The Chinese authorities must end their persecution of prominent human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, Amnesty International said, ahead of his trial which is set to begin on Monday in Beijing.
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China: Trial of lawyer Pu Zhiqiang an act of political persecution已关闭评论
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Tagged Indictment, Pu Zhiqiang, trial
November 28, 2015
Translated by Matthew Robertson; posted on December 3, 2015
GAO ZHISHENG AND GUO FEIXIONG IN 2006.
Gao Zhisheng composed the following letter after hearing about the six year prison sentence handed to rights activist Guo Feixiong, and after reading Guo’s spirited defense and condemnation of the Party’s rule. As the letter made the rounds on social media, the Chinese authorities promptly cut off Gao’s cell phone service and placed him under house arrest in his late mother’s cave dwelling in Shaanxi Province. Both Gao Zhisheng and Guo Feixiong are Christians. — The Editors Continue reading
Gao Zhisheng: Join Them, and Prove Your Worth by Helping China’s Historic Change已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Zhisheng, Guo Feixiong
2015-12-08
Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who has been held on questionable charges since May 2014, in an undated file photo.
AFP
Authorities in the Chinese capital on Tuesday indicated for the first time that racial hatred and public order charges against a top human rights lawyer are based on a handful of his tweets, Continue reading
Charges Against Top Chinese Rights Lawyer Based on Seven Tweets已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
‘Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.’ – Liu Xiaobo Continue reading
China: Seven years after his arrest PEN writers urge China to release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo and wife Liu Xia已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights, Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize, PEN
2015-12-02
Gao Zhisheng during an interview at his office in Beijing, in a file photo.
AFP
UPDATED at 1:50 p.m. EST on 2015-12-02
Dissident rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who remains under house arrest since his release from prison in August 2014, has ‘disappeared’ once more, his friends and family told RFA.
Gao, who is still denied any freedom of movement and access to much-needed medical treatment, lost contact with the outside world after he spoke out against the jailing of a fellow rights lawyer in the southern city of Guangzhou, Gao’s wife Geng He told RFA.
“I called Gao Zhisheng’s older brother last night but he was mumbling with Continue reading
Dissident Chinese Lawyer ‘Incommunicado’ After Online Anger Over Activist’s Sentence已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Zhisheng, Guo Feixiong, Human Rights Lawyer
By CHRIS BUCKLEY NOV. 27, 2015
Yang Maodong, a veteran protester better known by his pen name, Guo Feixiong. Credit Zhang Qing
BEIJING — Yang Maodong, a hardened veteran of political protest in southern China, knew he had virtually no hope of winning his freedom on Friday when he was brought into a courtroom to face a judge’s verdict on charges that he had disturbed public order.
Chinese judges, after all, convict and imprison indicted dissidents with metronomic consistency, reflecting the ruling Communist Party’s control of the courts.
Still, Mr. Yang — a human rights campaigner better Continue reading
Chinese Rights Advocate Known as Guo Feixiong Convicted of Unexpected New Charge已关闭评论
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By EDWARD WONG NOV. 28, 2015
YUSHU, China — When officials forced an informal school run by monks near here to stop offering language classes for laypeople, Tashi Wangchuk looked for a place where his two teenage nieces could continue studying Tibetan.
To his surprise, he could not find one, even though nearly everyone living in this market town on the Tibetan plateau here is Tibetan.
Officials had also ordered other monasteries and a private school in the area not to teach the language to laypeople. And public schools had dropped true bilingual education Continue reading
By Wang Mo, published: November 22, 2015
On October 3, 2014, Chinese activists Xie Wenfei (谢文飞, a.k.a. Xie Fengxia 谢丰厦), and Wang Mo (王默, real name Zhang Shengyu 张圣雨) held banners in the streets of Guangzhou, expressing support for the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. They were arrested the same evening and indicted on May 12, 2015, for “inciting subversion of state power.” On Nov. 19, Wang Mo was tried in a Guangzhou court (Zhang had been tried separately a week earlier.) Verdicts in both trials are pending. Following is an abbreviated translation of Wang Mo’s defense. The translation remains unauthorized because permission could not be secured from the writer. – The Editors
Decades ago Chinese Communist Party, crying slogans about opposing corruption, opposing dictatorship, and pursuing liberty and democracy, subverted the Nationalist regime of the Republic of China and drove the Nationalist government to Taiwan. The Republic of China was then Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Subversion, Writers in Prison
Tagged Subversion, Wang Mo
