Flier calling for the release of (clockwise from left) Xie Wenfei, Hwang Jingyi, Liang Qinhui, Zhang Shengyu, Wang Mo and Master Shengguan, April 8, 2016. Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Friday handed jail terms of up to four-and-a-half years to four rights activists who publicly supported the 2014 pro-democracy Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong. Continue reading
China Jails Four Supporters of Hong Kong Democracy Movement已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Internet Freedom, Subversion
Tagged conviction, Guangzhou, Hwang Jingyi, inciting subversion of the state power, LIANG QINHUI, Master Shengguan, sentence, Wang Mo, Wuhan, Xie Wenfei, XU ZHIQIANG, Zhang Shengyu
Li Aijie, wife of jailed Xinjiang-based rights activist Zhang Haitao, and the couple’s baby in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of Li Aijie
The wife of jailed rights activist Zhang Haitao, a critic of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group, said on Tuesday that she has been left with no income, relying on relatives to feed the couple’s child over Chinese New Year. Continue reading
Wife of Jailed Xinjiang Activist Left With Baby, No Income已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion
Tagged Li Aijie, Xinjiang, Zhang Haitao
(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
China: Subversion Charges Target Lawyers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, honorary Members, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion
Tagged arrest, Hu Shigen, lawyers, Liu Sixin, Subversion, Wang Quanzhang, Wang Yu, Xie Yanyi, Zhao Wei
2015-09-09
Activists in Hong Kong demonstrate for the release of rights lawyers detained on the Chinese mainland, Aug. 25, 2015.
RFA
Two months after Chinese police carried out a midnight raid on the home of prominent human rights lawyer Wang Yu and her husband, sparking a nationwide police operation targeting hundreds of attorneys, her lawyers marched to a police station near where she is believed to be held to demand a meeting with Wang.
Li Weida and Lu Zhoubin, Continue reading
Two Months On, Lawyers For China’s Detained Attorneys Still Don’t Know Where They Are已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion, Writers in Prison
Tagged Detained, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
By John Sudworth
BBC News, Beijing
Wang Qiaoling has not heard from her husband Li Heping since he was taken away two months ago
Faced with injustice. there are many people in China who make a perfectly understandable choice: it is better to protect yourself and your family than to risk the wrath of the authorities by speaking out.
And then there Continue reading
Wang Qiaoling’s battle to find missing lawyer husband, Li Heping已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Li Heping
2015-09-08
Qin Yongmin, in an undated photo.
Courtesy of Qin Yongmin
A veteran Chinese dissident who has been held in detention at an unknown location since January now faces subversion charges, while his wife remains “disappeared,” fellow activists told RFA on Tuesday.
Wuhan-based dissident Qin Yongmin, who Continue reading
Veteran Chinese Rights Activist Qin Yongmin Being Probed For ‘Subversion’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Defender, QIN YONGMIN, Subversion
