FILE – Pictures of jailed veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu are displayed by protesters outside Chinese central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong.
November 26, 2015 1:50 AM
Chinese authorities have released on medical leave a 71-year-old journalist imprisoned on charges of leaking state secrets.
State media reported the development Continue reading
China Releases 71-Year-Old Journalist from Prison已关闭评论
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26 November 2015
Update #3 to RAN 09/14
PEN International is deeply disappointed by the Beijing high court’s decision of 26 November 2015 not to overturn veteran journalist Gao Yu’s conviction for ‘leaking state secrets abroad’. Following a closed hearing held on 24 November, the court ruled to reduce her sentence to five years. PEN continues to condemn her conviction and sentence, and calls for her immediate and unconditional release. Nonetheless, PEN welcomes reports that Gao Yu is due to serve the remainder of her sentence under house arrest due to concerns for her deteriorating health and strongly urges the Chinese authorities to ensure that Gao Yu is afforded adequate medical care. Continue reading
China: Conviction of veteran journalist Gao Yu upheld on appeal已关闭评论
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Thu Nov 26, 2015 11:33pm EST
Police officers stand guard outside the court house, blocking roads to the Guangzhou People’s Court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou September 12, 2014. REUTERS/James Pomfret/Files
Police officers stand guard outside the court house, blocking roads to the Guangzhou People’s Court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou September 12, 2014.
REUTERS/JAMES POMFRET/FILES
A prominent Chinese rights activist, Guo Feixiong, was sentenced to six years imprisonment Continue reading
Chinese rights activist jailed for six years已关闭评论
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Tagged Guo Feixiong, Liu Yuandong, Liu Yuandong and Sun Desheng
2015-11-23
Guo Feixiong in a file photo.
Photo courtesy of Guo Feixiong
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are expected to announce the verdict in the long-delayed case of a prominent human rights activist later this week after holding him in conditions described by his family as ‘slow torture,’ his lawyer said on Monday.
Yang Maodong, better known by his pseudonym Guo Feixiong, will attend a verdict hearing in the provincial capital Guangzhou along with two co-defendants on Friday.
Guo is awaiting the verdict on charges of “gathering a Continue reading
Chinese Court to Pass Verdict on Guo Feixiong, Two Others已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Yu, Guo Feixiong
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
Ms Gao, seen here in a 2007 file picture, is a well-known investigative journalist
A Chinese court has upheld a guilty verdict against a senior journalist accused of leaking state secrets, her lawyer said.
Gao Yu did, however, receive a reduced sentence from seven years to five years in prison.
Ms Gao, who is 71, was found guilty last April and appealed her Continue reading
Gao Yu: Court upholds verdict for jailed Chinese journalist已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Yu, Journalist
2015-11-18
Guo Feixiong in a file photo.
Photo courtesy of Guo Feixiong
The wife of a Chinese rights lawyer who has been in movement-restricted solitary confinement with no fresh air or exercise for more than two years has hit out at his inhumane treatment as Beijing’s torture record is reviewed by the United Nations.
U.S.-based Zhang Qing, wife of jailed Chinese rights lawyer Continue reading
Chinese Lawyer’s Solitary Confinement Amounts to ‘Slow Torture’: Wife已关闭评论
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Tagged Guo Feixiong, Torture
2015-11-19
Chinese activists Xiewen Fei (L) and Wang Mo (R) are pictured in an undated photo.
(Photo courtesy of activists)
Two Chinese activists who publicly supported last year’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong stood trial for subversion at a court in the southern province of Guangdong on Thursday, their lawyers said.
Xie Wenfei and Wang Mo appeared at the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court on Thursday charged with “incitement to subvert state power” in a trial Continue reading
Activists Shout For a ‘Democratic China’ in Guangzhou Subversion Trial已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion, Writers in Prison
Tagged Subversion, Wang Mo, Xie Wenfei
