2015-10-15
Wang Yu (L) and her son Bao Zhuoxuan (R) in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of a family friend.
As the United States expressed concern over the plight of the 16-year-old son of two detained Chinese rights lawyers, the country’s tightly controlled state media Continue reading
Detained Chinese Lawyers’ Son Smuggled to Myanmar by Banned Opposition Party: State Media已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Bao Zhuoxuan, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
2015-10-14
Wang Yu (L) and Bao Zhuoxuan (R) in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Bao Zhuoxuan
The teenage son of two detained Chinese rights lawyers was detained alongside two friends and fellow activists in a cross-border police operation in a rebel-controlled part of Continue reading
Chinese Police Worked With Myanmar Rebels to Arrest Son of Detained Rights Lawyers: Sources已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Bao Zhuoxuan, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
PUBLISHED ON MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2015.
As the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet, Reporters Without Borders notes that the 2010 recipient, the cyber-dissident Liu Xiaobo, has been languishing in a Chinese prison for nearly seven years. The organization urges the international community to put pressure on Beijing to release the citizen journalist.
The Chinese government has been arbitrarily holding Liu Xiaobo, Continue reading
2010 PEACE LAUREATE LANGUISHES IN CHINESE JAIL IN FACE OF INTERNATIONAL INDIFFERENCE已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
2015-10-13
A file photo of Chinese journalist Gao Yu speaking at a press conference in Hong Kong.
AFP
A lawyer for jailed Chinese journalist Gao Yu on Tuesday warned of her deteriorating health in prison after she received emergency treatment for a heart attack earlier this month.
Lawyer Shang Baojun visited Gao in a Beijing detention Continue reading
Concerns Grow For Jailed Chinese Journalist Gao Yu After Illness已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, Jailed, Journalist
By MICHAEL FORSYTHE OCT. 12, 2015
HONG KONG — The 16-year-old son of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer is now living under house arrest in northern China after being snatched at a Myanmar border town last week as he was trying to escape to the United States, a family friend said.
Bao Zhuoxuan, the son of the prominent human rights lawyer Wang Yu, Continue reading
Bao Zhuoxuan, Son of Rights Lawyer Held in China, Is Said to Be Under House Arrest已关闭评论
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Tagged Bao Zhuoxuan, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
Published: October 1, 2015
“Why would the results of a poll conducted by a neutral, respected polling organization tally so closely with the propaganda of a totalitarian government?”
Can it be that 92.8% of Chinese poll respondents are truly satisfied with the Chinese central government, and that among these, 37.6% are “extremely satisfied”? For over a decade, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Continue reading
Chang Ping: We’d Be Satisfied With Any Government!已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Chang Ping, Gao Yu, Ilham Tohti, Liu Xiaobo, Xu Zhiyong
2015-10-08
Liu Xia (r) and rights lawyer Mo Shaoping (l) arrive at her brother Liu Hui’s trial in Beijing on April 23, 2013.
AFP
Five years after being awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, activists are calling on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to release his wife Liu Xia, Continue reading
Five Years On, Liu Xiaobo’s Wife Stays Silent, Under House Arrest已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
Tagged Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo
015-10-07
Rights lawyers like Pu Zhiqiang (front right, in May 3, 2014 photo) are an endangered species in China.
Photo courtesy of China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD).
Dozens of Chinese lawyers have written to the country’s parliament calling for an end to legal requirements that they join their professional association, amid an ongoing crackdown on the embattled legal profession.
The letter calls for the repeal of Clause 15 of China’s Continue reading
Chinese Lawyers Call For The Abolition of Their Professional Body已关闭评论
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Tagged China, Human Rights Lawyer
