2015-10-02
Zhong Jinhua (R) and a colleague in Shenzhen in an undated photo.
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Zhong Jinhua, a former judge at the Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang who became a lawyer to escape political interference, arrived last month in the United States along with his family.
His arrival on Sept. 4 coincided with a nationwide police operation targeting human Continue reading
‘Chinese Lawyers Live in Constant Fear’: Former Chinese Judge已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Zhong Jinhua
Dissident artist posts images of suspected bugs on Instagram after returning to China following first overseas trip in four years
Ai Weiwei during his visit to London. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex
Sunday 4 October 2015 06.45 EDT Last modified on Sunday 4 October 2015 19.01 EDT
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei has returned to China after his first overseas trip in four years and discovered what appear to be listening devices hidden in his studio.
In a series of Instagram and Twitter posts on Sunday, the pop artist Continue reading
Ai Weiwei finds ‘listening devices’ hidden in Beijing studio已关闭评论
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Tagged Ai Weiwei
Dear Members of Parliament,
In October 2015, the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will make an official State Visit to Britain. We, the undersigned, are calling on the UK government to uphold human rights principles and urge China to adhere to international protocols and conventions on human rights and end its gross human rights violations in Tibet, East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and across China.
We ask you, as a member of parliament, to help us hold China to Continue reading
2015-09-30
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ctivist and businessman Huang Yongxiang in undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Chen Keyun.
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have released on ‘bail’ four activists who launched a T-shirt campaign in support of detained human rights lawyers, amid an ongoing crackdown on the country’s embattled legal profession.
Police in Guangdong’s Zengcheng city had detained Liu Yajie Continue reading
Chinese Activists Who Made Lawyer T-Shirts Released on ‘Bail’已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
2015-09-29
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang on Tuesday ended the subversion trial of two members of a banned opposition party after both men pleaded not guilty, their lawyers said.
Lu Gengsong and Chen Shuqing, both members of the banned opposition China Democracy Party (CDP), Continue reading
China Tries Two Opposition Party Activists For Subversion已关闭评论
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Tagged CHEN SHUQING, LÜ GENGSONG, Subversion
23 September 2015
Gao Zhisheng during an interview in 2006Image copyrightAP
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Gao Zhisheng says he was tortured with an electric baton to the face
Prominent Chinese dissident and human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has broken his silence to describe how he was allegedly tortured and kept in solitary confinement while in detention.
The 51-year-old lawyer was released from prison in August 2014.
At the time, his lawyer described Mr Gao, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, as emotionless, Continue reading
Gao Zhisheng: Chinese lawyer describes ‘torture’已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Zhisheng, Human Rights Lawyer
September 2, 2015
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Obama,
We are writing as your fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to ask that you call publicly on the Government of China to release from house arrest Liu Xia, the wife our imprisoned fellow Laureate Dr. Liu Xiaobo, and to allow her to travel abroad for medical treatment as she has requested. Continue reading
Letter to President Obama From 12 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates已关闭评论
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Tagged Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Xi Jinping
By EDWARD WONG SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 5:04 AM September 18, 2015 5:04 am
A photograph of Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace laureate, at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. In 2009, he was charged with “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced to 11 years in prison.Credit Espen Rasmussen for The New York Times
For them, pens and laptops are the tools of their trade and their megaphones to the world. Among their ranks are some of the best-known chroniclers of American society and Continue reading
PEN Appeals to Xi Jinping for Release of Imprisoned Chinese已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, Press Freedom, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
Tagged America, Gao Yu, Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo, PEN, Release, Writer
