Category Archives: Writers in Prison

180. ZHANG MIAO (released)

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Zhang MiaoPenname                      

Sex                               Female

Birth date                1974-05-01

Birth place               Beijing

Resident place         Songzhuang , Tongzhou District, Beijing Continue reading →

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Xiao Shu：In China, to Destroy Lives Is Legal, but to Save Them Is Not

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e983ade78e89e997aa2Published: January 11, 2015

GUO YUSHAN (郭玉闪)

I no longer have the desire to argue about the treatment of Guo Yushan and his colleagues from a legal perspective. We know that “illegal business practices” was the charge for which Guo was formally arrested on December 6th, Continue reading →

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Xiao Shu：Guo Feixiong, a Civil Rights Hero

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Published: January 8, 2015

A verdict awaits the pioneer of China’s rights movement after he stood trial the second time last November. Veteran commentator Xiao Shu, writing originally in the New York Continue reading →

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Prison Sentence for Maker of Documentary on Chinese Constitutional Rule

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By EDWARD WONG

DECEMBER 30, 2014

[Video: Shen Yongping was given a year in prison after making “A Hundred Years of Constitutionalism.” Watch on YouTube.]

A Chinese filmmaker who made a documentary on the Chinese Continue reading →

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Few Clues in Chinese Editor’s Detention

Posted on 12/26/2014 by | Few Clues in Chinese Editor’s Detention已关闭评论

03sino-EDITOR-articleLarge (1)Xu Xiao, left, with the writer Zheng Shiping, who uses the pen name Yefu, at a lecture in September 2012.

By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Even amid a hardening crackdown on civil society and rights activists in China, Continue reading →

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Fifth Anniversary of Liu Xiaobo’s Conviction

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Press Statement

John Kerry
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
December 24, 2014

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and writer Liu Xiaobo today spends the fifth anniversary of his conviction for “inciting subversion” in prison, serving out an 11-year sentence. Continue reading →

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The Global Lawyer: The Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics

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Michael D. Goldhaber, The Litigation Daily

October 31, 2014

Gao-Zhisheng-GoldhaberGao Zhisheng in The American Lawyer, November 2005.

In November 2005, The American Lawyer ran a full-page photo of the Continue reading →

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Searching for Elder Sister Kou Yanding

Posted on 12/20/2014 by | Searching for Elder Sister Kou Yanding已关闭评论

kou_yan_dingPosted on December 10, 2014 by auravoicesforhumanrights

Kou Yanding was taken away by police in Beijing on October 10th for “picking quarrels and provoking disturbances.” Continue reading →

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