BY SUI-LEE WEE
BEIJING Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:31pm BST
Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in Beijing in this July 20, 2012 picture.
CREDIT: REUTERS/PETAR KUJUNDZIC
(Reuters) – Chinese police have Continue reading
BY SUI-LEE WEE
BEIJING Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:31pm BST
Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in Beijing in this July 20, 2012 picture.
CREDIT: REUTERS/PETAR KUJUNDZIC
(Reuters) – Chinese police have Continue reading
Chinese police question rights lawyer about meeting with former U.S. envoy已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
By Yaxue Cao, published: August 15, 2014
GAO ZHISHENG DURING HIS BRIEF REAPPEARANCE IN APRIL 2010.
Few Americans know Gao Zhisheng. Continue reading
Yaxue Cao: Save Gao Zhisheng已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Zhisheng, Human Rights Lawyer
2014-08-14
Gao Zhisheng during an interview at his office in Beijing, in a file photo.
AFP
A week after Continue reading
Chinese Dissident Gao ‘Utterly Destroyed’ Following Torture in Prison已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Zhisheng, Human Rights Lawyer, Torture
2014-08-13
Ilham Tohti in Beijing, August 2012.
Photo courtesy of Ilham Tohti Continue reading
Lawyer For Uyghur Scholar Denied Evidence Ahead of Trial已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Uighur, Writers in Prison
Tagged Ilham Tohti, Scholar, Uyghur
By CHRIS BUCKLEYAUG. 7, 2014
Gao Zhisheng in 2010. Credit Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press
HONG KONG — One of China’s most famous dissident lawyers, Continue reading
Prominent Rights Lawyer Is Freed From Chinese Prison, His Relatives Say已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Zhisheng, Human Rights Lawyer
Gao Zhisheng was released from Xijiang’s Shaya Prison on August 7, 2014. Image credit: rfa.org
Gao Zhisheng (高智晟), a defense lawyer known for taking on politically sensitive Continue reading
Gao Zhisheng Begins Sentence of Deprivation of Political Rights已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Zhisheng, Human Rights Lawyer
Posted on August 6, 2014 by Bjorklundk
Liu Hu in an undated photo courtesy of Reporters Without Borders.
Rights groups are welcoming the release of Chinese investigative reporter Continue reading
Nearly One Year Later, Chinese Investigative Journalist Who Exposed Corruption Released on Bail已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY
BEIJING — Chinese dissident and human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been released after spending three years in prison but authorities may severely restrict his freedom, his lawyer, friends and human rights activists said Thursday.
Gao, 50, has defended some of China’s most persecuted people. He was released Thursday after serving a sentence for “inciting subversion of state power,” a state security charge that Human Rights Watch, a New York-based group, says is often used against peaceful government critics. Continue reading
Chinese dissident freed but real freedom unlikely已关闭评论
Posted in Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Zhisheng