China’s Women’s Rights Movement Has Long History

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Shannon Van Sant

May 19, 2015 9:02 AM

HONG KONG—Earlier this year several feminists in China were arrested just before an international day celebrating women’s equality. They were some of Continue reading

China Releases Rights Lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang’s Niece, ‘On Bail’

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Pu Zhiqiang (front right) attends a seminar about the Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing, May 3, 2014.
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Authorities in the Chinese capital have released Qu Zhenhong, niece and former defense attorney of jailed rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, Continue reading

Chinese Rights Lawyer Detained in 2014 Will Stand Trial

 

By CHRIS BUCKLEY  MAY 15, 2015

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HONG KONG — One of China’s best-known human rights lawyers, Pu Zhiqiang, will stand trial in Beijing on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and picking quarrels, prosecutors said on Friday. Continue reading

For Whom the Bell Tolls: One Chinese NGO’s Alleged Crime of “Illegal Business Operation”

By Wan Yanhai, published: May 13, 2015

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In March 2007, Guo Yushan (郭玉闪)and others co-founded Transition Social and Economic Consulting Limited, otherwise known as Beijing Transition Institute. In July 2013, Continue reading

China Indicts Top Rights Lawyer on Ethnic Hatred Charge

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Pu Zhiqiang (C), the lawyer for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, talks to the media at the artist’s studio in Beijing, Nov. 14, 2011.
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Authorities in the Chinese capital on Friday indicted a prominent rights lawyer for Continue reading

Tibetans, Uyghurs ‘Blacklisted’ at Hotels in Chinese Cities

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Security forces participate in a military drill in Hotan, Xinjiang, June 6, 2014.
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Tibetans and members of the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group have been placed Continue reading

HO PIN: Gao Yu’s Real Crime

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One evening in June 2013, I received a call from a man who identified himself as an official for the Chinese Communist Party’s Propaganda Department in Beijing. Continue reading

China Reforms to Curb Torture Don’t Go Far Enough-Human Rights Watch

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Geng He, wife of China’s leading human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, speaks at a press conference in Washington, Sept. 9, 2014.
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Measures introduced by China over the past six years to curb torture and mistreatment of criminal detainees have not done enough to reduce abuses, Continue reading