Chinese rights activist jailed for six years

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Police officers stand guard outside the court house, blocking roads to the Guangzhou People's Court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou September 12, 2014. REUTERS/James Pomfret/Files

Police officers stand guard outside the court house, blocking roads to the Guangzhou People’s Court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou September 12, 2014. REUTERS/James Pomfret/Files

Police officers stand guard outside the court house, blocking roads to the Guangzhou People’s Court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou September 12, 2014.
REUTERS/JAMES POMFRET/FILES

A prominent Chinese rights activist, Guo Feixiong, was sentenced to six years imprisonment Continue reading →

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Chinese Court to Pass Verdict on Guo Feixiong, Two Others

Posted on 11/26/2015 by | Chinese Court to Pass Verdict on Guo Feixiong, Two Others已关闭评论

2015-11-23

imageGuo Feixiong in a file photo.
Photo courtesy of Guo Feixiong

Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are expected to announce the verdict in the long-delayed case of a prominent human rights activist later this week after holding him in conditions described by his family as ‘slow torture,’ his lawyer said on Monday.

Yang Maodong, better known by his pseudonym Guo Feixiong, will attend a verdict hearing in the provincial capital Guangzhou along with two co-defendants on Friday.

Guo is awaiting the verdict on charges of “gathering a Continue reading →

Chinese Court to Pass Verdict on Guo Feixiong, Two Others已关闭评论

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Grassroots Activist Wang Mo Tells Court: I Committed No Crime Trying to Subvert the Communist Regime

Posted on 11/25/2015 by | 1 comment

By Wang Mo, published: November 22, 2015

On October 3, 2014, Chinese activists Xie Wenfei (谢文飞, a.k.a. Xie Fengxia 谢丰厦), and Wang Mo (王默, real name Zhang Shengyu 张圣雨) held banners in the streets of Guangzhou, expressing support for the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. They were arrested the same evening and indicted on May 12, 2015, for “inciting subversion of state power.” On Nov. 19, Wang Mo was tried in a Guangzhou court (Zhang had been tried separately a week earlier.) Verdicts in both trials are pending. Following is an abbreviated translation of Wang Mo’s defense. The translation remains unauthorized because permission could not be secured from the writer. – The Editors

Decades ago Chinese Communist Party, crying slogans about opposing corruption, opposing dictatorship, and pursuing liberty and democracy, subverted the Nationalist regime of the Republic of China and drove the Nationalist government to Taiwan. The Republic of China was then Continue reading →

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Gao Yu: Court upholds verdict for jailed Chinese journalist

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_86883454_030276003-1Ms Gao, seen here in a 2007 file picture, is a well-known investigative journalist

A Chinese court has upheld a guilty verdict against a senior journalist accused of leaking state secrets, her lawyer said.

Gao Yu did, however, receive a reduced sentence from seven years to five years in prison.

Ms Gao, who is 71, was found guilty last April and appealed her Continue reading →

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China’s President Praises Hu Yaobang, a Fallen Party Reformer

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November 22, 2015

20huyaobang02-articleLarge-v2Students in Beijing on April 22, 1989, after the death of Hu Yaobang, who had been removed as Communist Party general secretary two years earlier. His death set off weeks of protests.
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China’s staunchly traditionalist Communist leader, Xi Jinping, paid tribute on Friday to a predecessor, Hu Yaobang, who was in many ways his opposite in temperament and politics.

Mr. Hu was a passionate liberalizer in the 1980s, Continue reading →

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Chinese Lawyer’s Solitary Confinement Amounts to ‘Slow Torture’: Wife

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2015-11-18

Guo Feixiong in a file photo.
Photo courtesy of Guo Feixiong

The wife of a Chinese rights lawyer who has been in movement-restricted solitary confinement with no fresh air or exercise for more than two years has hit out at his inhumane treatment as Beijing’s torture record is reviewed by the United Nations.

U.S.-based Zhang Qing, wife of jailed Chinese rights lawyer Continue reading →

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China’s Plan to ‘Rank’ Lawyers Faces Criticism

Posted on 11/22/2015 by | China’s Plan to ‘Rank’ Lawyers Faces Criticism已关闭评论

temp_15112023459558Joyce Huang

November 20, 2015 5:32 AM

China has drawn international criticism over a crackdown on human rights lawyers this year, and there are reports that authorities may be planning even broader restrictions over the legal profession.

Remin University law professor Chen Weidong, who has helped draft legislation including amendments to China’s criminal law, said authorities may soon launch a mechanism to Continue reading →

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Activists Shout For a ‘Democratic China’ in Guangzhou Subversion Trial

Posted on 11/21/2015 by | Activists Shout For a ‘Democratic China’ in Guangzhou Subversion Trial已关闭评论

2015-11-19

image (52)Chinese activists Xiewen Fei (L) and Wang Mo (R) are pictured in an undated photo.
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Two Chinese activists who publicly supported last year’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong stood trial for subversion at a court in the southern province of Guangdong on Thursday, their lawyers said.

Xie Wenfei and Wang Mo appeared at the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court on Thursday charged with “incitement to subvert state power” in a trial Continue reading →

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