Chinese authorities have punished 197 people for spreading rumours online about the recent stock market crash and fatal explosions in Tianjin, according to state news agency Xinhua.
A journalist and stock market officials are among those arrested, Xinhua said. It gave no other details.
Chinese shares fell by nearly 8% after a week of volatile trading Continue reading
China punishes 197 over stock market and Tianjin ‘rumours’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Samantha Power
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Washington, DC
September 1, 2015
AS DELIVERED
AMBASSADOR POWER: Thank you. Good afternoon. Twenty years ago, 189 governments and approximately 30,000 nongovernmental organizations – activists from around the globe convened in Beijing for a world conference to advance gender equality and women’s rights. Continue reading
Samantha Power: Remarks at the FreeThe20 Campaign Launch已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
Tagged Campaign, FreeThe20, Gao Yu, Liu Xia, Samantha Power, Wang Yu
FILE – Believers take part in a weekend mass at an underground Catholic church in Tianjin.
Hai Yan
August 31, 2015 4:37 PM
HONG KONG—Attorneys in China have confirmed that a prominent human rights lawyer has been put under six months of residential surveillance after being taken away by police from a Christian church in Wenzhou.
Colleagues of Zhang Kai told VOA Monday he has been confined on suspicion of “endangering state security “and “disturbing the public order,” two charges that are routinely brought against dissidents in China.
Human rights activists have told VOA that after taking away Zhang Kai and two assistants, Wenzhou police also detained more than 10 Christians, including pastors. Some have since been released, but most are still in custody.
The fate of Zhang’s assistants is not clear.
VOA called police in Wenzhou, but was unable to get a comment about the case.
Zhang was one of more than 100 human rights lawyers who were rounded up by Chinese authorities in July. His colleagues say he was later released after being warned not to hold any law lectures or represent any church cases.
He had been representing churches which have been battling official attempts to tear down crucifixes and houses of worship in Wenzhou. According to religious rights groups, about 1,500 crucifixes have been torn down in Zhejiang province, which includes Wenzhou. Several churches have been demolished.
Liu Xiaoyuan, another rights protection lawyer, told VOA that residential surveillance “are usually hotels, so the investigators can contact the parties directly. The party is left alone in the room, and the investigator keeps watch on him every day. This cause more psychological stress.”
He added that authorities use the charge of “endangering state security“ to prevent the lawyers from meeting with their clients.
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China Religious Rights Lawyer Given 6 Months of Detention已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Religious Freedom
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Zhang Kai
2015-08-28
Two recently sentenced human smugglers are shown at their trial in Xinjiang in an undated photo.
From the Internet
Authorities in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang have handed down jail terms to alleged human traffickers for helping people cross the border and illegally leave China, official media reported.
Forty-five people were tried in 10 separate cases in parts of the region near Continue reading
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW August 27, 2015
In the children’s play “Five Fools,” Circus Master, right, learns a lesson about the power of kindness as she pressures Little Flower, left, to talk.
Wang Zhaohui
At the Drum Tower West Theater in Beijing last week, Circus Master was torturing Little Flower because she would not speak and was ruining the show.
She ordered Clown and Strong Man — other members of her troupe Continue reading
Setting a Stage for Kindness in Chinese Society已关闭评论
Posted in Culture
Tagged Five Fools, Wang Zhaohui
2015-08-26
Lawyer Zhang Kai (C) is shown with two assistants in Wenzhou, Aug. 25, 2015.
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener.
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have detained a top Beijing rights lawyer who was advising local Christians in their bid to resist the demolition of crosses from local churches.
Zhang Kai had recently been based in the coastal city of Wenzhou, Continue reading
China Detains Lawyer in Zhejiang Amid Ongoing Cross Demolition Program已关闭评论
Posted in Human Rights Lawyer, Religious Freedom
Tagged Cross, Demolition, Human Rights Lawyer, Zhang Kai, Zhejiang
2015-08-27
Occupy Central leader Joshua Wong speaks to the media after a vote at the city’s legislature in Hong Kong, June 18, 2015.
AFP
The face of last year’s pro-democracy Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong, Joshua Wong, hit out on Thursday after being charged by police for his role in the mass protests for universal suffrage in the former British colony.
Wong, 18, who could face a jail term of up to five years, Continue reading
Hong Kong Charges Occupy Central Leaders With Public Order Offenses已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
By Ka Pa and Wei Ling
2015-08-26
Rights activist Gong Yujian (R) and former Tiananmen student leader Wu’er Kaixi (L) meet in Taiwan in an undated photo.
(Photo courtesy of Gong Yujian)
UPDATED at 12:42 P.M. EST on 26-08-2015
A veteran Chinese dissident who applied for political asylum in Taiwan during a tourist visit to the democratic island has had his application refused, he told RFA on Wednesday.
Gong Yujian, who served time in a labor camp in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Continue reading
Taiwan Turns Down Asylum Request by 1989 Chinese Democracy Activist已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Asylum, Gong Yujian, June 4th, Taiwan, Tiananmen
