
Taipei, March 28 (CNA) The wife of Taiwanese human rights advocate Lee Ming-che (李明哲) said Tuesday she had been informed that her husband was under arrest in China and she would like to visit him. Continue reading

Taipei, March 28 (CNA) The wife of Taiwanese human rights advocate Lee Ming-che (李明哲) said Tuesday she had been informed that her husband was under arrest in China and she would like to visit him. Continue reading
Lee Ming-che’s wife says he’s in detention in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Taiwan
Tagged AI, detention, Lee Ming-che, NGO
A Sydney professor and critic of growing Chinese government influence in Australia has been prevented from boarding a flight to return home to Sydney, and the ABC understands he has been told he is not allowed to leave China. Continue reading
UTS Professor Chongyi Feng detained in China, stopped from boarding return flight to Australia已关闭评论
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Tagged Chongyi Feng, detention, Sydney, UTS
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Eleven countries have jointly called on the Chinese government to investigate reports of torture against human rights lawyers and urged Beijing to abandon a controversial detention system that holds suspects in secret locations for months at a time. Continue reading
Canada, 10 other countries call out China for torturing human rights lawyers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Australia, Belgium, Canada, detention, Estonia, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, letter, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Torture, United Kingdom

Petitioners in Beijing (faces obscured) hold a banner demanding government intervention in their cases, Jan. 30 2017. Photo sent by Wu Jixin
Authorities in the Chinese capital have detained thousands of people who converged there to highlight grievances against government officials in their hometowns, sending them off to start the Year of the Rooster in a detention center. Continue reading
China Detains Thousands With Grievances as Year of Rooster Begins已关闭评论
Tagged detention, petitioner, Year of Rooster

Detained Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang is shown with his daughter in an undated photo. Photo sent by an RFA listener
A rights group on Tuesday called for the immediate release of detained Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang, detailing his lawyers’ reports of his torture in a police-run detention center in the central province of Hunan. Continue reading
Detained Chinese Rights Lawyer Files Complaint Over Torture in Detention已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion
Li Chunfu (李春富) is a human rights lawyer and the younger brother of the well-known rights lawyer Li Heping (李和平). On August 1, 2015, he was taken into custody (less than a month after his brother was also detained on July 10) and put under residential surveillance for six months. In January 2016 he was formally arrested on charges of “subversion of state power.” On January 5, 2017, he was granted China’s version of bail awaiting trial, and on January 12 returned home by police. Following is the first report by Wang Qiaoling (王峭岭), Li Heping’s wife, of the homecoming. We know from multiple cases of personal testimony, both published and privately relayed, that the 709 detainees have been subjected to extreme torture in custody. Given the mental and physical condition Li Chunfu was left in after nearly 18 months in police custody, we urge the international human rights community to immediately begin an investigation into the extreme abuse that Li Chunfu, Li Heping, Jiang Tianyong, Wang Quanzhang, and others targeted in the 709 arrests have suffered. — The Editors Continue reading
Chinese Rights Lawyer Li Chunfu Mentally Disturbed and Physically Ruined After Abuse in Custody已关闭评论
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Tagged 709, detention, Lawyer, Li Chunfu, Li Heping, mental disturbance, Torture
CHN 001 / 0117 / OBS 002
Enforced disappearance /
Arbitrary and incommunicado detention /
Judicial harassment
China
January 9, 2017
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in China. Continue reading
China: Incommunicado detention of human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged detention, FIDH, incommunicado, Jiang Tianyong, OMCT
Peter Dahlin spent 23 days in a ‘black prison’ in Beijing, where he says he was deprived of sleep and questioned with a ‘communication enhancement’ machine. Here he tells the story of his incarceration and expulsion from the People’s Republic
by Tom Phillips in Chiang Mai Continue reading
A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping’s new China已关闭评论
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Tagged civil society, confession, detention, NGO, Peter Dahlin, Tom Phillips