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
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Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
Tagged Campaign, FreeThe20, Gao Yu, Liu Xia, Samantha Power, Wang Yu
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW AUGUST 7, 2015 7:45 AM August 7, 2015 7:45 am
The journalist Gao Yu, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in April for leaking state secrets abroad, is receiving good medical care compared with that provided to most Chinese prisoners, her lawyers said on Friday.
Gao Yu, in a photo from June 9, 2012, is serving a seven-year prison term for allegedly leaking state secrets.Credit Kin Cheung/Associated Press
But the results of a physical examination in mid-July were worrying, said Shang Baojun, one of her two lawyers, in a telephone interview. They showed that Ms. Gao, 71, has cardiovascular problems including high blood pressure.
The day after receiving the results on July 28, Continue reading
Gao Yu, Jailed Chinese Journalist, Is Said to Be Receiving Good Medical Care已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, Journalist
2015-08-06
A file photo of Gao Yu speaking in Hong Kong.
AFP
Human rights and press freedom groups on Thursday called on Beijing to release veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who is currently serving a jail term for “leaking state secrets,” amid fears that her health may be rapidly deteriorating.
Gao, 71, currently suffers from chronic heart pain, Continue reading
Human Rights, Press Freedom Groups Call For Release of Jailed Chinese Journalist已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, Journalist
2015-07-29
A file photo of Gao Yu speaking in Hong Kong.
AFP
Fears are growing over the health of veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who is serving a seven-year jail term for “revealing state secrets,” following a recent medical check-up and amid continuing political pressure on her in prison.
Gao, 71, was sentenced by the Beijing No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court in April Continue reading
Fears Grow For Gao Yu Amid Huge Political Pressure已关闭评论
Posted in Press Freedom
April 30, 2015
Washington DC, USA
We, the delegates to the Tenth Interethnic/Interfaith Leadership Conference, held from April 26 to 30, 2015 in Washington, DC with the theme of “Building A Free Democratic Homeland with Citizen Power: Prospects and Pathways,” recalled recent human rights and democratic movements in each of our communities, and looked ahead at the challenges and opportunities facing all of us.
Despite the worsening human rights conditions and the grim prospects for an immediate democratic transition in our homelands, we are encouraged by the unremitting Continue reading
Declaration of Unity of the Tenth Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conference已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, Liu Xiaobo
April 15, 2015
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
HO PIN: Gao Yu’s Real Crime已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Yu
By Humanitarian China and China Change, published: April 26, 2015
Humanitarian China will match your donation, as it did in the Ilham Tohti drive, and send twice as much as it receives to the family of Gao Yu.
Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who served a seven-yearss prison sentence for disclosing “state secrets”, addresses a press conference in Hong Kong, 05 February 2007. International PEN held a meeting 2-5 February 2007 of writers from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan along with writers from other countries to discuss literature and free expression. AFP PHOTO/MIKE CLARKE
A file photo of Chinese journalist Gao Yu speaking at a press conference in Hong Kong. AFP via RFA http://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/baotong/detention-03302015110907.html
On April 17, Beijing Municipal Third Intermediary People’s Court sentenced 71-year-old independent Chinese Continue reading
A Joint Donation Drive for Gao Yu已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Press Freedom
Tagged Gao Yu
2015-04-20
Policemen take the identity of journalists before sentencing of Chinese journalist Gao Yu, April 17, 2015.
AFP
Beijing police are keeping the family of jailed veteran political journalist Gao Yu under close surveillance and tightening security in the Chinese capital, Continue reading
Gao Yu’s Family Under Surveillance Amid Security Clampdown in Beijing已关闭评论
Posted in June 4th Commemoration, Press Freedom
Tagged Gao Yu, state secrets
