Guangdong rights activist Su Changlan in an undated file photo. Photo courtesy of HRCChina.org
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have refused a request for medical parole made by the husband of a prominent women’s rights activist who voiced public support for the 2014 pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, amid growing fears for her health. Continue reading
Chinese Court Refuses Medical Parole For Women’s Rights Activist Held For Two Years已关闭评论
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Tagged court, Guangdong, inciting sunversion, medical parole, Su Changlan
Guangdong rights activist Su Changlan in an undated file photo. Photo courtesy of HRCChina.org
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have extended the pretrial detention of a prominent women’s rights activist on subversion charges for a second time, her lawyers said. Continue reading
China Extends Pretrial Detention of Rights Activist Again已关闭评论
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Tagged Guangdong, Inciting Subversion, Su Changlan, trail
Guangdong rights activist Guo Feixiong in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of activists
Jailed Chinese rights activist Guo Feixiong has now been on hunger strike in Guangdong’s Yangchun prison for more than a month, sparking renewed fears for his deteriorating health, lawyers and relatives told RFA. Continue reading
Jailed Chinese Activist on Hunger Strike For More Than a Month已关闭评论
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Guangdong rights activist Guo Feixiong in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of activists
Jailed Chinese rights activist Guo Feixiong is on hunger strike in protest at ill-treatment at his prison in the southern province of Guangdong, his sister said on Friday. Continue reading
Chinese Rights Activist on Hunger Strike in Jail, Sister Says已关闭评论
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Tagged Guangdong, Guo Feixiong, hunger strike, prison, Yang Maodong
The entrance to Guangdong Shantou the country’s first museum of the Cultural Revolution is shown in this undated file photo. Network Graphics
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have apparently clamped down on the only museum dedicated to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 60 years after it was launched by late supreme leader Mao Zedong. Continue reading
Guangdong rights activist Su Changlan in an undated file photo. Photo courtesy of HRCChina.org
A court in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Thursday began the subversion trial of another rights activist who supported the 2014 pro-democracy movement in neighboring Hong Kong. Continue reading
Pro-Democracy Activist Stands Trial For Subversion in China’s Guangdong已关闭评论
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Tagged Foshan, Guangdong, Inciting Subversion, Su Changlan, trial
Guangzhou human rights lawyer Ge Yongxi is shown in an undated file photo. Photo courtesy of fellow rights lawyers
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong detained and questioned a prominent rights lawyer for several hours on Friday after he reposted a satirical image of China’s president, linking him to the Panama Papers. Continue reading
China Questions Rights Lawyer Who Retweeted Panama Papers Joke已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, Ge Yongxi, Guangdong, Panama Papers
A screen shot of a Tweet shows an edition of the Southern Metropolis Daily with headlines that when read together appear spell out an anti-propaganda message. RFA
An editor at a cutting-edge newspaper in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong was fired and another slapped with an official warning for “political problems” after a recent edition of the paper ran two coinciding headlines that spelled out an anti-propaganda message, sources told RFA. Continue reading
Chinese Editors Punished For ‘Political Mistakes’ Over Headline Acrostic已关闭评论
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Tagged dismissal, Guangdong, Liu Yuxia, Southern Metropolis Daily, Xi Jinping
