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Guo Feixiong is a finalist for the 2015 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk

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“We didn’t break the law in any way. We made no mistakes. We were simply and sincerely trying to push forward China’s democracy. This is a very persuasive argument.”

Guo Feixiong is the pen name of Yang Maodong, a well known figure in China’s rights defence movement who has previously spent five years in prison for his human rights activities. Continue reading

Guozhen Xiao:Activist Guo Feixiong Held 743 Days Without Yard Time

China Change, published: August 21, 2015

We believe that this is a deliberate effort to harm Guo Feixiong and kill him slowly.

(Subtitles provided by @WLYeung and @awfan )

Chinese democracy activist Guo Feixiong (郭飞雄, also known by his original name, Yang Maodong 杨茂东) has now been held in Guangzhou’s Tianhe Detention Center for 743 days since his detention on August 8, 2013, Continue reading

Finalists for the 2015 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk

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On Wednesday 04 March the Jury for the 2015 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk announced the 5 finalists for this year’s Award, all of whom are either in jail, Continue reading

Xiao Shu:Guo Feixiong, a Civil Rights Hero

Published: January 8, 2015

A verdict awaits the pioneer of China’s rights movement after he stood trial the second time last November. Veteran commentator Xiao Shu, writing originally in the New York Continue reading

China Activists Tried for ‘Disturbing Order’

8EDAF97B-C047-4F8B-A49B-1D9B2465E01B_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy4_cw0FILE – Zhang Qing, left, wife of Chinese human rights activist Guo Feixiong, and daughter Yang Tianjiao speak at a press conference before a hearing of a House Foreign Affairs Committee subcommittee in Washington, D.C., October 29,

Last updated on: November 28, 2014 6:29 AM

Two Chinese human rights activists are standing trial Friday on Continue reading

Activist for media freedom standing trial in China

By DIDI TANG

Nov. 28, 2014 8:31 AM EST

BEIJING (AP) — A leading rights activist who organized rallies for media freedom pleaded not guilty to charges of disturbing public order in a Chinese court where he went on trial Friday more than 15 months after being detained. Continue reading

Two Prominent Chinese Activists Set for Trial on Public Order Charges

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Photo courtesy of Guo Feixiong

Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou will try two prominent rights activists on Friday Continue reading

China detains writer Tie Liu for ‘provoking trouble’

PLA soldiers stand guard at a metro station as visitors arrive at the site of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai on 20 April 2010.Chinese authorities said they detained Mr Huang for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”

Chinese writer Huang Zerong, also known as Tie Liu, has been detained by police allegedly for writing articles critical of a senior official.

Police arrested Mr Huang, 81, at his Beijing home early on Sunday morning.

Mr Huang’s wife was later told he had been detained for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.

She said he had written online articles which criticised Communist Party propaganda chief Liu Yunshan for restrictions of press freedom.

She told the Associated Press that her husband’s medical carer had also been detained on the same charge, with no reason given as to why.

The South China Morning Post reported that Mr Huang served 23 years in prison when he was in his twenties for being a “rightist” during Mao Zedong’s crackdown on liberals.

The Communist Party eventually cleared his name in 1980.

Picture of Yang Maodong, also known as Guo Feixiong, presented at a hearing of a House Foreign Affairs Committee subcommittee in Washington, DC, on October 29, 2013.Activist Yang Maodong, also known as Guo Feixiong, is currently detained for allegedly disturbing public order
In this 7 April 2010 file photo, Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer, gestures during an interview at a tea house in Beijing, China.Human rights lawyer and dissident Gao Zhisheng allegedly suffered abuse while in jail

Widespread crackdown

Mr Huang’s arrest comes a week after a court in Guangzhou postponed the trial of prominent human rights activist Yang Maodong after he instructed his lawyers to boycott proceedings.

Mr Yang, who is also known by his pen-name Guo Feixiang, has claimed that the trial is illegal and improper. He is accused of disturbing public order.

Chinese authorities have mounted a widespread crackdown on dissenters in recent years.

Dozens of activists and government critics are said to have been targeted, with many detained, and some prosecuted on broad public order charges.

Last month, well-known Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng was released having allegedly suffering physical and psychological abuse in jail.

BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29204874