A Chinese citizen holds a placard showing support for rights lawyer Shu Xiangxin outside the Licheng District People’s Court in Jinan, eastern China’s Shandong province, Jan. 8, 2016. Photo courtesy of a rights activist
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong on Friday handed a six-month jail term to detained rights lawyer Shu Xiangxin, whose lawyers say he was tortured while in custody at a police-run detention center. Continue reading
China Jails Tortured Rights Lawyer For Six Months Amid Protests已关闭评论
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© AFP / by Tom Hancock | Li Wenzu tells her three-year old son his daddy is on a “business trip”
TIANJIN (CHINA) (AFP) -Every day Li Wenzu’s son asks her why his daddy has not come home, she says. Her husband went missing six months ago in a sweeping crackdown on Chinese human rights lawyers, but she tells the three-year-old he is on a “business trip”. Continue reading
Anguish for families of missing China lawyers已关闭评论
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Rights lawyers like Pu Zhiqiang (front right, in May 3, 2014 photo) are an endangered species in China. Photo courtesy of China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD).
Several dozen prominent rights lawyers and activists have canceled a conference on the prevention of torture in the southwestern Chinese region of Guangxi after police intervention and surveillance, participants told RFA on Friday. Continue reading
Chinese Police Ban Anti-Torture Conference by Rights Lawyers已关闭评论
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Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in Beijing in this July 20, 2012 picture. © 2012 Reuters
(New York) – Chinese authorities should drop all charges against prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang and free him immediately. Pu is on trial before the Beijing Number 2 Intermediate People’s Court for alleged crimes of “inciting ethnic hatred” and “creating a disturbance” for seven microblog, or “Weibo,” posts that he published online between July 2011 and May 2014. Continue reading
China: Free Prominent Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang已关闭评论
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BJ 2d Br Proc Crim Indict (2015) No. 48
Defendant Pu Zhiqiang, male, born January 17, 1965, identification number [redacted], Han ethnicity, from Hebei Province, master’s degree education, is a lawyer at the Beijing Huayi Law Firm and resides at [redacted] in Beijing. Placed under criminal detention by the Haidian Precinct of the Beijing Public Security Bureau on May 6, 2014, under suspicion of provoking a serious disturbance. With the approval of this procuratorate, arrested by the Beijing Public Security Bureau on June 13, 2014, under suspicion of illegally obtaining citizens’ personal information and provoking a serious disturbance. Continue reading
Pu Zhiqiang’s Indictment and the Seven Incriminating Weibo Posts已关闭评论
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Investigative journalists in China have always had to bow to censorship and worry about being arrested. But this year, the Communist party has stopped them from working altogether
Malcolm Moore By Malcolm Moore, Beijing7:00AM BST 17 Jul 2014
For years a journalist who I shall call Mr Chen has run the investigation unit of one of China’s most daring newspapers. Continue reading
Advice for journalists in China: Hire a lawyer已关闭评论
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