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China to Prosecute Pu Zhiqiang for Activism

BEIJING — The Chinese authorities on Friday announced the formal arrest of a well-known rights defender who last month took part in a private seminar where participants discussed the army’s violent suppression of the student-led protests of 1989 in Tiananmen Square. Continue reading

China: Detention of human rights defenders following commemoration of 1989 Tiananmen Square protests


HRDs gathered on 3 May for seminar commemorating Tiananmen Crackdown (canyu.org)HRDs gathered on 3 May for seminar commemorating Tiananmen Crackdown (canyu.org)
On 4 and 5 May 2014 a number of human rights defenders in Beijing were taken in for Continue reading

PU ZHIQIANG:‘June Fourth’ Seventeen Years Later: How I Kept a Promise

08.10.06

The weekend of June 3, 2006, was the seventeenth anniversary of the Beijing massacre and also the first time I ever received a summons. It happened, as the police put it, Continue reading

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Arrested Chinese Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang Speaks from Prison

THE EDITORS 06.13.14

Early this morning, the Beijing Public Security Bureau formally arrested rights-defense lawyer Pu Zhiqiang on charges of picking quarrels and illegally Continue reading

China Arrests Rights Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang Who Fought Labor Camps

BEIJING June 13, 2014 (AP)

By GILLIAN WONG Associated Press

Just half a year ago, civil rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang was earning accolades in the Chinese media for his work pushing for the abolition of labor camps. On Friday, Pu made headlines again — Continue reading

[CHRD] University Student Criminally Detained for June Fourth Tweet (6/6-12/2014)

Jun 12, 2014 • 4:42 am

China Human Rights Briefing

June 6 – 12, 2014

Arbitrary Detention

Detained Human Rights Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang Denied Medical Bail
Freedom of Expression

University Student Criminally Detained for Tweet About June Fourth
Law & Policy Watch

Civil Society Members Call to Abolish Custody & Education System
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Harsh Sentence Feared for Detained Rights Lawyer

By AUSTIN RAMZY JUNE 12, 2014 4:58 AM

Pu Zhiqiang speaking to reporters outside Chongqing Higher People’s Court in December 2012.
Yongping Xu/European Pressphoto Agency
A lawyer who met with Pu Zhiqiang, a crusading human rights lawyer Continue reading