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Highlights Sixth Arrest Related to “Jasmine Crackdown” Reported; Returned Lawyer Alleges Torture: CHRD learned this week that prominent activist Wang Lihong (王荔蕻) has been formally arrested by officials in Beijing. Wang, the sixth...
Ai Weiweiand all those have been detained, arrested, or ‘disappeared’ by the Chineseregime since February. The list also includes Tibetan prisoners of consciencedetained since 2008 and Uighur prisoners of consciencedetained since 2009...
(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 26, 2011) The two-day U.S.-China human rights dialogue will convene tomorrow in Beijing, despite worries by human rights activists about the hazards of repeating an exercise which allows both...
Highlights Activist Ni Yulan Becomes Latest Victim of “Jasmine” Crackdown: CHRD learned this week that housing rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) has been criminally detained in Beijing for “creating a disturbance.” CHRD...
Highlights “Jasmine” Crackdown Continues as Veteran Activist Zhu Yufu is Arrested: Pro-democracy activist Zhu Yufu (朱虞夫) was formally arrested this week for “inciting subversion of state power” by officials in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang...
FormerLawyer, Handicapped from Torture, is CriminallyDetained (Chinese Human RightsDefenders, April 14, 2011)Housing rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) has been criminallydetained in Beijing for “creatinga disturbance,”...
On Saturday 9 April, London-based artists, writers andactivists spread a thousand of posters of 'Free Ai Weiwei' at Tate Modern on the artist's installation of a billion of sunflower seeds. Later, they invited 50 volunteers to read out...
London-based artists and activists look for AiWeiwei and all those disappeared by the Chinese regime Time: Saturday 9 April, 2pm Venue: on the lawn outside the river side entranceof Tate Modern A group of London-based artists and...
AiWeiwei (艾未未), artist, seized by police at Beijing’sCapital Airport and prevented from boarding a flight to Hong Kong on 3 April.Officials have yet to release any information about his whereabouts. Ai becomesthe most prominent victim...
Highlights With Disappearance of Ai Weiwei, Crackdown Continues to Escalate: On Sunday, artist and activist Ai Weiwei (艾未未) was seized by police at Beijing’s Capital Airport and prevented from boarding a flight to Hong Kong. Officials...
The Chinese government is waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation of lawyers, to stop them defending the dozens of activists and political critics rounded up by the authorities in the last two months. Since an anonymous online...
Ding Fangguan (known as Gu Chuan), 30, a writer and human rights activist, was detained on 19 February. He has been held incommunicado since. He is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. His wife Li Xinai, 28, and their two...
Highlights Harsh 10-Year Sentence Handed Down to Sichuan Activist Liu Xianbin: On March 25, the Suining City Intermediate Court in Sichuan Province convicted activist Liu Xianbin (刘贤斌) of “inciting subversion of state power” and...