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China Human Rights Briefing March 28-April 3, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention Activists Detained After Staging Protest Calling for Leaders to Disclose Wealth Elderly Petitioner Held in Black Jail for 3 Months Special Notice Citing...
China Cites “State Secrets” in Rejecting Civil Society Participation in Universal Periodic Review (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 2, 2013) – The Chinese government must stop harassing and persecuting activists for requesting to...
China Human Rights Briefing March 21-27, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention 20 Uyghurs Harshly Sentenced for “Inciting Splittism” Death Penalty Chinese NGO Publishes 2012 Report on Capital Punishment in China Special Notice CHRD Makes...
China Human Rights Briefing March 16-20, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention Three Tibetans Imprisoned for “Inciting Splittism” Fujian Petitioner Held Illegally in Government Building for Nearly 5 Months Freedom of Expression Shanghai...
China Human Rights Briefing March 18, 2013 Content Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment & Punishment Beijing Police Torture Activist Hu Jia During Interrogation, Restrict His Freedom & Access to Medical Care Special...
on Mar 15, 2013 (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, March 15, 2013) – With a major change of the guard at the top echelon of China’s one-party power, 2012 was marked by authorities’ intensified attempts to thwart human rights activism but...
on Mar 15, 2013 China Human Rights Briefing March 9-15, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention • Several Tibetan Monks, Singer Sentenced to Prison in Qinghai Reprisals Against Activists • Petitioners Formally Detained During “Sensitive”...
China Human Rights Briefing March 1-8, 2013 Contents Reprisals Against Activists Political Repression Envelopes China as People’s Congress Opens Police are rounding up and restricting the movement of Chinese activists as the annual...
China Human Rights Briefing February 22-28, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention Former Cops-Turned-Petitioners Seized in Beijing, Held in Black Jail Freedom of Peaceful Assembly & Association Protesting North Korean Nuclear Test...
China Human Rights Briefing February 16-21, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention Activist Who Assisted Petitioners in Beijing Given 15 Months of RTL Enforced Disappearance Shanghai Activist Held Incommunicado for Past Five Months Forced...
China Human Rights Briefing February 8-15, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention Uyghur Man Serving Previously Unreported 11-Year Sentence for “Inciting Splittism” Early Releases of Prominent RTL Detainees May Be Sign of Reform Enforced...
China Human Rights Briefing February 1-7, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention • Tibetans Harshly Sentenced as Courts Enforce Criminalization of Self-Immolation Protests Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment &...
Rule of Law Is Key to Ending All Forms of Extralegal Detention, Including Forced Labor － CHRD Responds to News of Suspension of RTL in Yunnan Province (Chinese Human Rights Defenders – February 6, 2013) – With a news report today that...
China Human Rights Briefing January 18-23, 2013 Reprisals Against Activists Shandong Petitioners Beaten, Detained After Appealing to China’s “First Lady” Over Grievances Six Shandong petitioners who recently appealed to China’s “first...
China Human Rights Briefing January 12-17, 2013 Contents Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment & Punishment Guizhou Activist Tortured During Lengthy Interrogation In Test Case to New Mental Health Law, Professor...
China Human Rights Briefing January 11, 2013 Freedom of Expression Reprisals Against Protestors Underway in Shadow of Southern Weekly Compromise With Propaganda Officials Police have rounded up protesters and other supporters of press...
China Human Rights Briefing January 4-10, 2013 Contents Enforced Disappearance • Revised Law Permitting Enforced Disappearance in Action: Activist Zhu Chengzhi Held Under “Residential Surveillance” in Unknown Location Freedom of...
China Human Rights Briefing December 28, 2012-January 3, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention • Policeman Gets 14-Year Prison Term for Participating in Pro-Democracy Activities Reprisals Against Activists • Justice Ministry Bars 1989...