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(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 26, 2010) – In its Annual Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in China (2009) , released today, Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) findsthatthe environment for human rights...
Chinese human rights defenderMao Hengfeng is at risk of being tortured or otherwise ill-treated in policecustody. She is believed to be held incommunicado in Yangpu District policedetention centre in the port city of Shanghai. She is a...
Amnesty International 21 april 2010 Escalating harassment of Chinese lawyers as they carry out their work is seriously undermining the rule of law, and risks further lowering public trust in the Chinese legal system. Two prominent...
18-year-old Noor-Ul-IslamSherbaz was sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 April 2010, followingdemonstrations and subsequent violence in western China in July 2009. Histrial was unfair and his confession may have been extracted under...
Local officials aim tosterilize 9559 people by 26 April, some against their will, in a driveto meet family planning targets in Puning City, Guangdong Province, southernChina. According to reports in theChinese media, on 7 April the...
The death toll from an earthquake in Tibetan area last week reached 1,944 today according to official statistics. HighPeaks Pure Earth has translated a blogpost originally written in Chinese by a Tibetan blogger calling themselves "The...
(ChineseHuman Rights Defenders- April 16, 2010) Fujianactivists Fan Yanqiong (范燕琼),Wu Huaying (吴华英),and You Jingyou (游精佑)were convicted of "slander" today forposting articles and video online urging government officials...
Highlights Home of Activist Gu Chuan Raided: Police interrogated Beijing human rights activist Gu Chuan (古川) for seven hours on April 9. While he was in detention, another group of officers raided his home, seizing computers, personal...
(ChineseHuman Rights Defenders- April 9, 2010)Plainclothes police officers seized writer and human rights activist GuChuan (古川)as he left his Beijing home this morning, taking him in for seven hoursofinterrogation. While Gu was being...
Human Rights defender Hu Jia, handcuffed and shackled in legchains, was barely able to move when his mother visited him in a prisonhospital in Beijing in the end of this March. Doctors discovered a growth on Hu’s liver last month. Hu...
Highlights CHRD’s website still inaccessible, temporary website also attacked: CHRD’s Chinese-language website, www.crd-net.org , remains inaccessible following directed denial of service (DDoS) attacks which began on March 25. On...
Highlights CHRD Website Hacked on Heels of Google, Go Daddy Statements : CHRD’s Chinese-language website, www.crd-net.org , was targeted for the second time this year by a series of directed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These...
Highlights Surprising those who were expecting a verdict to be issued, the Mawei District Court in Fuzhou sent the case against rights activists Fan Yanqiong (范燕琼), Wu Huaying (吴华英), and You Jingyou (游精佑) back to the procuratorate for...
Contents FreedomofAssembly Police in Hong Kong Arrest Members of HK Alliance over December Protest for Liu Xiaobo Police Interfere with Meeting on Forced Eviction in Hangzhou ArbitraryDetention Mawei District Court to Announce Verdict...
(ChineseHuman Rights Defenders- March 11, 2010) OnMarch 10, Beijing police interrogated human rights defender Xie Qiang (谢强)for the second time in as many weeks. Ninedays earlier, on March 1, police raided his home, seizing computers...
Highlights Harassment of Sensitive Individuals Continues as Government Meetings Begin: CHRD has documented 60 cases of individuals around the country who have been harassed, detained, or subjected to restrictions on their movement by...
(Chinese Human Rights Defenders,March 8, 2010) – Whilewomen make significant contributions to the promotion of human rightsin China,their efforts are often overlooked. Many women human rights defenders(HRDs) aregrassroots activists...
London commemorated the 51st anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising : News and More Photos:
Headlines Sichuan Democracy Activist She Wanbao to Be Released after Lengthy Prison Terms Chongqing Family Continue Quest for Justice following Son’s Suspicious Death in Prison Beijing Police Summon Activist Chen Tianshi after...
Headlines Jilin Government Website Details Targeting of Political Publications during “Anti-Pornography” Campaign Hubei Teachers’ Organizer Released from RTL, Compensated after 3 Months of Detention Hunger Strike by Death Row Inmates...