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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...
党国新一轮以“法治“的名义”紧箍”中国互联网 @cmphku Rule of law: a ring to bind China's internet http://bit.ly/VAt5vQ
China Human Rights Briefing December 21-27, 2012 Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment & Punishment Disabled Rural Worker Dies After Police Beating A disabled man looking for work in rural Hunan Province recently...
China Human Rights Briefing December 19-20, 2012 Contents Arbitrary Detention • Inner Mongolia Activist Sentenced for Revealing Government’s Illegal Land Grabs Freedom of Peaceful Assembly & Association • Authorities Pressured Hotel to...
China Human Rights Briefing December 14-18, 2012 Contents Harassment of Activists • Police Take Action Against Citizens Appealing for Justice on Human Rights Day Equal Rights • Uyghur Student Demands Explanation After Passport Denied...
China Human Rights Briefing December 11-13, 2012 Contents Arbitrary Detention • Hubei Activists Sent to Prison for Defending Land Rights Harassment of Activists • Hunan Police Makes Death Threat to Activist for Campaigning to Abolish...
To highlight cultural resistance in PR China and to coincide with Human Rights Day, Chinese, Uyghur & Tibetan Solidarity UK presented an evening of imprisoned voices and banned works from Tibet, East Turkestan and China. http://is.gd...
China Human Rights Briefing December 6-10, 2012 Contents Arbitrary Detention • Activists Sentenced Over Signature Campaign That Supported Political Reforms • Five People Sent to RTL for Questioning Police Investigation of Girl’s Death...
Today around one hundred protesters from Chinese, Uighur and Tibetan Solidarity UK gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in London to marks the 64th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Photos RFA in Chinese Press...
Chinese, Uyghur & Tibetan Solidarity UK Press Release for Human Rights Day, 10 December 2012 China’s new leadership urged to end tyranny and grant human rights, freedom and democracy to the people under its rule [10 December 2012] On...
(Chinese Human Rights Defenders – December 7, 2012) – Another international Human Rights Day is being marked in China by the Chinese government’s ongoing violations of human rights. Many Chinese prisoners of conscience languish in jail...
China Human Rights Briefing November 29-December 3, 2012 Contents Arbitrary Detention • Chen Kegui Gets 39-Month Sentence in Apparent Retaliation Against Chen Guangcheng • Petitioners Forcibly Held in Psychiatric Hospitals More Than 5...
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Shao Jiang, a former prisoner of conscience for his active role in the 1989 pro-democracy movement, is a committed activist-scholar, who lives and works in exile in London. The academic interests focus on politics and media, social movement, democratisation, feminism, law in PRC and Hong Kong, autonomy & sovereignty & self-determination, international human rights mechanisms, comparative studies on development models and political institutions, theory and practice of Civil Society. Publications include Citizen Publications in China before the Internet (Palgrave, 2015).