Highlights Fujian Village Chief Tried on Trumped-up Charges, Lawyer Harassed: In retaliation for his efforts to organize local villagers against unlawful land expropriation, officials in Fujian Province arrested village chief Lü...

13 September 2010 Amnesty International has urged the Chinese authorities to end the continued surveillance and harassment of a blind human rights activist, who has been kept under unofficial house arrest since he was released from...

Highlights Beijing Lawyer Tried Again by Railway Courts: This past week, Beijing lawyer Wang Yu (王宇) was tried for a second time for “intentional injury” by the Tianjin Railway Court after spending over a year in detention. Wang, who...

Highlights Villagers Detained over Election Protest: Nine residents of Raolefu Village, located on the outskirts of Beijing, have been detained for participating in a protest on July 27 over the alleged disruption of a village election...

Amnesty International warned today that proposed reforms of China’s applicationof the death penalty may not result in significantly fewer executions. Chinese government news agency Xinhua reported today that proposed amendmentsto China...

(ChineseHuman Rights Defenders, August 20,2010)- This afternoon, the Ziliujing District People’sCourt in Zigong City,Sichuan Province convicted human rights defenders Liu Zhengyou (刘正有), Hu Yulan (胡玉兰), Ma Xingquan (马兴权), and Feng...

Highlights Liu Xianbin Case on Verge of Transfer to Courts: CHRD learned this week from lawyer Ma Xiaopeng (马 小鹏) that the “inciting subversion of state power” case against Sichuan Province democracy activist and human rights defender...

Uighur journalist Hailaite Gheyret Niyaz was sentenced to 15 years in prison last week by the Chinese government, because he spoke to foreign journalists last year. A Public Letter by Citizens Urging the Release of Uyghur Journalist...

Highlights Authorities Move Forward with “Inciting Subversion” Case against Democracy Activist Liu Xianbin: In the past week, CHRD learned that the case against Sichuan democracy activist Liu Xianbin (刘贤斌) had been transferred to the...

(ChineseHuman Rights Defenders- August 3, 2010)Last week, following the transfer of Fan Qihang’s (樊奇杭)case to the Supreme People’s Court fora review of his death sentence, Zhu Mingyong (朱明勇),lawyer for the alleged Chongqing mobboss...

Partial List of Political Prisoners in PR China from the US Congressional-Executive Commission on P R China

Amnesty International has condemned the closed trial and conviction ofthree Uighur website managers on state security charges. Dilshat Perhat, web manager and owner of the Diyarim website wassentenced to five years by an Urumqi court...

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders-July 30, 2010) Agroup of Chinese lawyers and scholars have made public an open letter expressing concern about the“criminalization of speech” in the case ofUyghur journalist Hailaite Niyazi, who was...

Highlights Uyghur Journalist Hailaite Niyazi Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison: On July 23, a court in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region sentenced journalist Hailaite Niyazi to 15 years in prison for endangering state security...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CHRDProtestsHarsh and Unjust Sentence for Uyghur Journalist Hailaite Niyazi

Highlights Authorities Order Closure of Over 100 Influential Blogs: A number of well-known and widely-read scholars, lawyers, and activists had their blogs shut down simultaneously by managers at major internet portals on July 14...

Highlights Netizens Gather in Support as Sichuan Democracy Activist Liu Xianbin is Formally Arrested for “Inciting Subversion of State Power:” On July 5, Sichuan democracy activist and human rights activist Liu Xianbin (刘贤斌) was...

According to The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), the Chinese authorities arbitrarily detained and sentenced KarmaSamdrup and several members of his family.

IPI Board Member Warns of ‘Profound Harming of Press Freedom’

Highlights Police Raid Home of Human Rights Defender Li Jinfang; Interrogate Her and Daughter: Hebei police raided the home of human rights defender Li Jinfang (李金芳) on July 1, confiscating computer equipment, human rights-related...