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Mar 1 2013 12:40PM
[CHRD] Prominent Chinese Citizens Call for Government to Ratify ICCPR

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...

Feb 22 2013 8:57AM
[CHRB] Self-Immolation of Tibetans and in Jiangxi Province; Shanghai Activist Held Incommunicado for 5 Months, and more

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...

Feb 15 2013 10:30AM
[CHRB] Uyghur Man Gets 11 Years for “Inciting Splittism”; Disappeared Tibetan Scholar May Be Serving 20-Year Sentence, and more

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...

Feb 10 2013 11:49AM
Chinese Authorities Criminalize Tibetans for "Inciting" Self-Immolations, and more

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 &...

Feb 10 2013 11:47AM
[CHRD] Rule of Law Is Key to Ending All Forms of Extralegal Detention, Including Forced Labor

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...

Jan 26 2013 9:40PM
[CHRD] Shandong Petitioners Beaten, Detained After Appealing to China’s “First Lady”

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...

Jan 18 2013 12:57PM
Professor Forcibly Committed to Psychiatric Hospital Vows to Sue Under New Mental Health Law

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...

Jan 11 2013 9:22AM
[CHRD] Police Retaliate Against Protesters as Southern Weekly & Propaganda Officials Reach Apparent Compromise

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...

Jan 11 2013 7:23AM
[CHRD] Revised Law in Action: Activist Subjected to Enforced Disappearance; Xinjiang Court Sentences Seven for Religious Activit

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...

Jan 3 2013 9:27AM
[CHRD] Police Gets 14 Years for Pro-Democracy Activities; Three Commit Suicide in Protest Over Evictions, and more

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...

Dec 27 2012 9:33AM
“Rule of law”: a ring to bind China's internet

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

Dec 27 2012 8:51AM
Disabled Rural Worker Reportedly Beaten to Death by Police

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...

Dec 21 2012 12:25PM
[CHRD] Activist Sentenced for Exposing Land Rights Abuses; NGO Sues After Being Forced to Cancel Conference

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...

Dec 18 2012 10:36AM
Police Take Action Against Citizens on Human Rights Day; Uyghur Student Demands Explanation Over Denied Passport

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...

Dec 14 2012 10:29AM
[CHRD] Hubei Activists Sentenced for Defending Land Rights; Elections Report Documents Abuses Against Independent Candidates, et

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...

Dec 13 2012 6:53PM
Voices of Freedom

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...

Dec 12 2012 6:19AM
Police Raid Home of Activist Feng Zhengfu; Authorities Try to Silence Professor by Locking Him Up in Psychiatric Hospital, more

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...

Dec 10 2012 11:47PM
Human Rights Day 2012 London

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...

Dec 9 2012 11:54PM
Press Release for Human Rights Day, 10 December 2012

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...

Dec 7 2012 11:21AM
Human Rights Day 2012: Free Liu Xiaobo!

(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...

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