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Photos June Fourth 2012 in London
On Monday the 4th of June, 8pm-10pm, protestors will gather outside the Chinese Embassy in London to hold a candlelight vigil commemorating victims of the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. Protestors will read out the names of known victims...
On the eve of the 23rd anniversary of the Chinese military’s violent suppression of peaceful demonstrators in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Amnesty International again calls on the government to hold an open and independent...
(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, June 1, 2012) – For more than two decades, the Chinese government has pursued a policy of denial and silence regarding the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre: discussion of the massacre is systematically censored...
China Human Rights Briefing By CHRD May 23-28, 2012 Top News • Chen Guangcheng’s Relatives, Family Supporters in Tough Straits: Chen Guangfu, Chen Guangcheng’s brother tortured by Shandong police in April, recently fled Dongshigu...
Activist Feng Zhenghu's Illegal House Arrest Proves No Lessons Learned From Chen Guangcheng Abuses (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, May 24, 2012) – Two months before Chen Guangcheng (陈光诚) dramatically escaped from illegal house arrest...
China Human Rights Briefing: Special Edition May 22, 2012 Lawyers for Chen Kegui Challenge Local Police’s Unlawful Obstruction of Efforts to Defend Client CHRD has obtained a letter addressed to the police chief of the Yinan County...
China Human Rights Briefing: Special Edition May 16, 2012 Shandong Police Torture Chen Guangfu, Brother of Chen Guangcheng; Relatives Live in Fear CHRD has learned that Chen Guangfu (陈光福), the elder brother of activist Chen Guangcheng...
Top News • Harassment Rampant Against Individuals With Ties to Chen Guangcheng: The nephew of Chen Guangcheng has confirmed to be formally arrested, and lawyers, activists, and others are facing unabated harassment and rights abuses...
Top News • Concerns Abound Even After Chen Guangcheng Deal Struck:While the Chinese government has promised to allow the activist Chen Guangcheng and his family to go to the United States, concerns still exist for their future safety...
China Human Rights Briefing April 24-May 3, 2012 Top News • Chen Guangcheng Arrangement Uncertain, Concerns Swirl Over Family’s Safety: Conditions negotiated by US and Chinese officials for activist and lawyer Chen Guangcheng and his...
CHRD Calls on US and Chinese Leaders to Keep Promise to Protect Chen and Family (CHRD, May 3, 2012) -- On the basis of a promise from the Chinese government to protect blind activist Chen Guangcheng ( 陈光 诚 ), US diplomats hastily...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 2 May 2012 Chen: US pressure key as China shows ‘bad faith’ Promises to Chen Guangcheng that he can live a normal life if he remains in China must be viewed with extreme caution, Amnesty...
Chen Guangcheng 陈光诚 flees house arrest, expressing fear of "extreme retaliation" against family members. please also pay attention to He Peirong (何培蓉 aka 珍珠） @pearlher,Guo Yushan (郭玉闪 ), who have disappeared http://is.gd/XLcK2b, http:/...
Top News Authorities Deem Netizen’s Case “Secret,” Block Lawyers’ Visit: Guangzhou police recently blocked lawyers from seeing detained netizen Ou Ronggui,claiming his case “involves secrets,” and threatened Ou’s sister to drop the...
Here are three video clips from the panel discussion held on 15 April, the eve of the London Book Fair, where independent scholars warned LBF2012 of being used by the party-state of the PRC as one of the latest outlets for...
In order to give the voice to those imprisoned or banned in the PRC, we staged guerrilla poetry protests throughout the London Book Fair. The last reading session took place at the Literary Cafe, kindly provided by the English PEN.
伦敦书展的防火墙 The Great Banner-Wall of China at # LBF12 http://is.gd/Vas4JF @ BritishCouncil @ LondonBookFair @ ReedExhibitions
伦敦书展第3天，读诗抗议 Poetry Protest # LBF12 http://is.gd/P1j8gW @ BritishCouncil @ LondonBookFair @ ReedExhibitions
Top News Petitioner reported rape by interceptor, police refuse to investigate:in one of the most egregious cases of violence against petitioners, Zhu Guiqin from Liaoning Province reported to CHRD that she was raped by a man...
About me
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).