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According to the phone call from a friend of Liu Xia and late Liu Xiaobo on 30 April, Liu Xia said she is ready to die if she can ’ t leave China. A US diplomat told the media yesterday that Liu Xia ’ s movement and her right to leave...
Today marks the four anniversary of the death of Cao Shunli in state custody. It is essential and urgent that UK should adopt and enact Global Human Rights Accountability Bill. The bill will strive to guard against and prevent...
On 10 December 2017, over 100 activists gathered to mark # HumanRightsDay2017 at Chinese Embassy in London，calling for # FreePrisonersOfConscience # FreeLiuXia # FreeIlhamTohti # TashiWangchuk in cold and sleet weather. # 國際人權日2017...
Yang Tongyan (杨同彦, a.k.a. Yang Tianshui 杨天水), a freelance writer and democracy veteran, has died aged 56 on 7 November 2017. In the past 11 months, at least three prisoners of conscience and political prisnoers including Peng Ming and...
P rotesters will gather to mark International Human Rights Day 2017 at Chinese Embassy in London. Venue: opposite the Chinese Embassy, 49-59 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL Nearest tubes: Great Portland Street, Oxford Circus Date...
Ahead of Human Rights Day, there have been major trends in human rights violations in Mainland China and Hong Kong. This past autumn, Yang Tongyan (a.k.a. Yang Tianshui), a freelance writer and democracy veteran, died of brain cancer...
The Chinese Noble Laureate for Peace Liu Xiaobo（刘晓波） has been sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment, in his 8th year in prison he was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Prisoners of conscience have deliberately been tortured by...
Dear Members of Parliament, In October 2015, the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will make an official State Visit to Britain. We, the undersigned, are calling on the UK government to uphold human rights...
To: EU Parliament, UK government, USA government, International Olympic Committee Over a hundred lawyers and activists in China have been detained, disappeared or questioned from 10 July. Seven of them have formally and criminally been...
On 21 October 2017, participants gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy, marking 100 days after the passing of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia’s missing for 98 days, calling for an end to Liu Xia's illegal house arrest, surveillance and...
21 October 2017 marks 100 days after the passing of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia’s missing for 98 days. A demonstration to call for an end to Liu Xia's illegal house arrest, surveillance and harassment, demand immediate and unconditional...
30 August marks 49 days after the passing of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia’s missing for 47 days. On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, a demonstration to call for an end to Liu Xia's illegal house arrest...
London week 6 memorial for # LiuXiaobo # FreeLiuXia 伦敦六七悼念 # 刘晓波 # 自由刘霞
London in solidarity with prisoners of conscience in Hong Kong 倫敦聲援香港良心犯
London week 5 memorial for # LiuXiaobo # FreeLiuXia 伦敦五七悼念 # 刘晓波 # 自由刘霞 https://twitter.com/shaojiang/status/897939623904673794
A total of 100 interviews: sympathize (10), disapprove (0), Refuse to answer (69), Don't know (21) 伦敦唐人街华人微型民调 四七悼念 #刘晓波 #自由刘霞 反对 0，赞同 10，拒答 69，没听说 21，总计100
He’s cancered/murdered, she’s been disappeared, London will not keep silent. 他被病逝，她被失踪，伦敦不会沉默。#LiuXiaobo #FreeLiuXia 三七公祭 #刘晓波 #自由刘霞
A vigil to remember Liu Xiaobo, call for Liu Xia’s freedom, immediately and unconditionally all prisoners of conscience currently held in China; Venue: opposite the Chinese Embassy, 49-59 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL Nearest tubes...
August 2 will be the 21st day since the passing of Liu Xiaobo, the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to die in state custody since Nazi Germany. Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison for co-drafting and promoting Charter 08, a...
Please write to your MP and Prime Minister Theresa May, demanding that the Prime Minister and the Parliament of the UK urge China to release immediately and unconditionally the Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, and allow...
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).