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Apr 7 2011 10:03AM
A partial list of disappeared individuals under the Chinese regime (9 April 2011)

AiWeiwei (艾未未), artist, seized by police at Beijing’sCapital Airport and prevented from boarding a flight to Hong Kong on 3 April.Officials have yet to release any information about his whereabouts. Ai becomesthe most prominent victim...

Apr 7 2011 7:36AM
China Human Rights Briefing Weekly  March 31-April 5, 2011

Highlights With Disappearance of Ai Weiwei, Crackdown Continues to Escalate: On Sunday, artist and activist Ai Weiwei (艾未未) was seized by police at Beijing’s Capital Airport and prevented from boarding a flight to Hong Kong. Officials...

Apr 6 2011 11:26PM
**Launch of the inaugural International Day for Street Children on 12th April**

*Posted by Frances* for the Consortium for Street Children The International Day for Street Children: Louder Together is a campaign to give a louder voice to the millions of street children all around the world so their rights cannot...

Apr 6 2011 6:04PM
Goldstone: crying foul shouldnt derail justice

If a police investigator helped put together a big case file but later told a newspaper he'd altered some of his views on the investigation that would, I think, be unusual. But it wouldn't invalidate the original findings. This – the...

Apr 6 2011 11:25AM
Tasers so who polices the police?

This Taser campaign hasn’t been at all what I expected it to be. To recap, Tasers are fundamentally dangerous weapons, long known to Amnesty researchers as the tool of choice for torturers because of their ability to inflict intense...