Today's World Book Day celebrates and encourages reading. What will you pick up today? Some Shakespeare, a classic fairy tale such as Puss in Boots perhaps, or something weightier like Dostoyevsky’s Crime & Punishment ? For Guantánamo...

China Human Rights Briefing February 27-March 6, 2014 Contents Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment & Punishment Cao Shunli in Critical Condition After Emergency Medical Treatment Arbitrary Detention Activist...

A Nightmarish Year Under Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” 2013 Annual Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in China March 2014 PDF VERSION: http://chrdnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/FINAL-PDF_2013_CHRD-Repor…...

Huber Matos, who was Amnesty’s first Cuban prisoner of conscience, has died aged 95. Matos was a schoolteacher who became an army commander in the revolutionary forces fighting to overthrow the Batista government. However, he disagreed...

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, February 20, 2014) – CHRD is alarmed by reports that detained activist Cao Shunli (曹顺利) is in critical condition following denials and a long delay in treatment by authorities at Chaoyang District...