China Human Rights Briefing October 25-November 2, 2012 Contents Arbitrary Detention Cao Haibo, Founder of Online Democracy Discussion Group, Sentenced to 8 Years for “Subversion” Enforced Disappearance Shanghai Petitioner-Activist Out...

Yesterday amongst the voting for a new president, Senate seats and the House of Representatives, Californians had an opportunity to remove the death penalty from the state’s statute books. There are over 700 death row inmates In...

Please read the following article - published yesterday by the Sunday Mail - about a new film which exposes how plantation workers in Cameroon suffer dreadful working conditions and poverty wages to provide cheap bananas for European...

Exiled freelance writer Li Jianhong (pen-name ‘Xiao Qiao’) longs to return home. As a new generation of leaders take charge of China’s Communist Party she is not optimistic for change. I used to expose government corruption as a...

‘Mama’s tears are heartbreaking…563 days were hard…5 years a nightmare’ – Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb’s daughter responds to him receiving a five year sentence on appeal In early 2011, as peaceful protests spread across Bahrain, Jalila...