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Recognizing Chinese Women Human Rights Defenders

Posted in Prisoners of Conscience, Urgent Actions on March 8th, 2010    Comment
Recognizing Chinese Women Human Rights Defenders (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, March 8, 2010) – While women make significant contributions to the promotion of human rights in China, their efforts are often overlooked. Many women human rights defenders ...read more>>

The Human Rights Activist Liu Xiaobo, Imprisoned in China, Deserves the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize

Posted in Prisoners of Conscience on February 3rd, 2010    Comment
On Christmas Day last year, one of China’s best-known human rights activists, the writer and university professor Liu Xiaobo, was condemned to 11 years in prison. Liu is one of the main drafters of Charter 08, a petition inspired by Czechoslovakia’s ...read more>>

Czech and Slovak MPs Nominate Chinese dissident for Nobel Peace prize

Posted in Prisoners of Conscience on February 3rd, 2010    Comment
Prague, Czech Republic – February 3, 2010 - Forty Czech and fifty Slovak MPs have nominated Liu Xiaobo - a prominent Chinese human rights activist, writer and university professor - for Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination was also endorsed by ex-president ...read more>>

Activist Huang Qi Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for “Illegal Possession of State Secrets”

Posted in Prisoners of Conscience, Urgent Actions on November 22nd, 2009    Comment
Activist Huang Qi Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for "Illegal Possession of State Secrets" (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, November 23, 2009) -Huang Qi (黄琦), prominent human rights activist and director of Tianwang Human Rights Center ...read more>>

Letter to President Obama Concerning His Upcoming China Trip

Posted in Prisoners of Conscience, Urgent Actions on November 10th, 2009    Comment
November 10, 2009 President Barack Obama The White House Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: We, members and affiliates of the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), a network of Chinese and international human rights activists and groups, ...read more>>

U.S. Congressmen Urge Obama to Raise the Cases of Tan Zuoren and Huang Qi with the Chinese Government

Posted in Prisoners of Conscience on November 6th, 2009    Comment
October 30, 2009 The Honorable Barack Obama President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama: During your upcoming visit to China, we respectfully request that you inquire with Chinese ...read more>>

Draft Resolution by U.S. Congressman David Wu in support for Huang Qi and Tan Zuoren

Posted in Prisoners of Conscience on November 6th, 2009    Comment
111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 877 Expressing support for Chinese human rights activists Huang Qi and Tan Zuoren for engaging in peaceful expression as they seek answers and justice for the parents whose children were killed in the Sichuan earthquake ...read more>>

Former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh Seeks to Observe Trial of Chinese Intellectual

Posted in Prisoners of Conscience on August 28th, 2009    Comment
(Editor's Note: CHRD has just obtained a copy of a letter by former U.S. Attorney General, Dick Thornburgh, to the President of the Supreme People’s Court of the PRC, seeking to observe trial of detained intellectual Liu Xiaobo. Mr. Thornburgh's letter is ...read more>>

Submission on Hu Jia to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Posted in Prisoners of Conscience on August 17th, 2009    Comment
To: The Working Group on arbitrary detention Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Office at Geneva, 8-14 avenue de la Paix 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Fax No. (022) 917.90.06 E-mail: urgent-action@ohchr.org QUESTIONNAIRE COMPLETED ...read more>>

Submission on Xie Changfa to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

Posted in Prisoners of Conscience on August 17th, 2009    Comment
To: The Working Group on arbitrary detention Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Office at Geneva, 8-14 avenue de la Paix 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Fax No. (022) 917.90.06 E-mail: urgent-action@ohchr.org QUESTIONNAIRE ...read more>>
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