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Open letter requesting Supreme People’s Court immediately to open an investigation into the use of torture in the Chongqing anti-mafia campaign

Posted in Urgent Actions on August 23rd, 2010    1 Comment
The following is a translation of a public letter signed by a group of Chinese lawyers, activists, and writers concerned over allegations of torture in the Chongqing anti-mafia campaign. For the original text, in Chinese, please click here. Open letter ...read more>>

Sichuan Rights Defenders Convicted on Trumped-up “Fraud” Charges

Posted in Urgent Actions on August 20th, 2010    Comment
(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, August 20, 2010)- This afternoon, the Ziliujing District People’s Court in Zigong City, Sichuan Province convicted human rights defenders Liu Zhengyou (刘正有), Hu Yulan (胡玉兰), Ma Xingquan (马兴权), and Feng ...read more>>

China’s Highest Court Must Overturn Death Sentence Based on Confession Extracted by Torture

Posted in Urgent Actions on August 3rd, 2010    1 Comment
(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- August 3, 2010) Last week, following the transfer of Fan Qihang’s (樊奇杭) case to the Supreme People’s Court for a review of his death sentence, Zhu Mingyong (朱明勇), lawyer for the alleged Chongqing mob boss, made ...read more>>

A Public Letter by Chinese Citizens Urging the Release of Uyghur Journalist Hailaite Niyazi

Posted in Urgent Actions on July 30th, 2010    Comment
(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- July 30, 2010) A group of Chinese lawyers and scholars have made public an open  letter expressing concern about  the “criminalization of speech” in the case of Uyghur journalist Hailaite Niyazi, who was sentenced on ...read more>>

CHRD Protests Harsh and Unjust Sentence for Uyghur Journalist Hailaite Niyazi

Posted in Urgent Actions on July 23rd, 2010    2 Comments
CHRD Protests Harsh and Unjust Sentence for Uyghur Journalist Hailaite Niyazi (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- July 23, 2010) On July 23, a court in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) sentenced journalist Hailaite Niyazi (whose name also ...read more>>

Human Rights Defender Li Jinfang Summoned by Police, Home Raided and Property Confiscated

Posted in Urgent Actions on July 1st, 2010    1 Comment
(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, July 1, 2010) Fifteen police officers raided the Xianghe County, Hebei Province home of human rights defender Li Jinfang (李金芳) this afternoon, confiscating 74 items, including human rights-related documents, computer ...read more>>

Sichuan Democracy Activist Liu Xianbin Criminally Detained for “Inciting Subversion of State Power”

Posted in Urgent Actions on June 29th, 2010    Comment
(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- June 29, 2010) Little more than a year after he was released following a decade in prison, convicted of “subversion of state power” in 1999, Sichuan democracy activist Liu Xianbin (刘贤斌) has once again been criminally ...read more>>

Liaoning High People’s Court Must Overturn Death Sentence Given to Street Vendor Xia Junfeng, Victim of Official Violence

Posted in Urgent Actions on June 28th, 2010    2 Comments
(Chinese Human Rights Defenders- June 28, 2010) On June 29, the Liaoning Provincial High People’s Court (Liaoning HPC) will convene an open court session to hear the appeal of Xia Junfeng (夏俊峰), a street vendor in Shenyang City who was sentenced to ...read more>>

Tan Zuoren’s Harsh Sentence Upheld by Sichuan High Court

Posted in Urgent Actions on June 8th, 2010    Comment
Tan Zuoren’s Harsh Sentence Upheld by Sichuan High Court (Chinese Human Rights Defenders- June 9, 2010) The Sichuan Provincial High People’s Court announced this morning that it had upheld the judgment of activist and environmentalist Tan Zuoren ...read more>>

Tiananmen Anniversary Marked by Harassment, Detentions, and Official Silence

Posted in Urgent Actions on June 3rd, 2010    1 Comment
Tiananmen Anniversary Marked by Harassment, Detentions, and Official Silence (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, June 3, 2010) On the eve of the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, the Chinese government continues to refuse to openly and truthfully ...read more>>
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