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2012-12-29

Lawyers Beaten During Attempt to Visit Black Jail

HRIC Bulletin
2013-05-13

HRIC has learned from various sources that on May 13, 2013, seven lawyers were severely beaten by police officers in Ziyang City, Sichuan Province, when they attempted to visit Ziyang Legal Education Center (资阳市法制教育中心), the largest black jail in Sichuan.

Activist Detained on Suspicion of “Inciting Subversion of State Power” after Calling for Disclosure of Officials’ Assets

Case Update
2013-05-09

Sources told Human Rights in China that rights activist Liu Ping (刘萍) has been criminally detained on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power.” Authorities have denied a request by Liu’s lawyer to meet with his client.

Former Judge, Released After 11 Years' Imprisonment for “Subversion,” Appeals for Help

Case Update
2013-05-01

Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that on April 2, 2013, Li Jianfeng (李建峰), a former presiding judge in the Economic Department of Ningde Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Fujian Province, was released after serving more than 11 years in prison on conviction of “subversion of state power” and “illegal possession of firearms.” He had been sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment but received a five-year sentence reduction for performing extra labor in prison.

Criminally Detained: Zhao Changqing and Six Other Advocates of Public Disclosure of Officials’ Assets

2013-04-19

Human Rights in China has learned that Chinese authorities have placed seven activists under criminal detention on charges of “illegal assembly.” These individuals, including long-time activist Zhao Changqing (赵常青) and Beijing lawyer Ding Jiaxi (丁家喜), have called for public disclosure of government officials' assets.

Police End Protest in Support of 10-Year-Old’s Right to Attend School

Case Update
2013-04-17

On April 16, police took away some 20 lawyers and rights defenders in Hefei, Anhui Province, who were protesting the removal of a10-year-old from a local school she was attending. Sources told Human Rights in China that the action was organized by the Ministry of State Security, as opposed to local Hefei police. 

Documentary Depicts Horrors in Juvenile RTL Camp in Late 1950s

2013-04-12

According to a review essay by Ai Xiaoming (艾晓明), a professor at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou and a rights activist, a newly completed documentary film by Xie Yihui (谢贻卉 )  reveals that 4,000-5,000 minors, boys and girls, suffered inhuman treatment when they were interned in a Sichuan Reeducation-Through Labor camp in the late 1950s and early 1960s. All were made to do manual labor and suffer protracted starvation. As many as 12 children died in a single day.

Click here for the documentary trailer.

Rights Defense Lawyer Detained After Court Appearance

HRIC Bulletin
2013-04-04

On April 4, 2013, a judge at the Jingjiang City People’s Court, Jiangsu Province, put a Beijing rights defense lawyer, Wang Quanzhang (王全璋), under a 10-day judicial detention for “serious violations of court procedure.”  Wang is currently being held at the Jingjiang Detention Center.

Activist and Ten-year-old Daughter Illegally Detained before Forcible Removal from Hefei

Case Update
2013-03-01

Human Rights in China has learned that at approximately 3:30 p.m. on February 27, 2013, four unidentified men in Hefei, Anhui Province, took Zhang Anni (张安妮), the ten-year-old daughter of long-time rights activist, Zhang Lin (张林), from her school and detained her in a police precinct in the Hupo district of the city.

Tiananmen Mothers Appeal for Legal Resolution of June Fourth Issue

2013-02-27

In an open letter to China’s legislature and political advisory body to demand a just resolution of the June Fourth crackdown on the Democracy Movement of 1989, the Tiananmen Mothers stress that “the only feasible way to solve the June Fourth issue is through legislative and judicial procedures.”