Resources on Xu Zhiyong

(Excerpt otherwise noted, all items are in English.)

By Xu Zhiyong

• CH: “Admonition to Resign” (February 2020)
• “A Free Soul Imprisoned”—Citizen Xu Zhiyong’s Statement for Second-Instance Trial (April 2014)
• “For Freedom, Justice, and Love”—Xu Zhiyong’s Final Statement at Trial (January 2014)
• The Last Ten Years (May 2013)
• CH: Activists Call for the Immediate Release of Advocates for Public Disclosure of Officials' Assets (April 2013)
• CH: “Fighting Corruption is Not a Crime: Please Support the Anti-Corruption Warriors” (April 2013)
• “China Needs a New Citizens Movement” (July 2012)

About Xu Zhiyong

• Citizens Movement Advocates Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi Indicted for Subversion on Scant, Slanderous ‘Evidence,’ China Change (September 2021)
• A Tribute to Xu Zhiyong: Rights Advocate and Public Intellectual, Human Rights in China (contains background information on Xu and a chronology of his activism) (June 2020)
• “If I lose my freedom”—Xu Zhiyong in My Memory, Xiao Guozhen (February 2014)

HRIC Press Releases

• Four Years for New Citizens Movement Advocate Xu Zhiyong (January 2014)
• Xu Zhiyong Trial Ends without Verdict, Foreign Journalists Attacked (January 2014)
• HRIC Urges China to Release Rights Activists to Show Human Rights Commitment (November 2013)
• Video: Xu Zhiyong Speaks from Detention Center (August 2013)
• Lawyer Meets with Xu Zhiyong (July 2013)
• Joint Appeal for Unconditional Release of Xu Zhiyong and Other Asset Transparency Advocates (July 2013)
• Xu Zhiyong’s Lawyer Accuses Police and Detention Center of Rights Violations (July 2013)
• Xu Zhiyong’s Lawyer Liu Weiguo in Custody, Rights Group is Shut Down (July 2013)
• Xu Zhiyong, Advocate of Disclosure of Official Assets, Criminally Detained (July 2013)
• Gongmeng Officially Shut Down, Founder Formally Arrested (August 2009)
• Xu Zhiyong in Custody Seven Days; Still No Official Explanation (August 2009)
• Law Research Center Is Shut Down as Authorities Tighten Control on Civil Society Groups (July 2009)

HRIC Special Features

• Citizen Activists on Trial January 2014
• Citizen Activists on Trial 2013-2014: Schedule/Status and Essays

Xu Zhiyong’s Case Documents

• Indictment of Citizens Movement Advocate Xu Zhiyong — A Full Translation, China Change (2021)
• Xu Zhiyong’s First-Instance Verdict (English translation) (January 2014)
• CH: Lawyers’ Request for Open Court Hearing for Xu Zhiyong’s Second Instance Trial (March 2014)
• Xu Zhiyong’s Indictment (December 2013)