In a statement today at a press conference in Washington, D.C., Yu Jie (余杰), dissident writer and former vice president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center who left China a week ago, recounts his torture by state security police after he was kidnapped on December 9, 2010, the day before the award ceremony for Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize. Yu’s press statement, “Exposing CPC Tyranny and Running to the Free World: My Statement on Leaving China,” has been translated and released by Human Rights in China at Yu’s request.
2011, no. 4
Hong Kong & Mainland China: Building a Shared Future
Inside this issue:
HRIC Publications
Citizens’ Square
Featured Videos
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WORD ON THE STREET: "Xinhua: What are they selling?”
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WORD ON THE STREET: “Is Hong Kong the Tail that Wags the Dog?”
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HRIC Commentary: HRIC Senior Researcher He Qinglian on China's “Great External Propaganda” Campaign
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Guest Commentary: Activist Wan Yanhai on Jasmine Rallies and 1989
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HRIC Commentary: HRIC Senior Policy Advisor Gao Wenqian on "subversion" charges in advance of February 27 Jasmine Rallies
Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights: The Impact of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
An HRIC whitepaper that analyzes the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s framework for security and counter-terrorism and China’s key role and argues that the SCO’s counter-terrorism policies and practices contribute to supporting repressive regimes at the expense of national, regional, and global human rights.
Liu Xiaobo
on the institutional protection of human rights
“The day when dignity of the people is conceptually and legally established is the day that the human rights of our countrymen will gain institutional protections.”
From “Can It Be that the Chinese People Deserve Only ‘Party-Led Democracy’?” (2006)
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hrichina 《中国人权双周刊》第70期:滥用酷刑不是胡锦涛的救命稻草(余杰)t.co/3axOhDCJ 力短期内颇见效果,遭受暴力摧残之人,多半被迫沉默。然而,暴力的负面作用将一天天发酵。官方滥用暴力,必然刺激民间以暴力反弹,由此官民冲突愈演愈烈,中国和平转型的可能越来越低。

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hrichina 《中国人权双周刊》第70期:被当做恐怖分子押送到法庭的代理人(野靖环)t.co/73OvQEgn 中国铁通北京分公司根据北京公安部门的指示,擅自违反合同,中断了访民吴丽红的网络,吴将铁通公司告上法庭....

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hrichina 《中国人权双周刊》第70期:沙漠的童话——在法庭的最后陈述(陈卫)t.co/FivgJSMU 陈卫说:面对审判,我没有畏惧和仇恨。我对宪政民主的到来充满信心,我相信那不是少数人功劳和等待的结果,而是每一个公民都意识到这是自己的责任,并努力的结果。

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hrichina DNB: HK's China Policies Spur Clash with Mainland Cousins;默克爾訪華 打宗教自由牌; Chinese Lawyer Barred from Meeting with Merkel t.co/wy787Dn5

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hrichina 公民广场:山东黄杨村村民要求政府公开种植小麦补助款信息 t.co/OLPg03BK 山东省临清市尚店镇黄杨村农民就2009年种植小麦补贴款至今未全数到位,以及镇政府收缴农民信用社账号“一本通”抵扣灌溉水费等问题,要求镇、市、中央有关机构公开有关信息。








