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Citizen Coalition Calls for Unconditional Release of Zhao Changqing and Ding Jiaxi
In a statement on the criminal detention of rights defender Zhao Changqing ( 赵常青 ) and lawyer Ding Jiaxi ( 丁家喜 ) in Beijing, the Alliance of Chinese Citizens for Rights Defense pointed out that such actions by the authorities would only lead to further unrest in an already unstable society, and...
April 18, 2013
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Zhao Changqing
Activists Call for the Immediate Release of Advocates for Public Disclosure of Officials' Assets
In an open letter on the criminal detention of at least seven individuals who have been calling on government officials to publicly disclose their assets, Xu Zhiyong ( 许志永 ) and nine other lawyers, media workers and entrepreneurs urge the authorities to protect the rights of citizens to freedom of...
April 18, 2013
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Xu Zhiyong
Eyewitness Account of Lawyer Being Beaten Outside Courthouse
Four Beijing rights defense lawyers—Cheng Hai (程海), Liang Xiaojun (梁小军), Wang Quanzhang (王全章), and Han Zhiguang (韩志广)—had planned to appear in a hearing for 13 Falun Gong practitioners being charged in a Dalian Court, Liaoning Province, on April 12.
April 13, 2013
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Cheng Hai
Review of "Juvenile Laborers Confined in Dabao," a documentary
Ai Xiaoming ( 艾晓明 ) , a professor at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou and a rights activist, calls this newly completed documentary film by Xie Yihui ( 谢贻卉) of “extraordinary significance.” The film follows the investigation by journalist Zeng Boyan ( 曾伯炎) , a former Sichuan Daily reporter, to a...
April 12, 2013
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"Walking Out of Masanjia"
This is an in-depth investigative report on torture and violence at Masanjia Women’s Reeducation-Through-Labor Facility in Liaoning. The exposé has caused a stir in China and prompted urgent calls by the public to abolish this administrative detention system. The article in Lens Magazine has since...
April 7, 2013
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“Vagina Is Roaring: on the Notorious Masanjia Women’s RTL Facility”
In light of the recent exposé of torture and violence at the Masanjia Women’s Reeducation-Through-Labor Facility, Ai Xiaoming, professor at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou and a noted rights activist, compares the atrocities in Masanjia to those committed in Nazi Germany during the Second World...
April 10, 2013
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Legal Documents of Tianxiagong Suit against Suzhou Motai Hotel
Tianxiagong, an anti-discrimination NGO based in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, had planned to host a seminar for public interest lawyers in Suzhou and signed a contract with the Suzhou Motai hotel (苏州莫泰酒店管理有限公司) to reserve Motai facilities for the seminar. When Motai refused to honor the reservation...
March 1, 2013
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"The Dead Stay Young" - Mourning Lin Zhao in 2013
In this article , Ai Xiaoming’s provides a portrait of Lin Zhao, a Peking University student who was killed during the Cultural Revolution for criticizing the “tyranny” of the Chinese Communists, and discusses Lin Zhao’s articles, poems, and portions of her prison writings. Ai believes that Lin's...
April 3, 2013
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Public Memorial for June Fourth Victims in Advance of the Qing Ming Festival
On April 1, 2013, in advance of the Qing Ming Festival, a group of independent intellectuals and participants in the 1989 Democracy Movement gathered in a funeral home in Zhengding County, Hebei Province, to pay respect to the victims of the government’s military crackdown on the Democracy Movement...
April 1, 2013
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“Fighting Corruption is Not a Crime: Please Support the Anti-Corruption Warriors”
In this article , legal scholar and human rights activist Xu Zhiyong and others show their support for the four Beijing citizens including, Hou Xin, who were criminally detained on March 31, 2013, after they displayed banners and publicly called for disclosure of official assets in Xidan, downtown...
April 3, 2013
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Xu Zhiyong

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