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On the Political Rallies in Solidarity with Southern Weekly
In this brief article (Chinese only), veteran Guangdong-based rights defender Guo Feixiong (郭飞雄) summarizes the points he made in support of Southern Weekly during interviews and exchanges with other participates made at a rally before Southern Weekly Guangzhou offices. The significance of the...
January 9, 2013
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Guo Feixiong
Complaint by Lawyers on Qin Yongmin’s Enforced Disappearance
In this complaint submitted to the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the lawyers Xiao and Guo say that the CPC’s 18th Congress has ended but Wuhan dissident Qin Yongmin is still missing. They accuse the Qingshan District Public Security Bureau in Wuhan of illegally restricting Qin Yongmin’s personal...
December 4, 2012
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Qin Yongmin
I Was Illegally Detained for Eight Hours on December 1, 2012
Veteran rights defender Guo Feixiong says that in order to prevent him from going to a legal seminar where friends of his were attending, Guangzhou police detained him for eight hours on trumped-up charges, including “selling fake alcohol” and “disturbing public order.” Guo says that he has been...
December 2, 2012
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Guo Feixiong
Chinese Petitioner Ye Mingfeng Return to China from Thailand
Fujianese petitioner Ye Mingfeng (叶明锋) appeals (Chinese only) for international attention as he fears retaliation from Chinese authorities after being extradited from Thailand to China. Ye had fled to to Thailand to escape Reeducation-Through-Labor, but was arrested about three months ago. He...
November 29, 2012
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Ye Mingfeng
Two Articles by Shanghainese Activist Feng Zhenghu, Now in 9th month of Illegal House Arrest
Shanghainese rights defender Feng Zhenghu (冯正虎) has been confined to his home by 24 guards since February 27, 2012. He estimates that by October 30, those guards had cost the authorities some 2.4 million yuan [about $600,000]. Feng’s house arrest began in advance of the “Two Sessions” of the...
October 30, 2012
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Feng Zhenghu
Open Letters and other documents by former police officers prevented from protesting in Beijing
Dozens of former police officers from many provinces who are victims of miscarriage of justices arrived in Beijing in recent days for a planned protest in the capital. By October 23, nearly 20 of them were detained and sent back to their home cities. Among them were He Zuhua, from Henan Province,...
October 26, 2012
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He Zuhua
“My House Arrest Begins Again”
In this message , Xu Yonghai, a member of the Divine Love Fellowship of the Beijing Christian House Church, recounts a visit by the police who told him not to leave home in advance of and during the 18th Party Congress beginning Nov. 8.
October 24, 2012
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Xu Yonghai
Urgent Appeals from Detained Hunan Lawyer and His Family; Letter from His Law Firm to Changsha Municipal Bureau of Justice and Lawyers Association
In this appeal ( Chinese only ), Cai Ying (蔡瑛) states that he is being held in a place that the Yuanjiang Municipal Commission for Discipline and Inspection of Hunan Province uses to detain and interrogate people in the name of “residential surveillance.” Cai, a lawyer with the Xiangjun Law Firm in...
October 20, 2012
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Cai Ying
Open letter to UN in Support of Proposal for International Constitutional Court
[International Constitutional Court] The open letter supports Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki’s proposal—which he articulated in his address to the UN General Assembly on September 27, 2012—to establish an International Constitutional Court to examine whether constitutions of various governments...
October 8, 2012
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Defending One Person’s Freedom is to Defend the Freedom for All: To all Signers of the “Support Chen Pingfu and Oppose Criminalization of Speech” Campaign
The authors state that the campaign, which began in early September, has garnered 1,059 signatures, and that the campaign continues a 63-year battle waged by the people of China for freedom of expression. Chen is a laid-off teacher in Lanzhou, Gansu Province. He was tried for “inciting subversion...
October 4, 2012
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Chen Pingfu

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