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I Am Not a "Subverter of State Power"
Shi Minglei (施明磊), the wife of Cheng Yuan (程渊), who has been in custody for his public interest advocacy, tweeted today that as a result of her continuous fight, the Changsha Municipal Bureau of State Security finally lifted her residential surveillance that had lasted nearly six months, and...
January 15, 2020
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Bank Account Frozen, Complaints Going Nowhere, Difficulty in Getting By: An Account by Cheng Yuan's wife, Shi Minglei, Who is “Under Suspicion of Subversion of State Power”
Shi Minglei, wife of the arrested public interest activist Cheng Yuan, has been put under residential surveillance for 50 days already, on suspicion of “subversion of state power.” Without presenting any evidence, to date, to support their criminal allegations against Shi, the authorities have...
September 10, 2019
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Brother of Cheng Yuan, Detained Changsha Legal Advocate, was Summoned with a Blank Summons
In a September 2, 2019 Twitter post titled, " Being Summoned for the Second Time ,"* Cheng Hao, the brother of detained Changsha activist Cheng Yuan, provides an account of his being summoned again by the Zhonghuamen police station in Nanjing. According to his account, three police officers came to...
September 2, 2019
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Private Chat on WeChat Is Criminalized——An Appeal by the wife of Li Huaiqing, a private entrepreneur in Chongqing
The case of Li Huaiqing, a private entrepreneur in Chongqing who is suspected of “inciting subversion of state power,” will be tried on August 22. After a year and eight months of silence, Li’s wife, Bao Yan, made her first public appeal, directed at relevant government departments: Don't sit back...
August 19, 2019
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Statement by Cheng Hao, brother of Cheng Yuan, about his interrogation by police
On August 12, Cheng Hao, brother of Cheng Yuan, the detained Changsha legal advocate, posted a statement (see below) on Twitter about his interrogation by the police of Zhonghuamen police station in Nanjing on August 8, on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” (寻衅滋事). Cheng Hao was...
August 12, 2019
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Complaint Filed by Wife of Cheng Yuan, One of Three Detained Changsha Rights Activists
On July 22, 2019, Cheng Yuan, Liu Yongze and Xiao Wu, three public interest law advocates of Changsha Funeng Organization, were seized by Changsha Municipal Bureau of State Security on suspicion of “subversion of state power” and have been detained in its detention center. Shi Minglei, Cheng Yuan’s...
August 3, 2019
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Wang Yi’s Case Submitted to Procuratorate with Additional Charge of "Illegal Business Activity"
On July 17, Lawyer Zhang Peihong ( 张培鸿 ) went to the Chengdu Detention Center to apply to visit his client Wang Yi ( 王怡 ), pastor at the Early Rain Covenant Church. Zhang was told to go see the officers at the Chengdu Procuratorate. There, he learned that investigation of Wang Yi’s case was...
July 17, 2019
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“We’ll strike you dead in one blow”: Jiang Tianyong Threatened by Domestic Security
Jin Bianling (金变玲), wife of human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong (江天勇) ,says in a Twitter post that in recent days, Jiang Tianyong’s family has suffered sharply increased monitoring and harassment by domestic security personnel from the Luoshan County Public Security Bureau, in Xinyang City, Henan...
April 4, 2019
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Jiang Tianyong
Four Sichuan Dissidents in the “Remembering June Fourth" Case Will Be Tried in Court Consecutively Starting Tomorrow
Liu Tianyan (刘天艳) , wife of dissident Fu Hailu (符海陆) —who is accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” for creating a wine bottle label in 2016 to mark the anniversary of June Fourth—posted this essay one day before his trial. She points out that Fu had in fact already been imprisoned for...
March 31, 2019
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Mother of Huang Qi Injured by Police, Put Under House Arrest
According to a source inside China, since the Two Congresses started, Pu Wenqing (蒲文清) , the 86-year-old mother of Huang Qi (黄琦) , the detained veteran rights defender and the founder of 64 Tianwang website (64tianwang.com), has been under round-the-clock monitoring by security personnel. She has...
March 11, 2019
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Huang Qi

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