Letters from the Mainland

Letter from Ding Zilin to Mrs. Lois Snow

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:16:09 +0000

March 27, 2017

Letter from Ding Zilin to Mrs. Lois Snow

June Fourth

Ding Zilin, mother of Jiang Jielian, who was shot and killed, at age 17, on the night of June 3, 1989, is a founder of the Tiananmen Mothers group. Mrs. Lois Snow is the widow of the late Edgar Snow, American journalist and author of Red Star Over China (1937), widely regarded as one of the most...

Ding Zilin

On Election Day, the Ballot Box Is Delivered to My House, and Students Were Made to Vote in the Lobby

phb — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 19:16:04 +0000

December 23, 2016

On Election Day, the Ballot Box Is Delivered to My House, and Students Were Made to Vote in the Lobby

Citizens' Square

Letters from the Mainland

During the elections for deputies to the Jinan district and township level People's Congresses, Sun Wenguang, an independent candidate and retired professor of Shandong University, was imprisoned in his home for several days under round-the-clock watch by public security officers. In the article...

My "Feud" with Lawyer Jiang Tianyong

tw — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:03:11 +0000

November 30, 2016

My "Feud" with Lawyer Jiang Tianyong

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

When Jiang Tianyong first arrived in Beijing to work as a lawyer, he was in the same firm as Li Heping and Li Chunfu. Heping and Jiang Tianyong were from the same town, and had been classmates; Heping always called Jiang, “Old Jiang.” Sometimes when they disagreed they would argue; Heping would get...

709 Families and Supporters

A Few Words for My Friends

phb — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 16:41:02 +0000

October 27, 2016

A Few Words for My Friends

Citizens' Square

My friends, we have been out of touch for so long. In 2015, on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, September 27, my husband Jiang Peikun died suddenly from a heart attack at 2:53 in the afternoon. This sudden misfortune plunged me into an abyss. Jiang's funeral services were simple, in accordance...

Government Accountability

Ding Zilin

“Joint Statement from 709 Victims’ Families: Release Our Family Members, Refuse Attempts to Divide Us, Monitor the Trials, and Acquit the Detained Activists”

tw — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 20:22:49 +0000

August 1, 2016

“Joint Statement from 709 Victims’ Families: Release Our Family Members, Refuse Attempts to Divide Us, Monitor the Trials, and Acquit the Detained Activists”

Citizens' Square

Letters from the Mainland

In this statements, eight family members of lawyers detained in the “709” crackdown express strong concern about Wang Yu being threatened and pressured into doing a video “interview ” in which she criticized her former colleague, Zhou Shifeng, as not being a “proper” lawyer. The statement also...

Wang Yu