Civil Society

HRIC Urges Independent Observers at Upcoming Trials of Lawyers and Activists in China

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 20:03:33 +0000

August 5, 2016

HRIC Urges Independent Observers at Upcoming Trials of Lawyers and Activists in China

Access to Justice

This week, Chinese authorities put on trial and convicted one rights lawyer and three activists on charges of “subversion of state power”: Zhai Yanmin ( 翟岩民) , a law firm employee; Hu Shigen ( 胡石根) , a democracy and religious freedom activist; Zhou Shifeng (周世锋 ) , a lawyer and law firm director;...

Open Letter by Octogenarian Urging CPC to Register

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 22:01:46 +0000

June 23, 2016

Open Letter by Octogenarian Urging CPC to Register

China Rights Forum

Citizen Participation

Dear Mr. Xi Jinping: Hello! I am an old woman from Beijing, more than 80 years old. My name is Wang Xiuying. On the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party China (CPC), I would like to discuss the issue of the CPC’s legitimacy. As everyone knows, the CPC was established under the...

Notes of First Meeting with Labor Activist He Xiaobo in Detention

tw — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:19:11 +0000

June 7, 2016

Notes of First Meeting with Labor Activist He Xiaobo in Detention

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

He Xiaobo, Director of the Nanfeiyan Social Work Service Center—Guangdong, Foshan’s first non-profit organization providing assistance to workers—was criminally detained on December 4, 2015, by Foshan Municipal Public Security Bureau on suspicion of “misuse of one’s official position’” (职务侵占)...

NGOs Urge Kerry and Lew to Press China on Human Rights

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:50:08 +0000

June 2, 2016

NGOs Urge Kerry and Lew to Press China on Human Rights

Joint Statements

Civil Society

The Honorable John F. Kerry U.S. Department of State 2201 C St NW Washington, DC 20520 Via Fax: 2026472283; 2026477350 The Honorable Jacob J. Lew U.S. Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20220 Via Fax: 2026220073; 2022620417 Dear Secretary Kerry and Secretary Lew, As...

China’s New FNGO Law Seeks to Divide and Conquer China’s Civil Society

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 22:02:51 +0000

April 28, 2016

China’s New FNGO Law Seeks to Divide and Conquer China’s Civil Society

Statement

Civil Society

The Chinese legislature passed today a law, introduced in draft in April 2015, which had elicited widespread concerns among diverse sectors of the international community about its potential to undermine the role and contributions that foreign organizations make toward China’s growing civil society...

Letter of Complaint Sent to The Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China

tw — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:38:48 +0000

July 31, 2015

Letter of Complaint Sent to The Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

[Translation by Human Rights in China] See Chinese original . To: Supreme People’s Procuratorate Complainant: Yu Wensheng July 31, 2015 Complainant: Yu Wensheng, Male, Born November 11, 1967, Lawyer, From Beijing, Phone: 13910033651, Address: Room 712, No. 2 CRD Yinzuo, Shijingshan District,...

NGOs to Kerry and Lew: Raise Human Rights Concerns in Upcoming Dialogue with China

tw — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:06:26 +0000

June 19, 2015

NGOs to Kerry and Lew: Raise Human Rights Concerns in Upcoming Dialogue with China

Joint Statements

Bilateral Dialogue

In an open letter, Human Rights in China joins eight NGOs in urging Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew to clearly voice their concern, during the Strategic and Economic Dialogue next week, over human rights deterioration in China, and to stress that such...

Pu Zhiqiang

HRIC Law Note: Draft Law on Foreign NGOs Undermines Chinese Civil Society and China’s International Engagement

tw — Thu, 21 May 2015 18:02:56 +0000

May 5, 2015

HRIC Law Note: Draft Law on Foreign NGOs Undermines Chinese Civil Society and China’s International Engagement

HRIC Featured Legal Resources

Citizen Participation

On May 5, 2015, the Chinese government released for public comment the Foreign/ Overseas Non-Governmental Organizations Management Law of the People’s Republic of China (Draft) (Second Review Draft) (《境外非政府组织管理法（草案二次审议稿）全文》”FNGO draft law”). If enacted and implemented in its current form, both...

Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau’s written opinion recommending prosecution for Guo Yushan and He Zhengjun

tw — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:01:12 +0000

April 2, 2015

Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau’s written opinion recommending prosecution for Guo Yushan and He Zhengjun

Citizens' Square

Civil Society

Guo Yushan, founder of research group “Transition Institute” in Beijing, and administrative director of the same group, He Zhengjun, were detained respectively in October and November 2014. They were both arrested on January 3, 2015. Their cases were transferred to review and prosecution stage on...

Guo Yushan

Intensified Challenges for Civil Society in Year since Cao Shunli’s Death

tw — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:29:52 +0000

March 14, 2015

Intensified Challenges for Civil Society in Year since Cao Shunli’s Death

Statement

On the one-year anniversary of her death, Human Rights in China remembers and honors Cao Shunli ( 曹顺利) , a tireless advocate of government transparency and greater citizen participation in China’s human rights processes. Cao died in a Beijing hospital in March 2014 after six months in detention for...

Civil Society

Zhao Changqing

To Myself of September 28

tw — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:30:10 +0000

January 28, 2015

To Myself of September 28

China Rights Forum

Citizen Activism

[English Translation by HRIC] Dear Kitty Ho of September 28, If I told you how I’ve spent this past month and what I’ve heard, you would tell me I am a liar. . . . Ever since you were little, you’ve been scared of crowds and death. That was why you didn’t try to get into Admiralty in Central, but...

Hong Kongers Call for Democracy & Universal Suffrage, 2014

tw — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:43:47 +0000

Hong Kongers Call for Democracy & Universal Suffrage, 2014

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Hong Kongers Call for Universal Suffrage and Judicial Independence, June-July 2014 (videos & photos)

tw — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:21:30 +0000

Hong Kongers Call for Universal Suffrage and Judicial Independence, June-July 2014 (videos & photos)

Lawyers' March for Judicial Independence, June 27, 2014

A statement in the white paper requiring judges to be patriotic also prompted a strong reaction from Hong Kong’s legal community. On June 27, 2014, more than 1,000 Hong Kong lawyers—as many as 1,800 by some estimates—marched to protest what they saw as Beijing’s interference in Hong Kong’s judicial independence.

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From Stability Maintenance and Control to Wiping Out

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:01:50 +0000

July 25, 2014

From Stability Maintenance and Control to Wiping Out

China Rights Forum

Arbitrary Detention

[Translation by Human Rights in China] The ongoing nationwide crackdown of activists in China has brought bad news every day. Within three weeks, more than 60 intellectuals and rights defenders have been detained. Among them are rights protection lawyers Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强), Liu Shihui (刘士辉), Tang...

Hou Xin

Can Lawyers Build a Legal Complex for the Rule of Law in China?

tw — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:58:56 +0000

July 25, 2014

Can Lawyers Build a Legal Complex for the Rule of Law in China?

China Rights Forum

Civil Society

Weiquan— rights defense—lawyering had two defining characteristics prior to the 2010-2011 crackdown on lawyers and civil society activists. First, weiquan lawyers were high-profile in their style of lawyering and did not shy away from political issues. They courageously accepted cases that other...