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“No” to a Google Search Engine with Chinese Characteristics—Not “Right Now” or Ever
In a Congressional hearing today, faced with questions from multiple members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee about Google’ s controversial Dragonfly Project—a search engine in development designed to meet the censorship requirements of the Chinese government—Google CEO Sundar Pichai...
December 11, 2018
Statement
On Google’s Reported Plan to Work with Chinese Censors
This week, international media reported with some alarm the news that Google is building a version of its search engine for mobile users in China that is designed to restrict information flow by filtering out search terms including human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest...
August 2, 2018
HRIC Commentary
Feng Zhenghu Applies For Open Government Information on Length of Restriction on his Travel
Activist Feng Zhenghu from Shanghai was denied departure from Pudong International Airport on October 5, 2015. The border police stated that his departure could potentially “harm national security,” allegedly in connection with the 709 Crackdown. In February of this year, when Feng was granted a...
April 16, 2017
Citizens' Square
Feng Zhenghu
Does Lou Jiwei’s Exit Audit Report Count as a “State Secret”?
In February 2016, 80-year-old Beijing resident Wang Xiuying applied to the National Audit Office for “Open Information on the Exit Audit Report of Finance Minister Lou Jiwei, legal representative of China Investment Corporation and Central Huijin Investment Company Ltd.” The National Audit Office...
October 14, 2016
Citizens' Square
Statement by Lawyers Tan Chenshou and Chen Jinxue on Jiang Tianyong’s Case
Since Beijing lawyer Jiang Tianyong’s disappearance on November 21, neither his family nor the defense lawyers appointed by his family have received any written notice regarding his status. Official media have carried out wanton smear campaigns against him, misleading public opinion. In response to...
December 16, 2016
Citizens' Square
Statement Concerning the Disappearance of Lawyer Jiang Tianyong for over Six days
Rights lawyer from Beijing, Jiang Tianyong, has been missing since November 21, 2016. In light of the enforced disappearance and torture he suffered previously because of his involvement in numerous public interest defense cases and legal actions, his wife Jin Bianling, together with four family...
November 27, 2016
Citizens' Square
Jiang Tianyong
Sister Says Guo Feixiong Will Not Stop Hunger Strike
In an account titled “Will Guo Feixiong Live Long Enough to Walk out of Prison?” (see HRIC translation and original Chinese account below), Guo’s sister, Yang Maoping ( 杨茂平 ) said that instead of letting her meet with Guo Feixiong ( 郭飞雄 ) (penname of Yang Maodong, ( 杨茂东 ) ) to deliver an appeal...
June 15, 2016
Case Update
Guo Feixiong
Prison Obstructs Sister’s Visit to Guo Feixiong and Wife’s Plea to Stop Hunger Strike
HRIC has learned from an informed source that prison authorities are deliberately obstructing a visit by the elder sister of imprisoned rights defender Guo Feixiong ( 郭飞雄 ) (penname of Yang Maodong , ( 杨茂东 ) ), who tried to deliver a letter from Guo’s wife, Zhang Qing ( 张青 ) , urging Guo to stop...
June 14, 2016
Case Update
Guo Feixiong
Zhang Qing’s Letter to Guo Feixiong Urging Him to Stop His Hunger Strike
杨茂东，你好！ 见字如面！ 我对你的情况有大致的了解。我非常理解在这种极端的处境下你的绝食抗争，同时我也非常担心你的身体，担心你的生命安危，因此我和孩子们出外为你做了一些呼吁，见了不同的人。 有很多老师们、朋友们让我转达他们对你的问候，大家都很关心你的身体状况，对你的绝食抗议表达理解。你的要求也很合理，因为发生在你身上的人权问题，其根源还是政治制度问题。在这种制度下，政治犯的待遇最差。改善关押的所有的政治犯的待遇，这一点当局是能够做得到的事。这已经是很低的要求。 如果当局对的处境有改善，你认为最基本的必须的关押条件有改善，请你综合各种情况，考虑停止绝食，以后再根据实际情况再作其他讨论。...
June 9, 2016
Citizens' Square
Guo Feixiong
On the Sixth Day of Yu Shiwen’s Hunger Strike, Wife Wishes He Would “Cherish His Life”
After learning that her husband, Yu Shiwen , Henan dissident and one of the “Ten Gentlemen of Zhengzhou,” was on a hunger strike to protest his prolonged pretrial detention ( two years since he was first detained in May 2014 ), Chen Wei circulated the below message online. Chen Wei wishes to tell...
May 3, 2016
Citizens' Square
Yu Shiwen

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