Press Releases and Statements

2009-03-16

Labor Leader Yao Fuxin Is Released after Completing Seven-year Term

2009-03-12

Case Update: Beijing Intellectuals Yang Zili and Zhang Honghai Released after Eight Years in Prison

2009-03-11

Family of Missing Rights Defense Lawyer Gao Zhisheng Arrives in U.S.

2009-03-09

Guizhou Petitioner Ding Fayou Detained

2009-03-06

Beijing Lawyers Association Violates Its Own Rule in Removing Independent Candidates from Election of Representatives

2009-03-05

Chinese Authorities Tighten Grip on Rights Defenders during NPC and CPPCC Sessions

2009-02-26

In Open Letter, Tiananmen Mothers Urge China's Leaders to Investigate June 4

2009-02-23

Dissident Writer Interrogated for Publishing Critical Articles

2009-02-19

Beijing Law Firm Faces Six-Month Shutdown for Attorneys' Support of Direct Bar Election

2009-02-13

In Joint Letter, HRIC Urges Secretary of State Clinton to Make Human Rights Concerns a Priority in Trip to China

2009-02-13

Case Update: Elderly Activist Shuang Shuying Released; Reports Abuses in Prison

2009-02-11

China Rejects UN Recommendations for Substantive Reform to Advance Human Rights; HRIC Summary

2009-02-09

China's UN Human Rights Review: New Process, Old Politics, Weak Implementation Prospects

2009-02-08

Torture Account by Missing Rights Defense Lawyer Gao Zhisheng

2009-02-07

Implementation and Protection of Human Rights in the People's Republic of China

2009-02-02

More than 500 Chinese Lawyers Sign Petition against Colleague’s Jail Sentence

2009-02-02

Human Rights Lawyer in Arbitrary Detention

2009-01-13

Petitioner Mao Hengfeng Has Been Detained after November Release from Prison

2009-01-09

Chinese Authorities Continue to Suppress Charter 08; Number of Signers Exceeds 7,200

2008-12-17

Zeng Jinyan's Sakharov Prize Acceptance Speech on behalf of Hu Jia

2008-12-09

Independent Scholars Detained: Start of 2009 Crackdown?