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“The government uses terrorism as an excuse or an argument so that foreign countries don't look into what is happening in Xinjiang,” Nicolas Becquelin, a Hong Kong-based researcher for Human Rights in China , told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Full Text
The campaign group Human Rights in China welcomed the agreement, calling it an "important and potentially constructive development." It also reported, however, that on the eve of Arbour's visit Beijing had acted "to silence or intimidate independent and critical Chinese voices and groups," by...
Death Penalty Labor Petitions and Protests Political Dissidents Religious Persecution
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has received a copy of an application for a trial supervision review filed on behalf of imprisoned dissident writer Shi Tao by his mother, Gao Qinsheng. Supported by a legal brief written by defense attorney Mo Shaoping, Gao is applying on the grounds of “serious...
La chronique de France-Tibet Le 19 Août 2005, l’ONG Human Rights in China (HRIC) a appris que Sun Xiaodi, ancien employé de la mine d’uranium de Gansu, a disparu après son arrestation par la police chinoise alors qu’il allait déposer une pétition à Pékin dénonçant les graves empoisonnements...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Chinese citizens have the right to make their complaints known via a national network of administrative offices. The organisation Human Rights in China said that the cyberdissident had criticised the system, which is in fact ineffective and had provided specific...
A day after the meeting, Sun was bundled into an unmarked car near Beijing's southern railway station and has not been heard from since, Human Rights in China (HRIC) said, citing numerous witnesses. Full Text
A day after the meeting, Sun was bundled into an unmarked car near Beijing's southern railway station and has not been heard from since, Human Rights in China (HRIC) said, citing numerous witnesses. Full Text
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that a Gansu uranium mine employee has been missing for 110 days after being detained by public security police following his attempts to petition officials over severe radiation poisoning affecting local residents.
Nicolas Becquelin is the spokesman for Human Rights in China . He says China's Communist Party wants to prevent any organization from challenging its hold on power. "The Chinese authorities are still very, very wary that this kind of development, this religion developing could take away more...
Nicolas Becquelin, Hong Kong-based research director for Human Rights in China , said there were many "political and institutional reasons" to establish such a force, ranging from the global war on terror to worries about increasing protests. "It is legitimate for China to have an anti-terror force...
"Uighurs are seen by Beijing as an ethno-nationalist threat to the Chinese state," said Sharon Hom, executive director of Human Rights in China . "As Islam is perceived as underpinning Uighur ethnic identity, China has taken draconian steps to smother Islam as a means of subordinating Uighur...
Human Rights in China said five petitioners, representing some 500 people from Yangguidian village in Hubei Province are under police surveillance after they tried to deliver documents about the pollution to officials in Beijing. The research director of Human Rights in China, Nicholas Becquelin,...
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that several activists protesting resettlement terms from the Three Gorges Dam project were prevented from petitioning the central government in Beijing, and that one activist has been seriously harassed since being interviewed by an American journalist in...
Five villagers representing the 500 residents of Yangguidian, a village in central Hubei province, were taken off a bus by about 40 police officers on Saturday as they tried to travel to Beijing, the New York-based group Human Rights in China said in a statement. Full Text
*The information contained in this summary is based on information collected by HRIC in July and is not intended as a complete list. Rather, it should be viewed as a representation of larger trends of dissent and repression in China. Death Penalty Labor Media Censorship
Sources in China previously reported to HRIC that on the evening of June 24, more than 30 petitioners had been attacked by dozens of police officers as they prepared to depart for Beijing from Shanghai’s west train station for the purpose of protesting against China’s revised regulations on...
"It's up to the Chinese government to make guests, including NGOs, feel welcome and safe. If they issue an invitation, we're happy to go," Ms Hom said. Ms Hom, the executive director of Human Rights in China , attended the European Union-China Human Rights seminar in Beijing on June 20-21. Full Text
New York-based Human Rights in China said officials from the northern Chinese province had held “coercive private meetings” with influential individuals to discredit a lawyer representing the investors. Full Text
Local officials' tactics ranged from character assassination -- showing scholars and professionals alleged "evidence" of a love affair between Zhu and an investors' sister -- to threats of retaliation, according to Human Rights in China (HRIC). Full Text
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that local officials in Shaanxi Province have been arranging coercive private meetings with prominent individuals to weaken public support for shareholders in the drawn-out Shaanxi oilfields controversy.
The Washington Post published a report on July 1 regarding an incident in which HRIC Executive Director Sharon Hom was harassed by Public Security officials while in Beijing for a seminar under the EU-China human rights dialogue. The full story is available on the Web site of the Washington Post .
Human Rights in China (HRIC) would like to respond to false allegations attributed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in an Associated Press (AP) story published on July 4.
ANSA U.S. human rights activist Sharon Hom said Chinese state security agents detained her for several hours and interrogated her in Beijing where she was attending the annual EU-China human rights dialogue. Hom, executive director for the New York-based Human Rights in China , said the incident...
Sharon Hom, the executive director of the New York-based rights group Human Rights in China , was detained in a Beijing hotel by security officers for five hours on June 21, according to a commentary written by her and published in the Asian Wall Street Journal on Friday. She was in the capital to...
Sharon Hom, executive director for the New York-based Human Rights in China , told Reuters late on Sunday night that security agents surrounded her outside her hotel room in Beijing, where she was attending the annual EU-China human rights dialogue. Full Text
Sharon Hom, the executive director of the New York-based rights group Human Rights in China , was detained for five hours in a Beijing hotel by security officers on June 21, according to a commentary written by her that was published in the Asian Wall Street Journal on Friday. She was in the...
The government's decision to allow Hom to participate in the seminar appeared at first to be a diplomatic breakthrough because she is executive director of Human Rights in China , a New York-based advocacy group that the governing Communist Party has repeatedly condemned. The Beijing government...
HRIC Executive Director Sharon Hom’s recent experience in Beijing shows that behind the story of China’s "economic miracle," the apparatus of state control remains firmly entrenched. Read her op-ed detailing the encounter and its lessons in the Asian Wall Street Journal : "Beijing Police Undermine...
In some ways, my presence in Beijing was an important breakthrough and perhaps a sign of greater openness on the part of some sections of the Chinese government. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs approved a visa for me to participate in a European Union-China Human Rights dialogue seminar. I was able...
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Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that Shanghai petitioners have issued an open letter on behalf of fellow petitioner Xu Zhengqing, who may soon be formally indicted on charges of "disturbing social order."
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that more than 30 petitioners from Shanghai were injured in clashes with police as they attempted to board a train for Beijing.
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that the words of a punk rock song are part of the evidence to be raised against dissident writer Zhang Lin when he is tried next week on charges of incitement to subvert state power.
An HRIC Field Survey 1 China’s reputation as the second most “wired” country in the world conceals the vast access gulf that exists between the urban elite and less advantaged groups. With more than 100 million users online, 2 China is now second only to the United States in the number of its...
IEEE Spectrum So far, the answer has been yes. China's Internet is the most efficiently censored in the world. From a computer in China, try to visit the Web site of the banned activist organization Human Rights in China , based in New York City, and your request will be blocked by filters in the...
*The information contained in this summary is based on information collected by HRIC in May and is not intended as a complete list. Rather, it should be viewed as a representation of larger trends of dissent and repression in China. Death Penalty Labor Media Censorship
"China cannot hope for a harmonious society until it achieves resolution on naging issues such as June 4th, which will remain a thorn in public consciousness until justice is served," the chairman of the New York-based Human Rights in China , Liu Qing, said in a statement. Full Text
Foreign rights groups, like the New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC), voiced support for the letter and urged the government to come to a more just conclusion to the massacre. Full Text
The call came in an open letter signed by more than 100 relatives of people killed or injured during the protest ahead of its 16th anniversary on June 4th, New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) said in a statement seen on Saturday. Full Text
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has received a copy of an open letter written by Ding Zilin and more than 100 other family members of those killed and injured in June 1989, calling for the Chinese government to recognize the same need for accountability and redress regarding June 4th as it is...
"The individual cases of injustice put a human face on the system and structural lack of protection for people's rights," said Sharon Hom, executive director of Human Rights in China . Full Text
Human Rights in China said in a statement that the 10-year sentence given to Chinese journalist Shi Tao showed Beijing's blatant disregard for free speech. Full Text
Shi Tao received his sentence late last month after a procedure that did not refelct well on the government led by President Hu Jintao, Human Rights in China said in a statement. Full Text
A statement Thursday by New York-based Human Rights in China says the conviction of freelance journalist Shi Tao has raised widespread concern about Beijing's suppression of free speech. Full Text
Shi Tao, 37, received his sentence late last month after a procedure that did not reflect well on the reign of President Hu Jintao, Human Rights in China said in a statement. Full Text
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has received copies of appeal documents written by dissident writer Shi Tao , who on April 30 was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of “illegally revealing state secrets abroad.” The documents, including an appeal petition dated May 4 and a defense statement...
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned from sources in China that 250 stall-holders in Hangzhou’s Cuiyuan night market face the loss of their livelihoods after officials issued a notice to close the market down.
Human Rights in China (HRIC) welcomes the comprehensive and concrete recommendations issued by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights following its review of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) government progress report. HRIC urges the PRC government to implement...
The case, made public months later by New York-based Human Rights in China , highlights this country's often hidden problem of child labor. The Chinese government officially forbids children under 16 from working, but critics say it does little to enforce the law. Full Text
This week, the group Human Rights in China reported the detentions of at least eight dissidents who had taken part in anti-Japanese protests, including Xu Wanping, who served eight years in prison for his role in the 1989 democracy movement... Full Text
The protestors took to the streets of Zigong, a city in Sichuan province, on April 20 to ask the new mayor for more money for the land they gave up, the New York-based Human Rights in China said in a news release. Full Text
Liu Zhengyou and four other peasant farmers were arrested and detained in Zigong city during a April 20 demonstration to appeal to the city's mayor for redress, the US- and Hong Kong-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) said. Full Text
The New York-based organisation Human Rights in China denounced on Tuesday the arrests of at least ten dissidents who took part in the April protests. AIDS activist Hu Jia, Xu Wangping from Chongqing and Li Guotao from Shanghai were among the arrested. Full Text
Kyodo News Off campus, police have detained "dissidents" in connection with the earlier demonstrations, according to the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights in China. The rights group named eight people detained, including Beijing AIDS activist Hu Jia and Xu Wanping, a former 1989 democracy...
The detentions reflect China's growing unease with the anti-Japanese sentiments, but may also simply be a convenient way of silencing critics of the regime, New York-based group Human Rights in China said. Full Text
New York-based group Human Rights in China said Tuesday that beijing had detained a number of political dissidents as a part of a widening crackdown on anti-Japanese protests. Full Text
Xu Wanping was taken from his home in the southwestern city of Chongqing on March 30 by police, who questioned him about his role in a signature campaign related to an anti-Japanese demonstration, Human Rights in China said in a statement. Full Text
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that Liu Zhengyou and four other representatives of landless peasants from Zigong City, Sichuan Province, were assaulted and detained while appealing to the city’s new mayor for redress on April 20.
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that a number of Chinese political dissidents have been detained for their participation in anti-Japanese protests.
Sources in China told Human Rights in China that hundreds of petitioners have been rounded up, detained and beaten in Beijing, Shanghai and northeastern China, the rights group said in a statement seen Saturday. Full Text
*The information contained in this summary is based on information collected by HRIC in April and is not intended as a complete list. Rather, it should be viewed as a representation of larger trends of dissent and repression in China.
The detentions came in advance of a new law that takes effect Sunday and bars officials from impeding petitioners, the New York-based Human Rights in China said. It said local authorities might have been trying to block grievances before the new restrictions take effect. Full Text
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has received reports of a nationwide crackdown against petitioners as the date approaches for implementation of China’s new petitions regulations, which coincides with the long holiday weekend marking Labor Day on May 1.
"Once you mount the tiger, it's hard to dismount," said Nicholas Becquelin, Hong Kong-based research director with Human Rights in China . "They made use of the nationalism but found it a little more difficult to contain than they expected once its usefulness was over." Full Text
"Once you mount the tiger, it's hard to dismount," Nicholas Becquelin, Hong Kong-based research director of Human Rights in China. "They made use of nationalism but found it a little more difficult to contain than they expected once its usefulness was over." Full Text
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned from sources in China that Beijing police forced the closure of a citizens’ rights center established by political activists Liu Jingsheng and Li Weiping .
Penned by Human Rights Watch and Human Rights in China , it outlined how China denies Uighurs religious freedom, and by extension freedom of association, assembly, and expression.
Energy Compass A joint report by Human Rights Watch and Human Rights in China says the post-Sept. 11 campaign against terrorism has given "Beijing the perfect excuse to crack down harder than ever in Xinjiang," a region that contains huge deposits of natural gas and oil, and is supplying the lion's...
The report by Human Rights Watch and Human Rights in China said there have been "vast increases" in the numbers of Muslim Uighurs imprisoned in Xinjiang for independent religious activity.

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