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...

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...

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, 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...

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,...

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

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...

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

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.

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.

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, 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...

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...

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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.

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...

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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

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...

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

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

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) 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...

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

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

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...

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

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.

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 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

"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

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 .

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...