A recent report by the Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners provides the details of the deaths of at least five children ranging in age from eight months to 17 years who have died as a result of persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual group in China.

Mark Magnier "...'Human rights groups looking at China are definitely riding this wave,' said Nicolas Becquelin, Hong Kong-based research director with Human Rights in China , a New York-based civic group. 'Human rights is the barometer of a healthy political system, and we see this global event as...

"...But the comments by the French leader, who arrived in China on Friday for an official visit, provoked a stinging response from Human Rights in China (HRIC) in a statement yesterday..." Full Article

"...According to the New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) report, Mao Hengfeng was fired from her job a Shanghai soap factory in 1988, after becoming pregnant with her second child, in contravention of China’s one-child policy. Her managers at the factory tried to force her to have an...

David J. Lynch "...In the 1990s, up to 2 million Han settled in sparsely populated Xinjiang, says Nicolas Becquelin, a Xinjiang expert with Human Rights in China . That shift is akin to a surge of more than 30 million people into the USA..." Full Article

Peasants Resist Developers, Local Officials By Edward Cody

Tim Johnson "...At the time of his arrest, Zhao was preparing to join a hunger strike for the release of a peasant detained for fighting a massive relocation scheme in Hebei province, according to Human Rights in China , a New York-based advocacy group..." Full Article

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*The information contained in this summary is based on reports collected by HRIC and cannot be regarded as comprehensive. Rather, it should be viewed as an indication of larger trends of repression, reform and dissent in China. Media Censorship: Internet Activists/Journalists/Web sites Petitions...

David J. Lynch "...Amid a crackdown on alleged terrorist groups that accelerated after the Sept. 11 attacks, Beijing appears firmly in command of its sometimes restive Muslim northwest. "Chinese authorities have the situation pretty much in hand. The degree of control in Xinjiang is at its highest...

Los Angelas,CA,USA "... members included Orville Schell, dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism; Sharon Hom, executive director of Human Rights in China ; and Robert ..." Full Article

Joe McDonald "...Last week, New York-based Human Rights in China said Beijing police have detained more than 36,000 people who have traveled to the capital from all over the country to petition the government over their grievances about local corruption, police abuses or various other issues..."...

David Lynch "...Following the attack, 60 villagers went to the Fujian province's Public Security Bureau to file a complaint. They also penned an open letter to authorities in Beijing seeking an investigation. Human Rights in China , a New York-based group, released an account of the dispute on Aug...

Matt Pottinger "...In a statement yesterday, New York-based Human Rights in China cited petitioners who said they were beaten, prodded with electric wands and held in a stadium before being shipped out of Beijing. The group said police from the northeastern city of Benxi drugged the food they...

In the lead up to the meeting of the Central Party Committee of the 16th Party Congress, Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that Yan Zhengxue , a well-known artist and dissident has been secretly detained by police from the State Security Department. According to HRIC sources, at 2:35 in the...

"...More than 380 people, including police and thugs recently released from labor camps, used bulldozers to flatten three homes and cut off the water supply as a warning to Wanli village in Fujian Province, New York-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) said..." Full Article

September 12, 2004 Los Angeles Times Evelyn Iritani "... After Deng's death in 1997, Human Rights in China , a New York-based group run by Chinese exiles, issued a critical statement that said, 'Mr. Deng's vision for China was 'to get rich is glorious,' but this glory never extended to human...

September 10, 2004 Voice of America Luis Ramirez "...Nicolas Becquelin is with the Human Rights in China group in Hong Kong. 'It is basically periodical clean-up campaigns, and I say 'clean-up' because that's [what] the security apparatus calls them officially,' said Mr. Becquelin. 'It has a lot to...

Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that police and officials have once again brought in convicted criminals to suppress protests by peasants of Wanli Village in Cangshan Town, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. The peasants of Wanli Village have been engaged in an extended protest against...

"Chinese police and hired “thugs” in the southeastern province of Fujian assaulted a group of peasants in a dispute over a factory, a human rights group said. Peasants staging a sit-in protest against government seizure of a village factory were attacked on August 1 by more than 100 police officers...

Mark Magnier "Authorities arrest a Buddhist leader after allowing his U.S.-based followers to arrange a $3-million renovation of the 800-year-old shrine..." "... 'The central problem is that the state has the power to define and vet religion, and it uses this,' said Nicholas Becquelin, Hong Kong-...

"BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese police said they had "indisputable evidence" that Hong Kong democrat Alex Ho slept with a prostitute and denied he was beaten to extract a confession..." "...His family and New York-based Human Rights in China said the charges were false and his detention was linked to a...

Heda Bayron "...The United States is protesting China's treatment of a Chinese-born university professor who was detained for two weeks on espionage charges. U.S. embassy officials are calling last month's detention harsh and inappropriate..." "...Nicholas Bequelin, research director of Human...

... example of the corruption and injustice that has become endemic in China’s rural areas," said Liu Qing, president of New York-based Human Rights in China . Full Article

July 30, 2004 Human Rights in China (HRIC) has received information suggesting that a young woman was wrongly convicted of a crime because of her father’s efforts to clamp down on a massive corruption ring in their home village.

Magda Hornemam ... The barring of the sites maintained by the human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and Chinese exile human rights groups like Human Rights in China has long been documented, but Forum 18 found that specific Christian religious rights sites that report on...

For Immediate Release

Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that Zhang Youren , the leader of a group of displaced farmers in Hebei province, has been subjected to severe official persecution.

Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that 4,000 peasants from villages surrounding Zigong City, Sichuan Province, have submitted a petition to the central government alleging wrongdoing by the deputy secretary of the disciplinary inspection committee of Sichuan Province, Liu Youlin , in...

Mark Magnier ..."This will send a chilling message to all those who use the Internet as a forum for expression," said Nicholas Becquelin, the Hong Kong- based research director of Human Rights in China . "It tears down the myth that freedom of the Internet is pushing forward in China."... Full...

Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that the government of Ningde City, Fujian Province has forcibly confiscated land originally set aside for overseas Chinese seeking refuge in China, rendering thousands of these refugees homeless.

... Notre Dame during the protests. He flew back soon after the massacre and in 1991, founded Human Rights in China . As a result of ... Full Article

John M. Glionna ..."Either he's been killed already or he's still in some black hole in a Chinese prison," said Sharon Hom, executive director of the U.S.-based group Human Rights in China . "If he is alive and free, a man willing to stand in front of a tank would have come forward by now and not...

For Immediate Release Human Rights in China (HRIC) has obtained information regarding the current situations of a number of Chinese citizens sentenced to long terms for various crimes of so-called “hooliganism” during the brutal crackdown on protesters in June 1989. Ren Hongze was sentenced to 14...

Human Rights in China (HRIC), as a member of the June 4th Memorial Global Coalition, will be participating in a candlelight vigil on June 4th in front of the Chinese Consulate in New York City from 7:00-10:00 p.m. HRIC invites members of the public to join in calling for accountability from the...

Luis Ramirez "...The women have been under what advocates describe as house arrest. Nicholas Becquelin with the New York Human Rights in China group said, 'All their calls are monitored and they have told them not to do specific things such as talking to other activists, talking with foreign media...