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The Kidnapping I have stayed in Northeast China for two weeks, filming during the daytime, and surfing the Internet at night. I know that after Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Prize, Beijing became very tense. After consulting with Teng Biao, 1 I decided to stay in his office in Wangjing, a suburb...

In 2006, HRIC conducted interviews with individuals involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square movement. Released in an audio podcast series, these oral histories explore the role of democracy and independent movements as China moves into the future. This podcast series is also a new media contribution...

Internet fever, state control and the hunger for free information

One woman’s struggle to help the victims of Henan’s HIV epidemic

The Chinese regime’s use of repression and the evolution of its targets In this article, Marie Holzman examines the evolution and nature of the current political regime in the People’s Republic of China, arguing that while the scope of repression may have diminished, it remains a principal policy...

The key to rights for China’s workers Bitter personal experience and wide observations of the conditions of Chinese workers led Li Qiang , a 28-year-old worker from Zigong, Sichuan, to become an advocate for independent unions. Li’s activism eventually forced him to flee his country. He now resides...

Teng Biao In this account of his kidnapping by the police in March 2008, Teng Biao, legal scholar and part-time human rights lawyer, tells how he came to have sympathy for his tormentors, who, in carrying out their duties in a thuggish system, ruined their own humanity.

The information contained in this summary is based on information collected by HRIC in June 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. Labor Media Censorship

The information contained in this summary is based on information collected by HRIC in August 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. Labor Media Censorship Petitions and Protests Human Rights...

Although many legal scholars are now saying publicly that Custody and Repatriation (C&R) violates national laws, the police continue to insist that it is indispensable. Nicolas Becquelin describes a system that has grown rapidly and continues to cause systemic abuses of the rights of poor...