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A Specific Question: When Will the “Two No Worries and Three Guarantees” be Truly and Fully Realized?
In this article, Lu Dachun, a long-time petitioner who previously served a two year-sentence for petitioning-related activities, points out that although the central government has emphasized the need to solve the outstanding problems of "two no worries [about food and clothing] and three...
February 16, 2020
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Suffering Members of our Church Need your Attention and Prayer
Christian Jiang Zhanchun ( 蒋湛春) has been criminally detained in Zhenjiang City Detention Center on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble and disrupting the working order of state organs." Xu Yonghai ( 徐永海) , an elder of the Beijing Christian house church, Divine Love Group, appeals...
March 5, 2020
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Xu Yonghai
“Will the Terrible Price We Paid Buy Us Press Freedom?”
The Peking University professor and advocate of judicial reform in China says in this handwritten short essay, “Without press freedom, not only would the people’s livelihood be difficult, there would be no trust in government, let alone the possibility of a capable modern governance system.” 贺卫方：...
February 17, 2020
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Statement by Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Group on the outbreak of novel coronavirus
The group’s appeals include the following: the protection of fundamental human rights in the course of epidemic prevention and control; the establishment by the National People’s Congress of a special investigative commission that includes independent professional and organizations to conduct a...
February 12, 2020
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“Admonition to Resign”
The lead advocate of the New Citizens Movement lambasts Xi Jinping for his incompetence and mismanagement of the coronavirus epidemic, asking the Chinese president to resign for the sake of the country. Xu was detained in southern China on February 17, 2020. He is reported to be facing “inciting...
February 4, 2020
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Xu Zhiyong
An Appeal to the Beijing Municipal Government to Launch Urgent Mechanism to Protect Lawyer Yu Wensheng, a Beijing Resident
Xu Yan ( 许艳 ) , the wife of Beijing lawyer Yu Wensheng ( 余文生 ) , sends a letter to the Mayor of Beijing, seven Deputy Mayors, and the Chief Secretary of the municipal government, appealing to them, on whom the people depend for their livelihood, to immediately launch a mechanism for protecting and...
March 15, 2020
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Yu Wensheng
Emergency Notice from Zhangwan District on Implementing Districtwide Wartime Management and Control
This notice from the Zhangwan District of Shiyan City in Hubei Province, approximately 300 miles from Wuhan, with a population of 410,000 in the district, was posted on the website of Shiyan City at a little after 9:00 p.m. on February 12, 2020, announcing “Wartime Management and Control” beginning...
February 12, 2020
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Wuhan Police’s Reprimand of Coronavirus Whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang
On the afternoon of December 30, 2019, Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at the Wuhan Central Hospital, posted two messages in a Wechat group of his medical school classmates: “Seven cases of SARS were diagnosed connection with Huanan Fruit and Seafood Market” and “The latest news is that the...
February 6, 2020
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Strongly Urging the CPC Central Committee to Set up a Special Case Team for Four Henan Farmer Petitioners Who Lost Land
The " Beijing News " reported on January 16, 2020 that a court in Henan upheld a lower court’s “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” conviction of three Henan farmers in connection with their petitioning activities. Lu Dachun, a veteran petitioner and rights activist, questions why the farmers...
January 20, 2020
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Entering the New Year in Handcuffs: An Account of Being Taken into Custody on New Year's Eve
Li Qiaochu ( 李翘楚 ), the girlfriend of New Citizens Movement advocate Xu Zhiyong ( 许志永) , posted an article on Twitter describing the police search of Xu’s home and her home in Beijing on New Year's Eve. When officers came to search Xu’s home, Li was there but Xu was not. Afterwards, they took Li to...
January 9, 2020
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Ding Jiaxi

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