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Beijing Activist Commemorates June Fourth in Private, House Monitored throughout the Day
On June 4, 2016, the 27th anniversary of the June Fourth crackdown, six police officers, in three shifts, monitored Beijing activist Zha Jianguo’s home. On this day, in his home, he fasted and meditated to commemorate his fellow citizens who died during June Fourth. He reflected on three things:...
June 4, 2016
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What on Earth is Going On?!—Family Members and Lawyers of “709 Crackdown” Victims Being Controlled by Police!
Wang Quanxiu, elder sister of lawyer Wang Quanzhang, explains in the below account that Wang has been imprisoned for a full 11 months, on suspicion of “subversion of state power,” and that their mother spent her 70th birthday silently suffering and extremely worried about her son. Today, Wang...
June 6, 2016
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Zhang Qing’s Letter to Guo Feixiong Urging Him to Stop His Hunger Strike
杨茂东，你好！ 见字如面！ 我对你的情况有大致的了解。我非常理解在这种极端的处境下你的绝食抗争，同时我也非常担心你的身体，担心你的生命安危，因此我和孩子们出外为你做了一些呼吁，见了不同的人。 有很多老师们、朋友们让我转达他们对你的问候，大家都很关心你的身体状况，对你的绝食抗议表达理解。你的要求也很合理，因为发生在你身上的人权问题，其根源还是政治制度问题。在这种制度下，政治犯的待遇最差。改善关押的所有的政治犯的待遇，这一点当局是能够做得到的事。这已经是很低的要求。 如果当局对的处境有改善，你认为最基本的必须的关押条件有改善，请你综合各种情况，考虑停止绝食，以后再根据实际情况再作其他讨论。...
June 9, 2016
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Guo Feixiong
Urgent Requests by Shu Xiangxin’s Defense Lawyers on His Physical Condition after Beating
The morning before the January 8 trial of Shu Xiangxin, a Jinan rights defense lawyer charged with "libel," his lawyers Cai Ying and Li Fangping visited him at the Jinan No.2 detention center. They observed Shu’s deteriorating health conditions following savage beatings that Shu reported suffering...
January 8, 2016
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80+ Shanghai Petitioners Call for Revision of Petition Regulations and Investigation into Wrongdoing by State Bureau of Letters and Calls
More than 80 Shanghai petitioners filed a joint application for Administrative Reconsideration with the State Council Legislative Affairs Office, requesting the following: Confirmation, in accordance with the law, that Article 35 of the Petition Regulations of the State Council , other regulations...
March 8, 2016
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Does Elder Hu Shigen Have Money and Clothes in Detention?
Hu Shigen, a Beijing activist and house church leader, went missing on July 10, 2015 just prior to attending a church gathering. His family members received an arrest notice in mid-January, 2016, half a year later, notifying them that Hu had been criminally arrested on January 8, 2016 on suspicion...
April 24, 2016
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Hu Shigen
Feng Zhenghu Receives Criminal Summons before Two Congresses
On March 2, 2016, police restricted Shanghai rights defender Feng Zhenghu’s personal liberty by means of a criminal summons, thus preventing him from going to the Shanghai Office for Letters and Calls. This is the 38th time that Feng has received a criminal summons on suspicion of “refusal to carry...
March 3, 2016
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Feng Zhenghu
On the Sixth Day of Yu Shiwen’s Hunger Strike, Wife Wishes He Would “Cherish His Life”
After learning that her husband, Yu Shiwen , Henan dissident and one of the “Ten Gentlemen of Zhengzhou,” was on a hunger strike to protest his prolonged pretrial detention ( two years since he was first detained in May 2014 ), Chen Wei circulated the below message online. Chen Wei wishes to tell...
May 3, 2016
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Yu Shiwen
Lawyer of Wang Yu Forcibly Returned to Shenyang, Calls for Attention
Shenyang lawyer Li Yuhan, who practices in Beijing, published an update on March 15, 2016 in which she describes the events that unfolded when she went to the Tianjin Municipal Detention Center to request a meeting with Wang Yu on March 1. On that day, the detention center told her that Wang had...
March 15, 2016
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Wang Yu
Notes of First Meeting with Labor Activist He Xiaobo in Detention
He Xiaobo, Director of the Nanfeiyan Social Work Service Center—Guangdong, Foshan’s first non-profit organization providing assistance to workers—was criminally detained on December 4, 2015, by Foshan Municipal Public Security Bureau on suspicion of “misuse of one’s official position’” (职务侵占)...
June 7, 2016
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