HRIC Bulletin

China’s UPR: Will Concerns Raised over Ethnic and Religious Repression Lead to Accountability?

China’s continued repression of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet and acts in blatant violation of religious and cultural rights and freedoms protected under international law remained a focus of the concerns raised by many states during the Universal Periodic Review of China at the UN Human...

November 6, 2018

HRIC Bulletin

Government Accountability

UPR China: Will Governments Stand Firm on Accountability and Universal Standards?

On November 6, at the United Nations in Geneva, China will undergo the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of its human rights record. The review takes place amid mounting reports of mass internment of ethnic Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), and as China has stepped up...

November 1, 2018

HRIC Bulletin

Government Accountability

Excerpts from the Record of What Huang Qi Said During His Meeting with Lawyer Liu Zhengqing

The following narrative—signed by and in the first-person voice of Huang Qi, the detained Sichuan rights activist—is excerpted from the record made by lawyer Liu Zhengqing of what Huang said to him during their meeting on September 7, 2018. Photos of the original record in Chinese, credited to Wu...

October 3, 2018

HRIC Bulletin

Access to Justice

Huang Qi

Wife of Rights Activist Jiang Yefei Calls on Canadian Government, UN, and International Human Rights Organizations to Help Her Husband

In her appeal below, Chu Ling ( 楚玲 ), the wife of the imprisoned political cartoonist and rights activist Jiang Yefei ( 姜野飞 ) , urges the Canadian government, the United Nations, and international human rights organizations to intervene in her husband’s case. Chu calls on them to pressure the...

September 18, 2018

HRIC Bulletin

Access to Justice

Huang Qi's Mother Appeals to Central Authorities for Unconditional Release of Her Son

Pu Wenqing ( 蒲文清 ), mother of detained Sichuan rights activist Huang Qi ( 黄琦) , recently sent an appeal to request the Central Inspection Team to instruct relevant authorities in Sichuan Province and Mianyang Municipality to openly and fairly handle Huang Qi’s case in accordance with the law, and...

May 4, 2018

HRIC Bulletin

Access to Justice

Huang Qi

“I am under siege in my house”: Message from Li Wenzu, Wife of Disappeared Lawyer Wang Quanzhang

Below is a translation of a message from Li Wenzu ( 李文足 ) , wife of disappeared lawyer Wang Quanzhang ( 王全璋 ) , who has been put under house arrest in Beijing. The message was tweeted out on April 11 by Cai Chu ( 蔡楚 ) , chief editor of the minzhuzhongguo.org and canyu.org websites. On April 4, 2018...

April 11, 2018

HRIC Bulletin

Access to Justice

Li Wenzu

In Memoriam: Lois Wheeler Snow

Lois Wheeler Snow died on April 3, 2018, in Geneva, Switzerland. The actress and author was an outspoken critic of human rights abuses in China. Born in 1920 in Stockton, California, Ms. Snow was the widow of journalist Edgar Snow, whose 1937 book on the Communist revolution, Red Star Over China ,...

April 9, 2018

HRIC Bulletin

China’s Challenge to International Human Rights at UN Threatens Everyone: HRIC Submission to the Human Rights Council

In a parallel report submitted to the Human Rights Council, HRIC cautions that China has been mounting a systematic campaign at the United Nations to undermine the existing human rights system with consequences for Chinese people and for the effectiveness of human rights protections for all people...

March 30, 2018

HRIC Bulletin

International Human Rights

Guangdong Whistleblower Liu Yao, Serving 20 Years, Cites Violations of Judicial Process by 60 Officials

In an appeal submitted last week, Liu Yao ( 刘尧 ) , a well-known former rights defense lawyer sentenced to 20 years in prison and a fine of RMB 1.4 million ($221,000) for “extortion,” “fraud,” and “buying trafficked children,” asks the Guangdong Provincial Procuratorate to vacate his conviction. Liu...

March 22, 2018

HRIC Bulletin

Access to Justice

Seriously Ill, Activist Huang Qi in Detention Nearly One Year without Charge

Nearly a year ago, on November 28, 2016, Sichuan rights activist Huang Qi (黄琦) was detained by police in Chengdu and formally arrested the following month on suspicion of “illegally providing state secrets abroad.” Huang, a founder of 64 Tianwang Human Rights Center, has been in custody without a...

November 16, 2017

HRIC Bulletin