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Authorities Widen Crackdown on Lawyers to Include Their Children
Liu Xiaoyuan (刘晓原) , a lawyer with the Fengrui Law Firm—which is a chief target of the large-scale government crackdown on rights defense lawyers since July of this year—discloses that public security authorities have refused to process his son’s application for a passport to go abroad for graduate...
October 16, 2015
HRIC Bulletin
Another Zhejiang Democracy Activist in Custody for “Subversion”
Less than a month following the August 13 arrest of Lü Gengsong ( 吕耿松 ) on “subversion of state power,” another core member of the China Democracy Party’s Zhejiang Committee, Chen Shuqing ( 陈树庆) , was detained on the same charge. Chen’s wife, Zhang Donghong ( 张东红) , told HRIC that at 3:30 p.m. on...
September 15, 2014
HRIC Bulletin
Chen Shuqing
China Issues New Regulations on Mobile Text and Voice Messaging Services (HRIC Translation)
(Updated August 12, 2014) The State Internet Information Office (国家互联网信息办公室), the top government agency that oversees online content management, issued, on August 7, a set of regulations on mobile instant messaging services—such as WeChat (Tencent), Yixin (NetEase), and Feixin (China Mobile)—...
August 8, 2014
HRIC Bulletin
New Rules Tighten Control on Use of News Information (HRIC Translation)
A set of rules aimed at countering the “abuse” of information obtained by news personnel in the course of news gathering and other related professional activities went into effect on June 30, 2014. (See HRIC’s English translation below.) The rules, issued by the State Administration of Press,...
July 22, 2014
HRIC Bulletin
Shanghai Petitioner Li Yufang Convicted, Sentenced to One Year
Shanghai petitioner Li Yufang ( 李玉芳 ) , who had petitioned for more than a decade for compensation for the forced requisition of her family home, was found guilty of “obstructing official business.” Li was tried at the Yangpu District People's Court in Shanghai on July 4, 2014, and received a...
July 14, 2014
HRIC Bulletin
Li Yufang
“June Fourth at 25: Resisting Enforced Amnesia, Building a Just Future”
Today, HRIC launches a new advocacy initiative: “June Fourth at 25: Resisting Enforced Amnesia, Building a Just Future.” Since the military crackdown on the 1989 Democracy Movement, known as June Fourth, HRIC has provided advocacy support and solidarity to individuals and groups—particularly the...
April 10, 2014
HRIC Bulletin
HRIC Urges International Attention: Lawyers and Citizens Detained in Heilongjiang, Lawyers on Hunger Strike in Protest
On March 21, 2014, four rights defense lawyers, Jiang Tianyong (江天勇), Tang Jitian (唐吉田), Wang Cheng (王成) , and Zhang Junjie (张俊杰) , as well as an unknown number of citizens were detained by police authorities in Jiansanjiang, Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省建三江). Their detention took place one day after...
March 26, 2014
HRIC Bulletin
Tang Jitian
Cao Shunli’s Living Legacy: International and Domestic Responses
On March 14, 2014, Cao Shunli ’s (曹顺利) family arrived at the 309 Military Hospital in Beijing to find that Cao had already died . Since she was transferred there from an emergency medical center on February 20, she had been on a ventilator and non-responsive. There have been growing concerns...
March 18, 2014
HRIC Bulletin
Cao Shunli
New Regulations Implementing State Secrets Law Offer No Greater Transparency
On March 1, the Regulations on the Implementation of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Guarding State Secrets will go into effect. When first announced on February 2, the Xinhua News Agency presented them as “an effort to boost government transparency.” However, the regulations, read...
February 28, 2014
HRIC Bulletin
Doctor Says Cao Shunli on Life Support, Family Made to Sign Medical Parole
Rights activist Liu Xiaofang ( 刘晓芳) who visited Cao Shunli ( 曹顺利) at the 309 Military Hospital told HRIC that a Dr. Su there said that Cao is on life support and her condition is terminal. Liu said that Cao did not respond when she called out to her loudly through a glass window. According to Liu,...
February 28, 2014
HRIC Bulletin
Cao Shunli

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