Arbitrary Detention

Transcript of Video Statement by Detained Rights Lawyer Chang Weiping

tw — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 20:34:21 +0000

October 16, 2020

Transcript of Video Statement by Detained Rights Lawyer Chang Weiping

Access to Justice

Just six days after making this statement, Chang was taken away by police on October 22, 2020. Chang’s disappearance followed 10 months of “residential surveillance in a designated location” (RSDL)—presented by the authorities as “bail” condition of his previous detention that occurred in mid-...

Defending the Rights of Lawyer Yu Wensheng: A Chronology by His Wife, Xu Yan (Part 8)

phb — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 21:19:53 +0000

June 8, 2020

Defending the Rights of Lawyer Yu Wensheng: A Chronology by His Wife, Xu Yan (Part 8)

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

On January 19, 2018, lawyer Yu Wensheng published a "Citizen’s Proposal to Amend the Constitution," with recommendations for deleting the "Preamble” to the Constitution and for other political reforms. He was criminally detained the following day, on suspicion of "obstructing official business" and...

Yu Wensheng

Statement Regarding Anonymous Online Smear Campaign Against Chen Yuan

phb — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:40:48 +0000

September 20, 2019

Statement Regarding Anonymous Online Smear Campaign Against Chen Yuan

Citizens' Square

Subversion Of State Power

In her statement, Shi Minglei, the wife of Cheng Yuan, the public interest advocate facing charges of “subversion of state power,” cites serious factual inaccuracies in the article, "The Cheng Yuan I know" (谈谈我认识的程渊). She states that the article maliciously links, without evidence, the arrest of...

Suffering Members of our Church Need your Attention and Prayer

phb — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:00:52 +0000

March 5, 2020

Suffering Members of our Church Need your Attention and Prayer

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

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...

Xu Yonghai

An Appeal to the Beijing Municipal Government to Launch Urgent Mechanism to Protect Lawyer Yu Wensheng, a Beijing Resident

tw — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:12:01 +0000

March 15, 2020

An Appeal to the Beijing Municipal Government to Launch Urgent Mechanism to Protect Lawyer Yu Wensheng, a Beijing Resident

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

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...

Yu Wensheng

Entering the New Year in Handcuffs: An Account of Being Taken into Custody on New Year's Eve

phb — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 22:44:39 +0000

January 9, 2020

Entering the New Year in Handcuffs: An Account of Being Taken into Custody on New Year's Eve

Citizens' Square

Arbitrary Detention

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...

Ding Jiaxi

Bank Account Frozen, Complaints Going Nowhere, Difficulty in Getting By: An Account by Cheng Yuan's wife, Shi Minglei, Who is “Under Suspicion of Subversion of State Power”

phb — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 20:52:23 +0000

September 10, 2019

Bank Account Frozen, Complaints Going Nowhere, Difficulty in Getting By: An Account by Cheng Yuan's wife, Shi Minglei, Who is “Under Suspicion of Subversion of State Power”

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

Shi Minglei, wife of the arrested public interest activist Cheng Yuan, has been put under residential surveillance for 50 days already, on suspicion of “subversion of state power.” Without presenting any evidence, to date, to support their criminal allegations against Shi, the authorities have...

Brother of Cheng Yuan, Detained Changsha Legal Advocate, was Summoned with a Blank Summons

tw — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:12:59 +0000

September 2, 2019

Brother of Cheng Yuan, Detained Changsha Legal Advocate, was Summoned with a Blank Summons

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

In a September 2, 2019 Twitter post titled, " Being Summoned for the Second Time ,"* Cheng Hao, the brother of detained Changsha activist Cheng Yuan, provides an account of his being summoned again by the Zhonghuamen police station in Nanjing. According to his account, three police officers came to...

Complaint Filed by Wife of Cheng Yuan, One of Three Detained Changsha Rights Activists

tw — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 22:16:13 +0000

August 3, 2019

Complaint Filed by Wife of Cheng Yuan, One of Three Detained Changsha Rights Activists

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

On July 22, 2019, Cheng Yuan, Liu Yongze and Xiao Wu, three public interest law advocates of Changsha Funeng Organization, were seized by Changsha Municipal Bureau of State Security on suspicion of “subversion of state power” and have been detained in its detention center. Shi Minglei, Cheng Yuan’s...

Four Sichuan Dissidents in the “Remembering June Fourth" Case Will Be Tried in Court Consecutively Starting Tomorrow

phb — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 22:11:43 +0000

March 31, 2019

Four Sichuan Dissidents in the “Remembering June Fourth" Case Will Be Tried in Court Consecutively Starting Tomorrow

Citizens' Square

June Fourth

Liu Tianyan (刘天艳) , wife of dissident Fu Hailu (符海陆) —who is accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” for creating a wine bottle label in 2016 to mark the anniversary of June Fourth—posted this essay one day before his trial. She points out that Fu had in fact already been imprisoned for...

Mother of Huang Qi Injured by Police, Put Under House Arrest

phb — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 21:15:16 +0000

March 11, 2019

Mother of Huang Qi Injured by Police, Put Under House Arrest

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

According to a source inside China, since the Two Congresses started, Pu Wenqing (蒲文清) , the 86-year-old mother of Huang Qi (黄琦) , the detained veteran rights defender and the founder of 64 Tianwang website (64tianwang.com), has been under round-the-clock monitoring by security personnel. She has...

Huang Qi

Visiting Huang Qi’s Mother and Others (Text and photos)

tw — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:58:22 +0000

February 12, 2019

Visiting Huang Qi’s Mother and Others (Text and photos)

Citizens' Square

During Chinese New Year, Sichuan rights activist Tan Zuoren ( 谭作人) and his wife, Wang Qinghua ( 王庆华 ) visited the families of several fellow Sichuan rights defenders and activists: the mother of the imprisoned rights activist Huang Qi( 黄琦) ; the parents of Wu Guofeng( 吴国锋) , a student who died in...

Access to Justice

Chen Yunfei

HRIC Urges International Attention on 32 Jasic Workers and Supporters Detained, Disappeared

phb — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 23:59:08 +0000

December 7, 2018

HRIC Urges International Attention on 32 Jasic Workers and Supporters Detained, Disappeared

HRIC Bulletin

Labor Rights

On November 9 and 11, continuing their attempt to crush the support for a campaign to form an independent union by workers at the factory of Jasic Technology in Shenzhen, authorities seized 18 supporters in five cities—Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Wuhan. The actions included the...

Update on Wang Quanzhang—No “Hard Violence”

phb — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 14:43:05 +0000

July 20, 2018

Update on Wang Quanzhang—No “Hard Violence”

Citizens' Square

709 Crackdown

Wang Quanzhang, a rights lawyer, finally met with a lawyer after having been disappeared for more than three years. The lawyer, Liu Weiguo, reported that that Wang told him that he has suffered “no hard violence.” In the article below, Wang’s wife Li Wenzu reminds us what “no hard violence” means...

709 Families and Supporters

Regarding Lawyer Wang Quanzhang’s Case of Alleged “Subversion of State Power”

phb — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 20:02:34 +0000

July 18, 2018

Regarding Lawyer Wang Quanzhang’s Case of Alleged “Subversion of State Power”

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

Lawyer Wang Quanzhang was disappeared in July 2015, in the beginning stage of the 709 crackdown in which more than 300 lawyers and activists were affected—disappeared, detained, or questioned. Subsequently, all of the detainees were either prosecuted and sentenced or released—except lawyer Wang...

Wang Quanzhang