Public Appeal

Feng Xiaoyan, Deputy Investigator of the People’s Congress of Linyi, Shandong, is Forced to Take Schizophrenia Medications for Distributing Democracy Leaflets

phb — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:45:25 +0000

June 15, 2020

Feng Xiaoyan, Deputy Investigator of the People’s Congress of Linyi, Shandong, is Forced to Take Schizophrenia Medications for Distributing Democracy Leaflets

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Government Accountability

Distributing democracy leaflets in Beijing landed Feng Xiaoyan in the No. 4 People’s Hospital in Linyi, Shandong, where she has been kept as a psychiatric patient and force-fed medications.

China Human Rights Lawyers Group's Public Statement on Safeguarding the Legal Rights of Lawyer Liu Yingying

phb — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:03:23 +0000

April 6, 2020

China Human Rights Lawyers Group's Public Statement on Safeguarding the Legal Rights of Lawyer Liu Yingying

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Access to Justice

On April 2, 2020, the Zhengzhou Lawyers Association issued a disciplinary “warning” to lawyer Liu Yingying( 刘莹莹 ) for posting on her blog an article titled, “Today, family members lined up in a long queue to pick up their relatives’ ashes at the Hankou Funeral Home.“ The warning states that Liu is...

Urgent Appeal Concerning State Compensation in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 National Disaster

phb — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:41:35 +0000

March 22, 2020

Urgent Appeal Concerning State Compensation in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 National Disaster

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Access to Information

Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, thirteen Chinese citizens from Beijing, Fujian, Hunan, Shandong, and other provinces, including Li Yingzhi ( 李英之 ) , Zha Jianguo ( 查建国 ) and Lin Yubin ( 林于斌 ) urge the government to take the following actions: Conduct a public memorial service on Qing...

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

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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...

A Specific Question: When Will the “Two No Worries and Three Guarantees” be Truly and Fully Realized?

phb — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:57:52 +0000

February 16, 2020

A Specific Question: When Will the “Two No Worries and Three Guarantees” be Truly and Fully Realized?

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Government Accountability

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...

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

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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

“Admonition to Resign”

phb — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:37:54 +0000

February 4, 2020

“Admonition to Resign”

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Public Appeal

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...

Xu Zhiyong

Strongly Urging the CPC Central Committee to Set up a Special Case Team for Four Henan Farmer Petitioners Who Lost Land

phb — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 23:23:23 +0000

January 20, 2020

Strongly Urging the CPC Central Committee to Set up a Special Case Team for Four Henan Farmer Petitioners Who Lost Land

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Corruption

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...

I Am Not a "Subverter of State Power"

phb — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 23:47:49 +0000

January 15, 2020

I Am Not a "Subverter of State Power"

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Subversion Of State Power

Shi Minglei (施明磊), the wife of Cheng Yuan (程渊), who has been in custody for his public interest advocacy, tweeted today that as a result of her continuous fight, the Changsha Municipal Bureau of State Security finally lifted her residential surveillance that had lasted nearly six months, and...

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”

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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

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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...

Private Chat on WeChat Is Criminalized——An Appeal by the wife of Li Huaiqing, a private entrepreneur in Chongqing

tw — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 22:18:36 +0000

August 19, 2019

Private Chat on WeChat Is Criminalized——An Appeal by the wife of Li Huaiqing, a private entrepreneur in Chongqing

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Access to Justice

The case of Li Huaiqing, a private entrepreneur in Chongqing who is suspected of “inciting subversion of state power,” will be tried on August 22. After a year and eight months of silence, Li’s wife, Bao Yan, made her first public appeal, directed at relevant government departments: Don't sit back...

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

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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...

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

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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)

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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