Rights Defenders

UN High Commissioner must uphold principled and coherent response to China’s human rights crisis

mia — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:52:13 +0000

April 19, 2022

UN High Commissioner must uphold principled and coherent response to China’s human rights crisis

Government Accountability

In anticipation of her upcoming visit to China, HRIC joins 59 human rights NGOs around the world in calling upon Michelle Bachelet to improve her office’s approach to addressing China’s human rights abuses. Among the NGOs’ requests are: release the long-delayed OHCHR report on Xinjiang, ensure the...

HRIC Urges China to Lift Travel Ban on Guo Feixiong and Not Create More Family Tragedies

tw — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:58:12 +0000

January 28, 2021

HRIC Urges China to Lift Travel Ban on Guo Feixiong and Not Create More Family Tragedies

Statement

Guo Feixiong ( 郭飞雄 ) , well-known Chinese human rights activist, was stopped at the Shanghai Pudong Airport on January 28 while en route to the United States to care for his ailing wife. The authorities reportedly cited “ suspicion of endangering national security " as the reason. Guo has begun a...

Access to Justice

Guo Feixiong

Urgent Open Letter to Premier Li Keqiang and Minister Zhao Kezhi

tw — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:12:30 +0000

January 10, 2021

Urgent Open Letter to Premier Li Keqiang and Minister Zhao Kezhi

Citizens' Square

On January 10, well-known Chinese rights activist Guo Feixiong issued an urgent open letter (see below) to Premier Li Keqiang and Minister of Public Security Zhao Kezhi, urging them to order Guangzhou authorities to return his passport so that he may come to the United States to take care of his...

Access to Justice

Guo Feixiong

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

Citizens' Square

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-...

Wang Quanzhang: Released from Prison but " Still Serving his Sentence"

phb — Fri, 08 May 2020 04:30:27 +0000

April 23, 2020

Wang Quanzhang: Released from Prison but " Still Serving his Sentence"

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

Wang Quanzhang ( 王全璋) , a lawyer in custody since the “709” crackdown in 2015, was supposedly released from prison on April 5, 2020. But instead of being allowed to go home to Beijing, Wang was sent to Jinan ostensibly for a 14-day quarantine. But by April 23, he had still not been allowed to...

Li Wenzu

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

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

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...

“We’ll strike you dead in one blow”: Jiang Tianyong Threatened by Domestic Security

phb — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 22:41:09 +0000

April 4, 2019

“We’ll strike you dead in one blow”: Jiang Tianyong Threatened by Domestic Security

Citizens' Square

Rule Of Law

Jin Bianling (金变玲), wife of human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong (江天勇) ,says in a Twitter post that in recent days, Jiang Tianyong’s family has suffered sharply increased monitoring and harassment by domestic security personnel from the Luoshan County Public Security Bureau, in Xinyang City, Henan...

Jiang Tianyong

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

Pu Wenqing, 85, Appeals Again for Seriously Ill Son, Huang Qi

tw — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:35:29 +0000

October 21, 2018

Pu Wenqing, 85, Appeals Again for Seriously Ill Son, Huang Qi

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

Huang Qi ’s ( 黄琦 )mother, Pu Wenqing ( 蒲文清 ), speaks out once again to condemn the authorities’ persecution of Huang Qi. She calls on the international community to pay attention to his case and urges the authorities to transfer Huang Qi, who is suffering from various serious diseases, to a...

Huang Qi

Ailing Sichuan Rights Defender Huang Qi in Custody for Nearly Two years, Mother, 85, Urges Fair and Open Trial

phb — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:37:54 +0000

August 22, 2018

Ailing Sichuan Rights Defender Huang Qi in Custody for Nearly Two years, Mother, 85, Urges Fair and Open Trial

Citizens' Square

Access to Justice

Detained since November 2016, Sichuan rights activist Huang Qi was indicted in January 2018 on charges of “illegally providing state secrets abroad.” But the authorities have not yet brought him to trial. The charge was based on Huang’s publication on the Internet of a document by the Political and...

Huang Qi