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Citizen Activist Liu Yuandong Hasn’t Been Let outside since First Detained in March 2013
Liu Yuangdong was among the first activists of the Southern Street Movement to be detained. He was tried in January 2014 in the Tianhe District People's Court, Guangzhou, Guandong, and the court has not yet issued a ruling and he remains in detention. Liu Yuandong said to his lawyer, Liu Zhengqing...
August 22, 2015
Citizens' Square
Liu Yuandong
Yu Wensheng’s Letter of Complaint
[Translation by Human Rights in China] On August 11, 2015, Yu Wensheng filed a letter of complaint with the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, Shijingshan District’s government, Supervisory Bureau, and the Procuratorate, demanding an investigation into the actions and responsibility of the...
August 11, 2015
Citizens' Square
My husband Li Heping Part 7
Last night, I received a text message from my son: “Mom, when do I come back?” I had promised to pick him up, but because of what happened to lawyer Chunfu [Li Heping’s younger brother], I was delayed again. I couldn’t stop my tears from falling. At that moment, I didn’t know how to reply to this...
August 11, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Urgent Appeal to Investigate Actions by Ministry of Public Security Police against More than 200 Lawyers and Citizens
On July 31, lawyers, relatives of targeted lawyers, and other citizens initiated a signature campaign for an appeal to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. The appeal requests that officers from the Ministry of Public Security be investigated and...
August 4, 2015
Letter of Complaint Sent to The Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China
[Translation by Human Rights in China] See Chinese original . To: Supreme People’s Procuratorate Complainant: Yu Wensheng July 31, 2015 Complainant: Yu Wensheng, Male, Born November 11, 1967, Lawyer, From Beijing, Phone: 13910033651, Address: Room 712, No. 2 CRD Yinzuo, Shijingshan District,...
July 31, 2015
Citizens' Square
Civil Complaint by Wang Qiaoling, Wife of Lawyer Li Heping, against Xinhua News Agency and Eight other Media Organizations for Defaming Her Husband
On July 10, 2015, rights defense lawyer Li Heping was forcibly taken from his home by a number of unidentified individuals who did not provide any official documents or a notice of detention. Wang Qiaoling, his wife, has been inquiring with many public security bureaus regarding his whereabouts but...
August 3, 2015
Citizens' Square
My husband Li Heping, Part 6—Account of my first criminal summons
In the course of my search for my husband and Chunfu [Li Heping’s younger brother] being taken away, I’ve come to a spot I’ve never imagined before. After calls from the Beijing Public Security Bureau for two consecutive days asking me to have a talk about my writings online, and I refused to...
August 6, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Quanzhang, We're Waiting for You to Come Home—Excerpts
“If I don't do this, and if nobody does it, then what would happen to the people who need help?”—Wang Quangzhang . . . As the wife of a human rights lawyer, I worry about your safety constantly. Every time I see you drag your tired body home after rushing around day and night—everything my eyes...
August 6, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Joint Letter Regarding Health of Imprisoned Journalist Gao Yu
August 5, 2015 President Xi Jinping General Secretary Office Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Zhongnanhai Ximen Fuyou Street Xicheng District Beijing 100017 People’s Republic of China Mr. Meng Jianzhu Secretary of Central Politics and Law Commission 14 Beichizi Street Dongcheng...
August 6, 2015
Joint Statements
Pu Zhiqiang
My husband Li Heping, Part 5—Lawyer Li Chunfu, Heping's Younger Brother
Actually, out of the Li brothers, Li Heping is not the most inspiring one; it is Li Chunfu. Heping’s ancestral home can be described as poverty-stricken. When Li Heping and I were married there, the marital bed had no mattress; it was straw covered in a coarse cotton sheet. The year when Heping...
August 4, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters

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