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Final Verdict on Qin Yongmin from the Hubei Provincial High People’s Court
On September 26, 2018, the Hubei Provincial High People’s Court upheld a lower court’s ruling on veteran rights activist Qin Yongmin’s case: conviction of subversion of state power, a 13-year prison term, and three years of post-release deprivation of political rights. Qin was detained on March 30...
September 26, 2018
Citizens' Square
Qin Yongmin
Excerpts from the Record of What Huang Qi Said During His Meeting with Lawyer Liu Zhengqing
The following narrative—signed by and in the first-person voice of Huang Qi, the detained Sichuan rights activist—is excerpted from the record made by lawyer Liu Zhengqing of what Huang said to him during their meeting on September 7, 2018. Photos of the original record in Chinese, credited to Wu...
October 3, 2018
HRIC Bulletin
Huang Qi
Wife of Rights Activist Jiang Yefei Calls on Canadian Government, UN, and International Human Rights Organizations to Help Her Husband
In her appeal below, Chu Ling ( 楚玲 ), the wife of the imprisoned political cartoonist and rights activist Jiang Yefei ( 姜野飞 ) , urges the Canadian government, the United Nations, and international human rights organizations to intervene in her husband’s case. Chu calls on them to pressure the...
September 18, 2018
HRIC Bulletin
Ailing Sichuan Rights Defender Huang Qi in Custody for Nearly Two years, Mother, 85, Urges Fair and Open Trial
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...
August 22, 2018
Citizens' Square
Huang Qi
Update on Wang Quanzhang—No “Hard Violence”
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...
July 20, 2018
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Regarding Lawyer Wang Quanzhang’s Case of Alleged “Subversion of State Power”
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...
July 18, 2018
Citizens' Square
Wang Quanzhang
Ruling by the Wuhan Intermediate People’s Court on Qin Yongmin’s Case
On July 10, Qin Yongmin, 64, veteran democracy activist, a cofounder of the China Democracy Party and founder of China Human Rights Watch, is sentenced to 13 years in prison for “subversion of state power.” The court’s ruling details the government’s accusations against Qin Yongmin: writing a large...
July 10, 2018
Citizens' Square
Qin Yongmin
Account of Applying to Attend Trial of Qin Yongmin
This account describes the experience of the writer and other rights defenders from different areas in the country who intended to going to Wuhan to apply to attend the trial of Qin Yongmin. Some activists were intercepted in their local areas, and the others who arrived at the court were...
July 11, 2018
Citizens' Square
Qin Yongmin
International Community Must Stand in Solidarity with Chinese Human Rights Lawyers
Three years have passed since the 709 Crackdown, but the Chinese authorities’ repression of human rights lawyers in China continues. The 709 Crackdown not only marked the beginning of a downturn of China’s political environment, but also has far-reaching negative implications for China’s judicial...
July 6, 2018
Statement
Huang Qi's Mother Appeals to Central Authorities for Unconditional Release of Her Son
Pu Wenqing ( 蒲文清 ), mother of detained Sichuan rights activist Huang Qi ( 黄琦) , recently sent an appeal to request the Central Inspection Team to instruct relevant authorities in Sichuan Province and Mianyang Municipality to openly and fairly handle Huang Qi’s case in accordance with the law, and...
May 4, 2018
HRIC Bulletin
Huang Qi

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