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China Claims It Has Always Encouraged And Supported Lawyers
Next Tuesday and Wednesday, November 17 and 18, in Geneva, the UN Committee Against Torture will review China on its implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), which it ratified in 1988. This review is taking place in a year...
November 13, 2015
HRIC Bulletin
Open Letter by 17 Lawyers Forbidden from Leaving China
Lawyers who have been prevented from leaving China issued a statement to the Beijing Public Security Bureau asking for “prompt correction” of the decision to stop them from overseas travel. Signatories: Cai Ying (蔡瑛) Chen Jiangang (陈建刚) Ge Wenxiu (葛文秀) Ge Yongxi (葛永喜) Huang Simin (黄思敏) Li Guobei (...
November 11, 2015
Citizens' Square
Lawyer Lin Qilei's Account of Being Prevented From Leaving China
Lin Qilei was told by police at the Beijing Airport that the Beijing Public Security Bureau believes Lin "exiting Chinese territory would endanger state security."
November 10, 2015
Citizens' Square
Winter has come, is spring far behind?
In the Four Months Since My Uncle Went Missing Winter has arrived, it’s much colder now. November 10: it will have been four months since my uncle was forcibly disappeared. During this time, his lawyer went to Tianjin three times to apply to meet him but the public security departments twice made...
November 9, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
"To Advance Rule of Law, and Never Again Be Violated by the Powerful—Please Support Human Rights Lawyers!"
He Fengzhu from Wuxi, six months pregnant, set off firecrackers at Tiananmen Square. She was later taken away by authorities from the Binhu District branch of the Wuxi Municipal Public Security Bureau, and finally released on bail. In the account below, which consists of information she provided...
October 27, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Authorities Widen Crackdown on Lawyers to Include Their Children
Liu Xiaoyuan (刘晓原) , a lawyer with the Fengrui Law Firm—which is a chief target of the large-scale government crackdown on rights defense lawyers since July of this year—discloses that public security authorities have refused to process his son’s application for a passport to go abroad for graduate...
October 16, 2015
HRIC Bulletin
China, what have we done actually?
China, what have we done actually? I don’t know lawyer Wang Yu’s son Bao Zhuoxuan personally, but my son has met him once. They went swimming together. When I heard from a lawyer friend on October 8 that Zhouxuan was taken away by police in Myanmar, I couldn't believe it. I tried to comfort this...
October 13, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
A Human Rights Report by Chinese Citizen Ding Hongfen
In this narrative, Ding, a resident of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, recounts the forced demolition and relocation of her family in 2009, and the unlawful detention and torment that her entire family suffered as a result of defending its rights over the past six and half years.
September 15, 2015
Citizens' Square
Four Activists Illegally Detained for Over Two Years
In this statement, author Jia Pin appeals for public awareness of the plight of activists Yuan Xiaohua, Huang Wenxun, Yuan Fengchu, and Chen Jianxiong. The four have been illegally detained for two years and four months, and abused in detention.
September 15, 2015
Citizens' Square
Tang Jingling Meets with Lawyer, His Situation Is Worrisome
[Translation by Human Rights in China] [Disseminated via WeChat] On September 1, 2015, lawyer Ge Yongxi went to Guangzhou No. 1 Detention Center to meet with Tang Jingling, and read the Bible for him. Tang had long wanted a Bible to read, but has been denied by the detention authorities to have one...
September 9, 2015
Citizens' Square
Tang Jingling

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