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Arbitrary Detention

Open Government Information Request Templates: Jiansanjiang Series 1-20
Human rights lawyer Liu Weiguo circulated online 20 templates of Open Government Information requests seeking disclosure of information concerning the detention of the four lawyers and the authorities’ refusal to allow them to meet their lawyers. Liu asks citizens to fill out the applications, mail...
March 31, 2014
Citizens' Square
HRIC Urges International Attention: Lawyers and Citizens Detained in Heilongjiang, Lawyers on Hunger Strike in Protest
On March 21, 2014, four rights defense lawyers, Jiang Tianyong (江天勇), Tang Jitian (唐吉田), Wang Cheng (王成) , and Zhang Junjie (张俊杰) , as well as an unknown number of citizens were detained by police authorities in Jiansanjiang, Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省建三江). Their detention took place one day after...
March 26, 2014
HRIC Bulletin
Tang Jitian
Supporter of Asset Transparency Advocates Kept in Iron Cage for 25 Hours
Rights defender Zhou Li ( 周莉) told Human Rights in China that she was taken into custody early morning December 3 from outside the Yushui District People’s Court in Xinyu, Jiangxi Province. Zhou, based in Beijing, had gone to the court to show her support for Liu Ping ( 刘萍 ) , Wei Zhongping ( 魏忠平...
December 4, 2013
HRIC Bulletin
Liu Ping
Account of the Kidnapping of Zhang Anni by Hefei Police
In his article , rights activist Zhang Lin describes the kidnapping of his 10-year-old daughter and her 20-hour illegal detention in Hefei and Bengbu, Anhui Province, on February 27 and 28. Police also searched Zhang’s home in Hefei, took away his keys, mobile, and computer. Photos of Zhang Anni...
March 1, 2013
Citizens' Square
Letter to Xi Jinping on 268 Days of Illegal Detention
In this article (Chinese only), Shanghainese rights activist Feng Zhenghu (冯正虎) narrates how he sent a letter to CPC Secretary-General and PRC President Xi Jinping (习近平) in December 2012, with a complaint on how he spent 268 days in illegal detention in 2012, and what happened as a result.
January 14, 2013
Article
Feng Zhenghu
An Appeal to Chinese Government to Release Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia—Global Signature Campaign
Attachment 1 Announcement of a December 8, 2012 press conference and seminar in Flushing, New York City, organized by “Friends of Liu Xiaobo,” to launch a global campaign to obtain the release of Liu Xiaobo and his wife, Liu Xia. Attachment 2 A letter of support for the campaign from Ding Zilin, a...
December 4, 2012
Public Appeal
Liu Xia
I Was Illegally Detained for Eight Hours on December 1, 2012
Veteran rights defender Guo Feixiong says that in order to prevent him from going to a legal seminar where friends of his were attending, Guangzhou police detained him for eight hours on trumped-up charges, including “selling fake alcohol” and “disturbing public order.” Guo says that he has been...
December 2, 2012
Citizens' Square
Guo Feixiong
Urgent Appeals from Detained Hunan Lawyer and His Family; Letter from His Law Firm to Changsha Municipal Bureau of Justice and Lawyers Association
In this appeal ( Chinese only ), Cai Ying (蔡瑛) states that he is being held in a place that the Yuanjiang Municipal Commission for Discipline and Inspection of Hunan Province uses to detain and interrogate people in the name of “residential surveillance.” Cai, a lawyer with the Xiangjun Law Firm in...
October 20, 2012
Citizens' Square
Cai Ying
Where Are Human Rights? Shanghainese Rights Defenders Meet Trouble in Beidaihe
[Black Jails]Four Shanghainese petitioners were intercepted by authorities on July 20, 2012 as they attempted to go to Beidaihe District, Hebei Province for a weekend trip. The four were detained and forcibly returned to Shanghai. Li Yufang (李玉芳) writes of two of the petitioners' experiences upon...
July 31, 2012
Article
Financial Fraud Victim Recounts Injustices
Liu Fanbi (刘凡必), a victim of financial fraud, was sentenced to five years on a trumped-up charge after he offended a procuratorate officer while trying to retrieve his losses that the authorities had confiscated from the criminals. Liu began petitioning to authorities at different government levels...
July 1, 2012
Article
Liu Fanbi

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