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Arbitrary Detention

A Rights Defense Lawyer’s Personal Experience of the Rollback of Rule of Law in China
Li Tiantian (李天天), a former lawyer from Shanghai, has suffered continuous harassment by the authorities since she began participating in rights defense activities and publishing articles in 2009. Li made an online appeal in support of the Jasmine Revolution in February 2011, and since then was...
April 5, 2012
Article
Li Tiantian
Petitioners Detained by Police in Beijing on Qingming Day
On Qingming (Tomb Sweeping Day, April 4, 2012), police in Beijing detained many of the petitioners from Shanghai and other places in China who visited Beijing’s Babaoshan Cemetery to pay their respects at various graves. At another Beijing cemetery, five petitioners were detained when they tried to...
April 4, 2012
Citizens' Square
Shen Peilan
After 15 Days in Detention, Dissident Qin Yongmin Calls Off Interviews for 2012
Veteran dissident Qin Yongmin (秦永敏) was administratively detained for 10 days during the 2012 NPC/CPPCC Sessions by the Qingshan District Public Security Bureau in Wuhan, Hubei; he was then illegally detained an additional five days. Qin was illegally deprived of his right to meet with his family...
March 20, 2012
Article
Qin Yongmin
Li Jinping’s Handwritten Account of His Incarceration in a Psychiatric Hospital
January 6, 2012
Document
Li Jinping
Ni Rong’s Case Material
[Ni Rong] The “Strike-Hard” campaign launched by the central government in the early 1980s led to the imprisonment of many innocent people. Fujian citizen Ni Rong was detained at the scene of an arrest of a thief. He spent four days in intensive care after being tortured. He was not allowed to hire...
January 9, 2012
Document
Ni Rong
Comments on the Amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China (Draft)
This open letter (CH) from Lu Qing (路青) , the wife of Ai Weiwei (艾未未) , to the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People’s Congress (NPC) urges that the NPC not adopt the Draft Amendment without dropping several exceptional provisions that would allow the authorities to execute...
September 28, 2011
Open Letter
Ai Weiwei
To My Brothers, My Heroes
[Jasmine Rally Suppression] Since February 2011, many rights activists have been harassed, arbitrarily detained, disappeared, or placed under "residential surveillance." Some of them have been released but are not allowed to speak out. Rights defender Liu Shasha wrote about their experiences in...
May 26, 2011
Article
Liu Shasha
To Teng Biao, My Love
Poem by the wife of the rights defense legal scholar on the 60th day of his disappearance.
April 19, 2011
Citizens' Square
Teng Biao
Detained 24 Hours in Shanghai on the Way to the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony – An Open Letter to the Australian Foreign Minister
Re: Unlawful Detention by the Chinese Government Dear Honourable Foreign Minister, Mr. Kevin Rudd, At the end of November I received an invitation to attend the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony and Banquet in celebration of the 2010 Peace Prize Laureate, Liu Xiaobo. I decided to fly to Oslo from...
December 6, 2010
Public Appeal
Zhang Heci
Letter by Geng He to U.S. Congress
[Translated by Human Rights in China] Honorable Members of the United States Congress, My name is Geng He (耿和) and I am the wife of political prisoner and lawyer Gao Zhisheng (高智晟), who is currently being persecuted in mainland China. On March 11 this year, I arrived in the United States with my...
April 23, 2009
Open Letter
Gao Zhisheng

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