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Imprisoned Lawyer Tang Jingling Participates in Hunger Strike Relay in Support of Guo Feixiong and Yu Shiwen
Lawyer and activist Tang Jingling issued the below statement about his plan to go on a one-day hunger strike, on May 16, 2016, in solidarity with the imprisoned Guo Feixiong and detained Yu Shiwen —both also on hunger strike to protest mistreatment. May 16 marks the two-year anniversary since Tang...
May 10, 2016
Citizens' Square
Guo Feixiong
Ai Xiaoming: Reflections on My Hunger Strike
Ai Xiaoming , retired professor of Sun Yat-sen University and scholar of women's and public issues, went on a voluntary hunger strike for 24 hours to urge for the humane treatment of Guo Feixiong in detention, and also to support Yu Shiwen’s calls for justice, who was her Sun Yat-sen classmate. She...
May 4, 2016
Citizens' Square
Ai Xiaoming
Tan Zuoren: Hunger Strike Statement
Tan Zuoren, well-known environmental and human rights activist, was among the first participants of the “Save Guo Feixiong Hunger Strike Relay.” In this statement, Tan explains that a decade ago, when Guo was on hunger strike in prison, members of the Chengdu Study Group organized a hunger strike...
May 4, 2016
Citizens' Square
Guo Feixiong
A Contested History (Podcast-Mandarin)
(Listen to the podcast) HRIC Introduction In this segment of the HRIC podcast series, “A Contested History,” a mainlander working in Hong Kong talks about the significance of the annual June 4th candlelight vigil held in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park that commemorates the victims of the military...
August 17, 2015
China Rights Forum
A Contested History (Transcript)
( Listen to the podcast ) [Translation by Human Rights in China] HRIC Introduction In this segment of the HRIC podcast series, “A Contested History,” a mainlander working in Hong Kong talks about the significance of the annual June 4th candlelight vigil held in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park that...
August 17, 2015
China Rights Forum
A Complex Relationship (Transcript)
(Listen to the podcast) HRIC Introduction Welcome to the first installment of HRIC’s new podcast series. We begin with a segment that looks at the complex relationship between Hong Kongers and mainlanders at this critical historical juncture. Last year in Hong Kong, during the Umbrella Movement,...
August 17, 2015
China Rights Forum
A Complex Relationship (Podcast-English)
(Listen to the podcast) HRIC Introduction Welcome to the first installment of HRIC’s new podcast series. We begin with a segment that looks at the complex relationship between Hong Kongers and mainlanders at this critical historical juncture. Last year in Hong Kong, during the Umbrella Movement,...
August 17, 2015
China Rights Forum
Editor's Note (CRF 2015.1)
In this new issue of China Rights Forum —“HK & Mainland: Shared Future, Contested Present”—we are pleased to launch our new podcast series. Building upon the discussion we initiated in two previous CRF issues: “ Hong Kong & Mainland China: Building a shared Future ” (2011, No. 4), and “...
August 14, 2015
China Rights Forum
CRF 2015, no. 1 - HK & Mainland: Shared Future, Contested Present
Building upon the discussion we initiated in two previous China Rights Forum issues: “Hong Kong & Mainland China: Building a shared Future” (2011, No. 4), and “Steadfast in the Storm” (2014, No. 2), we continue to explore the linkages between the present citizen struggles and democratic futures...
In Statement, Journalist Shi Tao Protests Deletion of WeChat Contents
In a statement of protest (see below), Shi Tao, a journalist who served eight years of a ten-year prison term, says that contents in his social networking WeChat account were deleted in recent days, in the lead up to the 26th anniversary of the June Fourth crackdown on the 1989 Democracy Movement...
June 5, 2015
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