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Open Letter from Scholars Inside and Outside China in Support of Shenzhen Workers Demanding to Form Labor Union
More than 100 scholars inside and outside China have joined a growing domestic campaign to call for the release of workers at the Jasic factory in Shenzhen, who have been detained for demanding to form their own labor union to protect their rights. On July 27, seven of the workers, and 23...
August 1, 2018
Citizens' Square
30 Shenzhen Workers and Supporters Detained for Demanding to Form Labor Union
In this account, the writers, who are workers at Jasic Technology Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen, describe the seizure of fellow workers and their relatives. On the afternoon of July 27, when seven workers who are among the workers demanding to form a labor union came to the factory to work as usual, they...
July 30, 2018
Citizens' Square
Peking University Student Group Reports Widening Support for Detained Jasic Workers
In this update, the students and recent graduates of Peking University who initiated the public statement on July 29 to support the detained Jasic workers in Shenzhen report that their statement has garnered more than 1,600 signatures in just one day—despite the statement having been deleted from...
July 31, 2018
Citizens' Square
Letter of Support for Shenzhen Jasic Workers Arrested for Demanding to Form Labor Union
On July 27, 30 of workers and their supporters at Jasic Technology Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen, who were demanding to form a labor union, were detained by the police. On July 29, Yue Xin ( 岳昕 ), a recent graduate of Peking University’s School of Foreign Languages, initiated a signature campaign for a...
July 29, 2018
Citizens' Square
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
Shenzhen Workers Demanding to Form Labor Union Achieved an Initial Victory
In this account, the authors, workers at Jasic Technology Co., Ltd. In Shenzhen state that the company has treated employees badly for a long time, and that, as a result, workers demand to establish a labor union as a way to protect their rights and to protest the maltreatment. But, according to...
July 22, 2018
Citizens' Square
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
HRIC Statement on Tashi Wangchuk
[Delivered at a rally jointly organized by the U.S. Tibet Committee, Dokham Chushi Gangdruk of New York and New Jersey, Regional Tibetan Youth Association of New York and New Jersey, and Students for a Free Tibet, NYC] Human Rights in China protests and condemns the prolonged-detention and...
January 8, 2018
Statement
Li Xiaoling Case Update: Li is Arrested for “Picking Quarrels and Provoking Troubles”
On September 14, lawyer Lin Qilei met with his client Li Xiaoling at the Zhuhai No.1 Detention Center, and was told Li had been arrested on September 12 for allegedly “picking quarrels and provoking troubles.” Li is a rights defender from Zhuhai, Guangdong. Li Xiaoling developed an eye condition...
September 14, 2017
Citizens' Square
Urging the 19th Party Congress to Oust Xi Jinping and Fully Implement Structural Political Reform
Since the 18th Party Congress in 2012, human rights have deteriorated, the rule of law has regressed, torture has increased, and the number of wrongful incarcerations has grown dramatically—Beijing rights defender Yu Wensheng states in an open letter. Yu says that since Xi Jinping came to power...
October 18, 2017
Citizens' Square
Yu Wensheng

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