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Defenders of Lin Zhao’s Legacy Receive 5th Annual Promoting Progress in China Award
The 16 members of the Defenders of Lin Zhao’s Legacy have been announced as the recipients of the Fifth annual Promoting Progress in China Award from the Australia-based Qi’s Cultural Foundation. In their nomination for the Defenders of Lin Zhao’s Legacy, Hu Jie (胡杰), Ai Xiaoming (艾晓明), and Ai...
August 4, 2012
Article
Hu Jie
Ai Weiwei on Art and Society
“Contemporary Art in China Is Just a Part of Fashion” * An interview with Ai Weiwei, 2008 As the acclaimed 2012 documentary film “ Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry ” by Alison Klayman brings the story of Ai Weiwei’s activism to cinema audiences, HRIC presents an Engl
August 3, 2012
China Rights Forum
Writing for the Freedom of Others
Acceptance Speech, Kapuściński Award for Literary Reportage 2012 Warsaw, Poland, May 11, 2012
July 3, 2012
China Rights Forum
Our Land, Our People
An HRIC Conversation with Tenzing Rigdol Click here for a Tibetan version of this interview.
July 3, 2012
China Rights Forum
Tian Tian Xiang Shang – Every Day We Look Up
Danny Yung on Critical Thinking, Creativity, and Advocacy Arts A well-known expression from the 1950s, tian tian xiang shang — making progress every day
July 3, 2012
China Rights Forum
The Tea Drinker’s Guide
In a country without freedom and democracy, drinking tea is the only way to become a real citizen. “Drinking tea” usually refers to interviews with the police or state security because of your citizen actions or things you’ve said.
July 3, 2012
China Rights Forum
Tufu (Wu Gan)
Open Letter from Chinese Students Abroad to Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping in Advance of the 18th Party Congress
[Original Chinese posted online on May 30, 2012, on China in Perspective ]
July 3, 2012
China Rights Forum
Lawyer Xiao Guozhen’s Urgent Notice Regarding Imminent Detention and Censored Article
Xiao Guozhen, a Beijing lawyer, was summoned for a police interrogation, which she thought might be because of her lead role in forming a group of attorneys to investigate the purported suicide of activist Li Wangyang. She issued an emergency notice stating that she might be taken away and...
July 5, 2012
Citizens' Square
A Protest against Zhejiang Police College’s Political Persecution and Violation of My Rights as a Citizen
Online activist and writer Lü Gengsong (吕耿松) filed this complaint against the Zhejiang Police College with the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Public Security. Lü, who had been employed by the college in 1983-1993, details the college’s refusal to let him purchase the apartment that the college...
April 10, 2012
Public Appeal
If Chen Xi Is Guilty, Then So Am I
An essay by a member of the Guizhou Human Rights Symposium on Chen Xi’s (陈西) arrest and charge of endangering national security for publishing essays online supporting human rights. Mi states that as freedom of expression is protected by the China’s Constitution, and that what the authorities did...
December 22, 2011
Article
Chen Xi

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