Protests And Petitions

Police Violence at the Letters and Visits Office of the Ministry of Public Security

[Ye Jinghuan] Ye Jinghuan (野靖环), a Beijing petitioner and rights defender, describes his beating by police when he, along with nine others, went to petition at the Letters and Visits Office of the Ministry of Public Security. The police also subjected three fellow petitioners to body search before...

November 30, 2011

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Police Brutality

Ye Jinghuan

Wang Lihong’s Criminal Verdict

[Wang Lihong] On September 9, 2011, Beijing rights activist Wang Lihong was sentenced to 9 months in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles.” On April 16, 2010, Wang organized a protest for the Three Netizens on trial after they exposed a police cover-up of a rape and murder. The...

September 9, 2011

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Corruption

Wang Lihong

Workers’ Legitimate Rights Must Not Be Infringed Upon

On July 20 and 21, 300 workers from the Guizhou Dazhong Rubber Company held a sit-in to protest their bosses’ embezzlement of government resources and exploitation of workers’ interests, and to ask the authorities to address the problems. On July 20, the authorities sent an official to the protest...

July 21, 2011

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Protests And Petitions

Application for a Permit to Hold a Demonstration to Assert Rights and Call for Political Reform

[Translation by HRIC] To the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau: Chinese citizens Wu Yilong, Chen Shuqing, Zhu Yufu, Mao Qingxiang, Zhu Zhengming, and Wang Rongqing submit this application to this honorable bureau [for a permit] for a demonstration to assert rights and call for political...

November 30, 2010

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