Rights Defenders

Notice of Execution of Reeducation-Through-Labor

On October 30, 2012, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau for the Administration of Reeducation-Through-Labor issued this Notice of Execution of Reeducation-Through-Labor for Shanghai activist Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤).

October 30, 2012

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Reeducation-Through-Labor

Mao Hengfeng

Certificate of Release

On October 31, 2012, the Yangpu District Detention Center in Shanghai issued this Certificate of Release which released Shanghai rights defender Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤) from detention.

October 31, 2012

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Rights Defenders

Mao Hengfeng

Complaint by Lawyers on Qin Yongmin’s Enforced Disappearance

In this complaint submitted to the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the lawyers Xiao and Guo say that the CPC’s 18th Congress has ended but Wuhan dissident Qin Yongmin is still missing. They accuse the Qingshan District Public Security Bureau in Wuhan of illegally restricting Qin Yongmin’s personal...

December 4, 2012

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Rights Defenders

Qin Yongmin

I Was Illegally Detained for Eight Hours on December 1, 2012

Veteran rights defender Guo Feixiong says that in order to prevent him from going to a legal seminar where friends of his were attending, Guangzhou police detained him for eight hours on trumped-up charges, including “selling fake alcohol” and “disturbing public order.” Guo says that he has been...

December 2, 2012

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Arbitrary Detention

Guo Feixiong

Chinese Petitioner Ye Mingfeng Return to China from Thailand

Fujianese petitioner Ye Mingfeng (叶明锋) appeals (Chinese only) for international attention as he fears retaliation from Chinese authorities after being extradited from Thailand to China. Ye had fled to to Thailand to escape Reeducation-Through-Labor, but was arrested about three months ago. He...

November 29, 2012

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Rights Defenders

Ye Mingfeng

Two Articles by Shanghainese Activist Feng Zhenghu, Now in 9th month of Illegal House Arrest

Shanghainese rights defender Feng Zhenghu (冯正虎) has been confined to his home by 24 guards since February 27, 2012. He estimates that by October 30, those guards had cost the authorities some 2.4 million yuan [about $600,000]. Feng’s house arrest began in advance of the “Two Sessions” of the...

October 30, 2012

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Rule Of Law

Feng Zhenghu

Decision on Reeducation-Through-Labor

The decision (Chinese only) orders Shanghainese petitioner Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤) to serve one year and six months of Reeducation-Through-Labor for "disrupting social order.” The Committee cites as reason Mao’s participation in public activities in Shanghai on January 5 and July 1, 2012, that...

October 30, 2012

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Reeducation-Through-Labor

Mao Hengfeng

“My House Arrest Begins Again”

In this message , Xu Yonghai, a member of the Divine Love Fellowship of the Beijing Christian House Church, recounts a visit by the police who told him not to leave home in advance of and during the 18th Party Congress beginning Nov. 8.

October 24, 2012

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Rights Defenders

Xu Yonghai

Mao Hengfeng Criminal Detention Notice

On September 30, 2012, Shanghainese rights defender and petitioner Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤) was intercepted and returned to Shanghai. She was subsequently criminally detained on suspicion of "gathering a crowd to disturb public order." She is currently held at the Yangpu District Detention Center.

October 2, 2012

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Family Planning

Mao Hengfeng

Open letter protests police brutality against two independent candidates in Xinyu, Jiangxi Province; account of incident

The open letter (in Chinese) says that on September 19, Liu Ping ( 刘萍) and Wei Zhongping ( 魏忠平) , rights defenders and independent candidates for the People’s Congress in Xinyu, Jiangxi, were detained, strip-searched, verbally abused, and beaten by the local police in an 11-hour-long ordeal. The...

September 22, 2012

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