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Who’s Afraid of China? Not Hong Kong
The early morning of April 10, 2011, was not quiet for long in Hong Kong’s Western District as people began to congregate in front of the police station there. Activists unrolled large green and white banners in Chinese and English.
February 1, 2012
China Rights Forum
Unexpected Opportunities for NGO Work
There are two main points I would like to make, which are based on my own experience in running an en
February 1, 2012
China Rights Forum
The Power of Archives in Human Rights Advocacy
Perhaps you all have read about the following story that happened in Guatemala. During the 36-year civil war that ended in 1996, thousands and thousands of people had been executed, and made to disappear by the national secret police. For years, human rights advocates had tried to nail down those...
February 1, 2012
China Rights Forum
HRIC Hong Kong Roundtable: Discussion Part One
Emily Lau (Hong Kong Legislative Council, China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group) :
February 1, 2012
China Rights Forum
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
A Blind Man Thinks and Sees Things More Clearly than Chinese Professors
Translation and Abridgment by Human Rights in China
November 16, 2011
China Rights Forum
Chen Guangcheng
“So Free, So Rich, So Beautiful!”—Missing Wang Lihong
[Translation by Paul Mooney, Abridgment by Human Rights in China] It has been more than 100 days since Wang Lihong lost her freedom. It’s really an unimaginable thing. She and I live in the same world, but Lihong not only is being held in a detention center, but has also been formally arrested. She...
July 1, 2011
China Rights Forum
Surviving an Assassination Attempt in Prison
[Translation and Abridgment by Human Rights in China] While serving time in Shandong’s Tengzhou Prison, at one point I lost contact with my family for 140 days. On October 19, 2009, I called my wife, Jiao Xia, and told her the “mystery of my disappearance” in the Tengzhou Prison. As it turned out,...
November 16, 2011
China Rights Forum
In Defense of a Free Press: Remembering Imprisoned Journalist Qi Chonghuai on World Press Freedom Day
[Translation and Abridgment by Human Rights in China]
November 16, 2011
China Rights Forum
Qi Chonghuai: A Chronology
February 7, 1965 Born in Zoucheng, Shandong Province. 1993–1995 Worked at odd jobs at Health News , Dashichang Bao , and Technology News in Jining, Shandong, where he learned to write and edit news articles.
November 16, 2011
China Rights Forum

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