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Brother of Cheng Yuan, Detained Changsha Legal Advocate, was Summoned with a Blank Summons
In a September 2, 2019 Twitter post titled, " Being Summoned for the Second Time ,"* Cheng Hao, the brother of detained Changsha activist Cheng Yuan, provides an account of his being summoned again by the Zhonghuamen police station in Nanjing. According to his account, three police officers came to...
September 2, 2019
Citizens' Square
Complaint Filed by Wife of Cheng Yuan, One of Three Detained Changsha Rights Activists
On July 22, 2019, Cheng Yuan, Liu Yongze and Xiao Wu, three public interest law advocates of Changsha Funeng Organization, were seized by Changsha Municipal Bureau of State Security on suspicion of “subversion of state power” and have been detained in its detention center. Shi Minglei, Cheng Yuan’s...
August 3, 2019
Citizens' Square
HRIC Urges Michelle Bachelet to Support the People of Hong Kong
In a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, Human Rights in China urges her to speak out publicly, strongly, and unequivocally to support the people of Hong Kong in their demand for the full withdrawal of an extradition bill that has triggered, over recent weeks,...
June 28, 2019
HRIC Bulletin
Hong Kong Timeline 2019-2022: Anti-Extradition Protests & National Security Law

A timeline of the developments surrounding the extradition amendments introduced by the Hong Kong SAR government, which triggered a series of mass demonstrations, including a march of an estimated two million people on June 16, 2019, the largest in Hong Kong’s history.

“We’ll strike you dead in one blow”: Jiang Tianyong Threatened by Domestic Security
Jin Bianling (金变玲), wife of human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong (江天勇) ,says in a Twitter post that in recent days, Jiang Tianyong’s family has suffered sharply increased monitoring and harassment by domestic security personnel from the Luoshan County Public Security Bureau, in Xinyang City, Henan...
April 4, 2019
Citizens' Square
Jiang Tianyong
Four Sichuan Dissidents in the “Remembering June Fourth" Case Will Be Tried in Court Consecutively Starting Tomorrow
Liu Tianyan (刘天艳) , wife of dissident Fu Hailu (符海陆) —who is accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” for creating a wine bottle label in 2016 to mark the anniversary of June Fourth—posted this essay one day before his trial. She points out that Fu had in fact already been imprisoned for...
March 31, 2019
Citizens' Square
Fate of Lawyer Jiang Tianyong and Family Again Exposes True Face of China’s Totalitarian Regime
Under intense international anticipation of the release today from prison of prominent rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong ( 江天勇) , who was convicted of the trumped up charge of “inciting subversion of state power,” the Chinese authorities have instead disappeared him. His supporters outside the Henan...
February 28, 2019
Statement
Jiang Tianyong
Asking For Truth and Accountability - For the tragedy of October 8, 1993
In 1993, Liu writes, his wife, Huang Ping (黄萍), was carried away by a sudden surge at the waterfall at the Huangguoshu Scenic Area in ​Guizhou Province. Liu says that his investigation showed that the deluge was created by officials of the Huangguoshu Scenic Area Management Office who, without...
October 16, 2018
Citizens' Square
Update on Wang Quanzhang—No “Hard Violence”
Wang Quanzhang, a rights lawyer, finally met with a lawyer after having been disappeared for more than three years. The lawyer, Liu Weiguo, reported that that Wang told him that he has suffered “no hard violence.” In the article below, Wang’s wife Li Wenzu reminds us what “no hard violence” means...
July 20, 2018
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Regarding Lawyer Wang Quanzhang’s Case of Alleged “Subversion of State Power”
Lawyer Wang Quanzhang was disappeared in July 2015, in the beginning stage of the 709 crackdown in which more than 300 lawyers and activists were affected—disappeared, detained, or questioned. Subsequently, all of the detainees were either prosecuted and sentenced or released—except lawyer Wang...
July 18, 2018
Citizens' Square
Wang Quanzhang

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