More than three decades after pledging to “reform and open up,” there are few signs the Chinese Communist Party intends to change its authoritarian posture. Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, who will remain in power until 2022 and possibly beyond, the outlook for fundamental human rights, including freedoms of expression, assembly, association and religion, remains dire. (more…)
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Jailed Chinese rights activist Guo Feixiong has now been on hunger strike in Guangdong’s Yangchun prison for more than a month, sparking renewed fears for his deteriorating health, lawyers and relatives told RFA. (more…)
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Liu Dejun is a Chinese human rights defender who began his human rights works by educating migrant workers in a factory in Guangzhou about their rights and Chinese labour laws. He was subsequently fired, after which he started to write essays about human rights and democracy for online publication. He set up a NGO providing legal assistance and education to migrant workers and the following year he was detained for ten days after giving out leaflets in Guangzhou calling for political reform. In 2009 he turned his attention to the rights of petitioners in Beijing and was involved in a number of high profile human rights cases. In 2010 he was abducted by the police in the middle of the night, beaten up, driven a mountainous area in the suburbs of Beijing and dumped on a roadside. The artist Ai Weiwei later made a documentary (Chinese only) about these events. (more…)
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Please spread it. But Xi Jinping (Chinese communist party’s president) won’t give him justice. Twitter @distxste:#helpTingKunDing, My Dad recently found this note folded up in socks bought from Primark,please help spread the word!
周峰锁：中文媒体还没有报道，推友@distxste 的父亲在袜子里发现了一封来自安徽灵璧县丁延坤的求救信。他因为实名揭发当地政府腐败，夫妻被关押致残，其父自杀身亡。大庙乡沙滩村六组。推特上被上千次转发，求证详情。
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A Beijing people’s high court today finally heard journalist Gao Yu’s appeal against the seven-year jail sentence she received in April on a charge of divulging state secrets. Police turned away journalist and diplomats who tried to attend because the court decided to hold the hearing behind closed doors. (more…)
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Seit drei Jahren will die Chinesische Kommunistische Partei die absolute Macht ergreifen, damit sie die Gesellschaft vollständig kontrollieren kann. Weil die KPCh immer sagt, „Dass die (…) Mitwirkung des Volkes nur im Rahmen der Vorgaben der Souveränen Kommunistischen Partei erfolgen kann“[1]. Deshalb wurden mehr als 300 Dissidenten und Menschrechtsaktivisten von dem Kommunistischen Regime verhaftet und viele Menschenrechtsorganisationen wurden geschlossen. Jetzt sind die Menschenrechtsbewegungen und die Demokratie-Bewegungen in China fast handlungsunfähig. (more…)
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