Detained Chinese Feminist Wins New Human Rights Honor

Wong Lok-to  |  Radio Free Asia Detained activist Su Changlan, who has been in pre-trial detention for more than two years, on Tuesday received a prestigious human rights award from a coalition of Chinese human rights groups. Su, 45, is the third recipient of the Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders, in honor […]

China to Try Tiananmen Protest Veteran After Months of Delay: Lawyer

Hai Nan  |  Radio Free Asia Chen Yunfei, a veteran rights activist in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan who was detained after visiting the grave of a Tiananmen massacre victim in 2015, will stand trial on Dec. 26 on public order charges following repeated delays to his case. Former Tiananmen Square protester Chen, 48, […]

China Finds Rights Lawyer Guilty, Says Will Be Released Soon

<!–[CDATA[Qiao Long and Yang Fan  |  Radio Free Asia A court in the Chinese capital on Tuesday handed down a guilty verdict and a suspended jail term to a prominent rights lawyer on charges of “incitement to ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination” and “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” after he fired off seven highly […]

China’s Persecution of Activists Worsens in 2014: Rights Group

<!–[CDATA[Joshua Lipes  |  Radio Free  Asia China’s persecution of human rights activists was “unusually severe” in 2014, according to a report released Monday by an overseas-based rights group, which said President Xi Jinping had intensified a campaign last year to “purge universal values” in the world’s most populous nation. Harassment of activists “was as severe […]

Founder of Chinese Human Rights Website Is Arrested

The founder of a human rights website and at least four writers of the human rights website 64 Tianwang, were arested.
It happened after the site reported on a self-immolation in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and a defacement of Mao’s portrait there.