Chinese Rights Activists Win Prizes
France and Germany awarded Chinese activist Li Wenzu a rights prize on Wednesday. The two governments claimed Li had made an “exceptional contribution” to human rights in China
China’s Rights Activists Face Torture, Detention, ‘Disappearance’: Report
Tam Siu-yin and Shi Shan | Radio Free Asia China’s human rights activists continue to speak out on behalf of victims of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s abuses of power, despite the threat of arbitrary detention, torture, and forced ‘disappearance,’ an overseas rights group said on Thursday. “2018 was another year of harsh reprisals against […]
Beijing’s Hand Seen in Visa Issue Keeping Rights Activists Out of Religious Freedom Conference
RFA’s Cantonese and Uyghur services Some notable civil rights activists, known to be a thorn in side of the People’s Republic of China. blamed Beijing’s influence for visa troubles that kept them out of Taiwan for an international conference on religious freedom this week. Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who has worked on human rights […]
‘China’s Gandhi’ Jailed For Five Years in Guangzhou Three Verdict
Yang Fan | Radio Free Asia Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Friday handed down jail terms of up to five years to the “Guangzhou Three” rights activists for subversion, after they sought to launch a civil disobedience campaign to protect human rights. The Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court sentenced former rights lawyer […]
Germany's Angela Merkel Meets With Rights Activists, Dissidents During China Trip
<!–[CDATA[Xin Lin | Radio Free Asia German Chancellor Angela Merkel wrapped up a two-day visit to China on Friday after meeting with nine human rights activists and political dissidents. The Chancellor, who is currently under fire in Europe over her open-border policy on refugees, met with a group that included human rights lawyers, writers, and […]
Source: Chinese Police Orchestrated Raid in Burma to Seize Bao Zhuoxuan, Son of Rights Activists
<!–[CDATA[ Matthew Robertson | Epoch Times The security operation to detain Bao Zhuoxuan, the 16-year-old son of prominent Chinese rights activists, carried out on the Burmese border with China, was orchestrated by Chinese police, according to a source familiar with the situation. Section leader Liu of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Inner Mongolia, the […]
Chinese Rights Activists Step Up Calls For Action Ahead of President's Trip
<!–[CDATA[Yang Jiadai and Lin Ping | Radio Free Asia As Chinese President Xi Jinping gears up for his first state visit to the United States since assuming the presidency in 2013, calls are growing for U.S. and Chinese officials to make meaningful progress on human rights following a series of harsh crackdowns by his administration […]
More Than 1,000 Supporters Call For The Release of Rights Activist
More than 1,000 people who say they are victims of China’s draconian family planning policies have signed a public petition calling for the release of rights activist Yang Zhanqing, who had campaigned extensively to help them.
Guizhou Rights Activists Targeted by Police After Support For Beijing Poet
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou are targeting rights activists after some of them gathered in a public square and planned to donate money to a jailed poet who showed support for the democracy movement in Hong Kong.
Disappeared Beijing Journalist ‘Silenced’ Ahead of Anniversary
Gao Yu, an independent journalist from Beijing and a two-time winner of the International Women’s Media Foundation “Courage in Journalism Award”, disappearance.
Gao wasn’t shown up at an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the military crackdown on the 1989 student-led pro-democracy and had been out of contact since then