China Jails Tiananmen Protest Veteran For Four Years After Grave Visit
Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia A court in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Friday handed down a four-year jail term to a veteran rights activist detained after visiting the grave of a 1989 Tiananmen massacre victim in 2015, finding him guilty of a public order offense. The Wuhou District People’s Court in […]
Veteran Democracy Activist Tracked Down to Wuhan Detention Center
Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia Disappeared’ Chinese democracy activist Qin Yongmin is being secretly held at a police-run detention center in the central city of Wuhan, RFA has learned. Qin’s whereabouts were unknown since he went missing in Jan. 19, 2015, amid unconfirmed reports that he had been tried in secret on charges of […]
Veteran Shenzhen Rights Activist Gets Three Years For 'Subversion'
<!–[CDATA[Yang Fan and Xin Lin | Radio Free Asia Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Tuesday handed down a three-year jail term for subversion to a Shenzhen-based rights activist who helped ordinary people petition the government over violations of their rights, his lawyer said. Yang Mingyu, better known by his pseudonym Yang […]