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Xie Yanyi, October 15, 2017
Xie Yanyi (谢燕益) is one of the twenty or so 709 detainees during China’s sweeping, still ongoing crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists. He was held incommunicado from, July 12, 2015 to January 18, 2017, in Tianjin. As a human rights lawyers, Xie Yanyi’s career spans from 2003 to the time when he was detained, representing dozens of cases involving religious freedom, freedom of speech, forced expropriation of land and property, corruption, local elections, political prisoners, and more. Meanwhile, he has been known for passionately advocating democratic transition in China. During the 553 days of disappearance, his wife gave birth to a baby girl, and his mother died without him knowing it. In September he posted a book titled “A Record of 709 Crackdown and 100 Questions about Peaceful Democracy in China” in which….
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Little-Known Chinese Lawyer Disbarred for Defending Freedom of Speech
Yaxue Cao, October 3, 2017 Early in September the Justice Department of Shandong province notified Zhu Shengwu (祝圣武), a 36-year-old lawyer in Jinan, the…
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News About Uighur Scholar Ilham Tohti on the Third Anniversary of His Sentencing: No News
China Change, September 22, 2017 We believe that the combination of reduced visits, denial of communication, gag orders, and family reprisals, have been carefully engineered…
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In Search of Better Digital Protection for Human Rights Defenders In China
Safeguard defenders, September 19, 2017 Among the many revelations into the systematic repression of the human rights community to have come to light…
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China Pushes ‘Human Rights With Chinese Characteristics’ at the UN
Andrea Worden, October 9, 2017 In January 2017, after his success at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Xi Jinping traveled to…
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Taiwan Out of the UN: Unfair to Taiwan and Harmful to Global Interests
Yang Jianli, September 22, 2017 Recently, the long detained Taiwanese citizen and human rights activist Lee Ming-che appeared in a bogus trial in…
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A Comprehensive Bibliography of Liu Xiaobo’s Writings
Hermann Aubié, September 5, 2017 During the eight and a half years that Liu Xiaobo spent in Jinzhou prison, only intermittent attention…
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Notes From Prison (Part Two of Two)
Meng Han, October 11, 2017 Continued from Part One Governmental Dysfunction and NGO Work In our time of great changes, the term…
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Notes From Prison (Part One of Two)
Meng Han, October 10, 2017 On December 3, 2015, Guangdong police raided a series of labor NGOs in the Pearl River Delta area, detaining…
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Interview With Yu Zhijian, One of the ‘Three Hunan Hooligans’ Who Defaced the Portrait of Mao Zedong Over Tiananmen Square in 1989, Part Two
Liao Yiwu, June 2, 2017 (Continued from Part One) LIAO: I’ve heard some people say that if they had known blood was…
