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Thoughts on Ilham Tohti’s Arrest and Life Sentence Ten Years Ago

Marie Holzman, September 23, 2024 Ilham Tohti is the most renowned Uyghur public intellectual in the People’s Republic of China. For over two decades he has worked tirelessly to foster dialogue and understanding between Uyghurs and Chinese over the present-day repressive religious, cultural, and political conditions of the Uyghurs, a Muslim Turki [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Thirteen – The Citizens Movement

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Andréa Worden, August 28, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, he ha [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Twelve – China’s Path

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Joshua Rosenzweig, July 29, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, he h [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Eleven – Goodbye, Communism

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Leo Timm, July 25, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, he had served [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Ten – The Unavoidable Road to Freedom: My First Prison Term

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Leo Timm, July 22, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, he had served [...] Keep reading »

Speech on the 8th China Human Rights Lawyers Day

Yaxue Cao, July 3, 2024, London In the course of hundreds of interrogations of the 709 lawyers, an interrogator once said that the aim of the 709 case was to create a “hot stove effect” for the lawyers across China: they should know that the stove is burning hot, and they should not try to touch it. The irony there is that the tormentors were l [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Nine – The Citizens’ Alliance, or Gongmeng, Part Three

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Joshua Rosenzweig and Leo Timm, June 27, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Befo [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Nine – The Citizens’ Alliance, or Gongmeng, Part Two

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Joshua Rosenzweig and Leo Timm, June 25, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Befo [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Nine – The Citizens’ Alliance, or Gongmeng, Part 1