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A Beautiful China – Eighteen – Court Statement: For Freedom, Justice, and Love

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Elizabeth Lindley, November 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, [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Seventeen – Ngaba

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Elizabeth Lindley, November 17, 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, [...] Keep reading »

An Introduction to Dr. Xu Zhiyong

China Change, November 10, 2024 Born in 1973 in Henan province, Dr. Xu Zhiyong is a prominent political prisoner who is currently serving a 14-year prison term on bogus charges of “subversion of state power” in Lunan Prison in Shandong province. He has been on hunger strike since October 4 protesting the denial of his right to correspond with h [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Sixteen – Our Strength: A Message to Citizens

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Elizabeth Lindley, Joshua Rosenzweig, and Leo Timm, October 30, 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 “subverti [...] Keep reading »

Urgent: Citizens Movement Leader Xu Zhiyong on Hunger Strike in Protest of Inhumane Treatment in Prison

China Change, October 24, 2024 We’ve learned the worrying news that Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永), leader of the Citizens Movement and perhaps the most prominent dissident in China after the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, has been on hunger strike for twenty days as of October 23, protesting the extreme inhumane treatment that he has re [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Fifteen – On Nonviolence, Part Two

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Joshua Rosenzweig, October 23, 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, h [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Fifteen – On Nonviolence, Part One

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Joshua Rosenzweig, October 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, h [...] Keep reading »

A Beautiful China – Fourteen – Freedom, Justice, Love

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Leo Timm, September 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 had s [...] 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 »