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Five Legal Scholars Issue Opinion on the First Instance Verdict Convicting Xu Zhiyong of the Crime of “Gathering a Crowd to Disrupt Order in a Public Place” By Gan Peizhong (甘培忠, Peking University School of Law); Peng Bing (彭冰, Peking University School of Law); Yao Huanqing (姚欢庆, China Renmin University School of Law); Wang Yo [...] Keep reading »

Xu Zhiyong Appeals: Spare Any Talk about Rule of Law in China If the Second Instance Does Not Correct the Decision by the First Instance

Published: February 8, 2014 Xu Zhiyong submitted an appeal on February 3, 2014, in the Beijing Third Detention Center where he is currently detained. His reasons for appeal are as follows: I. The court of first instance decided that we had committed the offense of “gathering a crowd to disrupt order;” but we were simply exercising a [...] Keep reading »

Dissidents’ Human Rights and Civil Rights Are Inviolable

A Statement by Some Members of the Civil Rights Concern Group on the Unnatural Death of Xue Mingkai’s Father, Xue Fushun On January 29, 2014, after breaking free from the Qufu (山东曲阜) stability maintenance office’s unlawful custody, Xue Fushun (薛福顺), father of Shandong dissident Xue Mingkai (薛明凯), went to seek [...] Keep reading »

The Trial of Xu Zhiyong and China’s Political Reality

By Yaxue Cao, published: January 20, 2014 Four days before Dr. Xu Zhiyong’s arrest on July 16, 2013, a Chinese businessman named Zeng Chengjie (曾成杰) was executed. He was a private entrepreneur in Hunan province who financed his business by raising money from ordinary citizens, and he was put to death for having “more debt than asse [...] Keep reading »

Democracy Is My Love Affair – the Story of Zhao Changqing

By Gu Chuan, published: January 12, 2014 On April 17, 2013, my good friend Zhao Changqing was detained by the Beijing authorities for alleged “illegal assembly” as part of the crackdown on the New Citizens Movement. On May 24, he was officially arrested on charges of “illegal assembly.” Changqing has a baby son named “Little Elepha [...] Keep reading »

A Translation of Beijing Police’s Recommendation to Indict Xu Zhiyong for Asset Disclosure and Equal Education Right Campaigns

Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Opinion Recommending Indictment Beijing Public [Security Bureau] Indictment [Opinion] (2013) no. 99 The criminal suspect Xu Zhiyong is a male, ethnic Han, born March 2, 1973, a Beijing resident, Ph.D in law, citizen with no Party affiliation, and lecturer in humanities at the Beijing University of Posts an [...] Keep reading »

Chinese Author, Artist, and Dissident Streaking in Stockholm, Sweden

Our Naked Declaration December 10, 2013 We have come to Sweden to run in the nude, because it was here where Mo Yan, a defender of censorship and a senior Communist cadre, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last year. With our act, we want to remind this forgetful world that there is a staunch denouncer of censorship, a witness of the Tia [...] Keep reading »

Why Is a Math Professor at Wellesley So Hard Hitting against an Economics Professor Fired by Peking University in China?

By Yaxue Cao, published: November 25, 2013 To be sure, there is nothing wrong about a math professor—or a marine biologist, an astronaut, an alchemist, for that matter–speaking out against Professor Xia Yeliang, defending Peking University’s decision to fire the professor of Economics who “happens to be” a dissident and a critic of [...] Keep reading »

PRC–the Party Representatives of China–Does Not Pass the Minimum Test

By YANG Jianli, President, Initiatives for China, former political prisoner of China (2002-2006) Published: November 9, 2013 Last night, I was on the phone with Ms. Zhang Qing, the wife of Guo Feixiong (pen name for Yang Maodong). Guo, who was imprisoned from 2006 to 2011 for peacefully demonstrating in defense of [...] Keep reading »