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Exile in My Own Country – A Letter to Domestic Security Officer Li in Beijing

By Yang Zili, published: December 13, 2014 The Transition Institute researcher is on the run, and his letter provides clues (or no clues) about the recent detention of Guo Yushan and other TI personnel. – The editor Dear Officer Li, This is Yang Zili (杨子立), a veteran employee of Transition Institute (传知行社会经济研究� [...] Keep reading »

Family Files Petition to Redress the Case of Dr. Wang Bingzhang

By China Change, published: November 30, 2014 Eleven years into Dr. Wang Bingzhang’s life sentence for “terrorism” and “espionage,” his family marshalled on, against all odds, to try to free the man who pioneered the Chinese overseas democracy movement in early 1980s. In their latest move, the family filed a petition with the Guang [...] Keep reading »

Lawyers Describe Trial of Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng

By China Change, published: November 28, 2014 Guo Feixiong (郭飞雄) and Sun Desheng (孙德胜) were tried November 28, 2014, at Tianhe Court in Guangzhou, for “allegedly gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place.” The trial began at 9am and, after 18 hours, concluded shortly before 3 am on November 29. The court will annou [...] Keep reading »

Young IT Professional Detained for Developing Software to Scale GFW of China

By China Change, published: November 12, 2014 A 31-year-old Chinese IT professional named Xu Dong (许东, @onionhacker) was detained on November 4th by Beijing police for “picking quarrels and creating disturbances,” according to tweeted posted by Chinese activist Wu Gan (吴淦), better known by his online ID “Butcher” (屠 [...] Keep reading »

Shen Yongping’s Indictment

Published: October 27, 2014 Shen Yongping (沈勇平) is a documentary maker living in Beijing best known for making One Hundred Years of Constitutionalism (《百年宪政》) (trailer in Chinese), now available on YouTube. He was detained in April of this year, and charged with illegal business operations. His trial will be held at 9:30 am [...] Keep reading »

Ilham Tohti’s Statement after Receiving a Life Sentence for Allegedly “Separatist” Crimes

By Ilham Tohti, published: September 25, 2014 On Wednesday, September 24, 2014, lawyer Li Fangping met with Ilham in Urumqi Detention Center, Xinjiang. Ilham signed a 15-page appeal to be submitted by his lawyers. Meanwhile Li Fangping recorded Ilham’s statement: My outcries are for our people and, even more, for the future of China. Befor [...] Keep reading »

Press Statement by Wife of Gao Zhisheng, on 9/8/2014

Published: September 12, 2014 Geng He (耿和), wife of Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng (高智晟), held a press conference on September 9, 2014, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., appealing to the U. S. government and the international community to help bring Gao Zhisheng to the U.S. to receive medical treatment and r [...] Keep reading »

Wife Updates Gao Zhisheng’s Condition Since Release from Prison

China Change, published: September 1, 2014 Since Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s release from prison on August 7, we have learned that he is in poor health after enduring five years of solitary confinement without sunlight and malnutrition. On August, 27, Geng He (耿和), Gao Zhisheng’s wife who fled China in 2009 with their two ch [...] Keep reading »

China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group Urges Chinese Authorities to Safeguard Gao Zhisheng’s Freedom after Release from Prison

(The website of China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group is having some technical issue, and we are given permission to post this CHRLCG statement. – the editor) On August 7, 2014, the prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was released from prison, but denied contacts with outsiders and closely monitored by Chinese authoriti [...] Keep reading »