Guangdong Province Guangzhou Municipality Tianhe District People’s Procuratorate Indictment  Tianhe Procuratorate  public criminal indictment [2013] No. 2242   Defendant Liu Yuandong, male, born March 30, 1978, ID number 44142419780330****, Han ethnicity, undergraduate university education, place of household registration: Guangdong provin [...] Keep reading »

Translation of a report by the Chinese service of Radio France Internationale, originally published on December 20, 2013.     On December 20, Yang Jinzhu, Wang Xing, Ling Qilei and Zhou Ze, defense participants in the “New Citizens Movement” in Beijing, made a joint call for trying their cases together as one trial. In this series of [...] Keep reading »

Published: December 25, 2013     Recently, a number of parents who do not have Beijing household registrations, or hukou, have been  frequently questioned by the police for their involvment in the education fairness campaign. The police even asked them to testify against Xu Zhiyong who is charged with “gathering a crowd to disrupt publ [...] Keep reading »

Beijing Municipal Haidian District People’s Procuratorate Indictment Beijing Haidian [District People’s] Procuratorate Criminal Indictment [2013] no. 2933  Defendant Ding Jiaxi, male, born August 17, 1967, in Yidu County, Hubei Province, ID number: 110108196708179712, Han ethnicity, post-graduate education, is a lawyer at Beijing Dehong Law Fi [...] Keep reading »

Beijing Municipal People’s Procuratorate, No. 1 Branch Indictment   Beijing No. 1 Branch [People’s] Procuratorate Criminal Indictment [2013] no. 306 Defendant Xu Zhiyong, male, born in Minquan County, Henan Province, on March 2, 1973, ethnic Han, ID card number: 620102197303025316, post-graduate education, is a lecturer at the Beijing Univers [...] Keep reading »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Originally published: November 19, 2013 On 15 November 2013, in its ‘CCP Central Committee Resolution Concerning Some Major Issues in Comprehensively Deepening Reform,’ debated and passed at the 18thCongress Third Plenary Meeting, the CCP announced that it would ‘abolish the Re-education Through Labour System, perfect the laws for punishment [...] Keep reading »