Translation: Xia Lin Carries Something Precious
Rights defense lawyer Xia Lin has just been dealt a 12-year prison sentence for fraud, seeming...
by Anne Henochowicz | Sep 23, 2016
Rights defense lawyer Xia Lin has just been dealt a 12-year prison sentence for fraud, seeming...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 22, 2016
A Beijing court has sentenced prominent civil rights lawyer Xia Lin to 12 years in jail for fraud...
by Anne Henochowicz | Feb 23, 2016
Li Jingrui published the reflection on love and her political awakening translated below to her...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 15, 2015
Scholar and activist Guo Yushan, arrested in January for “illegal business...
by Sophie Beach | May 22, 2015
Amid ongoing arrests of civil society activists and proposed legislation that would limit the...
by Josh Rudolph | May 21, 2015
Overseas political news website Boxun obtained a purported memo from a telephone conference of the...
by Sophie Beach | May 14, 2015
In recent years, authorities in China have used the charge of “illegal business...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 5, 2015
Chinese Human Rights Defenders has published partial data on detentions of rights activists in...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 26, 2015
At The Guardian, rights lawyer Teng Biao writes that “China’s civil society has little cause...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 20, 2015
At The Atlantic, Matt Schiavenza describes the valuable work of foreign media organizations’...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 6, 2015
After being detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels” in October, scholar Guo...
by Meredith Godwin | Oct 17, 2014
As the protest movement in Hong Kong grinds on, police this week dismantled bamboo barricades and...
by Anne Henochowicz | Oct 15, 2014
As of October 15, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 12, 2014
Scholar Guo Yushan, who played an instrumental role in helping Chen Guangcheng escape his house...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 27, 2014
Following the imposition of a four-year prison sentence on Xu Zhiyong on Sunday, AFP’s Tom...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 14, 2013
South China Morning Post’s Amy Li reports online protest against the detention of...
by Samuel Wade | May 25, 2012
Largely silent since his departure from China, Chen Guangcheng has begun to speak out in interviews about his detention and escape, reiterating his hopes for an investigation of the Linyi local government and his fears for those...
by Samuel Wade | May 3, 2012
Chen Guangcheng’s story has continued to gain momentum, with the activist’s face and iconic dark glasses gracing the cover of this week’s Economist magazine (although Bo Xilai beat him onto the cover of TIME)....
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