Internet Publisher Huang Qi Sentenced to 12 Years
Huang Qi, who became known as China’s first cyber dissident after his first arrest in 2000,...
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LatestMinitrue: No Unapproved Coverage of Huang Qi Trial
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Activist Huang Qi Put on Trial for “Leaking State Secrets”
Veteran online activist and citizen journalist Huang Qi went on trial in Mianyang, Sichuan, on...
Xinjiang Camps Scrutinized at U.N. Rights Review
In Geneva on Tuesday, China faced its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on human rights. UN...
Lawyer, Web Publisher Accused of Leaking Secrets
Rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong disappeared almost a month ago. The mystery surrounding his...
China Dismisses Human Rights Day Statements
Last Saturday was Human Rights Day, the 68th anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of...
Citizen Journalists’ Detentions May Foreshadow NGO Law
The founders of two rights-focused citizen journalism projects were detained last month amid...
Huang Qi Takes Farmers’ Land Fight Online
In 2000, activist Huang Qi was the first dissident to be arrested for online activities when he...
Four Detained for Reporting Tiananmen ‘Self-Immolation’
The Guardian reports that four have been detained, including human rights website Tianwang founder...
Volunteers Flocking to Quake Zone Asked to Turn Back
Since Saturday morning, when a 6.6Mw earthquake struck near Sichuan’s Ya’an city, thousands of volunteers from students and white-collar workers to Tibetan monks have descended on the affected area to offer...
Huang Qi on Blogging the Slow-Motion Revolution
Ian Johnson continues his New York Review of Books series of interviews with Chinese writers and thinkers by visiting activist Huang Qi in Chengdu. Huang, a human rights activist who uses his website 64tianwang.com to publicize...
Writers Honored for Free Expression Commitment
12 writers from China are among the 41 who received Human Rights Watch’s 2012 Hellman/Hammett grants “for their commitment to free expression and their courage in the face of persecution”. The organisation...
Reports of Mass Release of Petitioners Questioned
On Tuesday, Chengdu-based human rights group Tianwang reported that tens of thousands of petitioners had been released from Jiujingzhuan Relief Service Center, a “black jail” in Beijing. South China Morning Post...
Ai Weiwei (艾未未) on Citizenship and Freedom
The 1984 BBS is a private online forum that has over 7000 registered members in China. Ai Weiwei, who had just returned to his Beijing home from an international trip few days earlier, was a special guest for a one hour online...
China Quake Dissident Jailed for 3 Years
Huang Qi, an activist who investigated shoddy school construction after the 5.12 Sichuan earthquake in 2008, has been sentenced to three years in jail. From Washington Post: Chinese dissident Huang Qi was sentenced to three...
US House Backs China Quake Activists
From AFP: The US House of Representatives on Saturday threw its support behind two Chinese activists put on trial after investigating whether shoddy construction led to children’s deaths in last year’s Sichuan...
China Urged to Cancel Quake Trials
The New York Times reports on the prosecution of two men, Huang Qi and Tan Zuoren, who were detained while investigating the collapsed schools in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake: The trial of one man, Huang Qi, began Wednesday but...
Trial Of Chinese Dissident Ends Without Ruling
From AP: A state secrets trial of a Chinese dissident who criticized the government’s response to a massive earthquake last year ended Wednesday after half a day, with no immediate ruling, his wife said. About 50...
