On Tuesday, International Human Rights Day, spokesperson Hua Chunying mounted a familiar defense of China’s rights record at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ regular press conference: Q: It’s the Human Rights...
Huang Qi, who became known as China’s first cyber dissident after his first arrest in 2000,...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Veteran online activist and citizen journalist Huang Qi went on trial in Mianyang, Sichuan, on...
In Geneva on Tuesday, China faced its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on human rights. UN...
Rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong disappeared almost a month ago. The mystery surrounding his...
Last Saturday was Human Rights Day, the 68th anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of...
The founders of two rights-focused citizen journalism projects were detained last month amid...
In 2000, activist Huang Qi was the first dissident to be arrested for online activities when he...
The Guardian reports that four have been detained, including human rights website Tianwang founder...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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