Yan Xin: Opposition and the Legitimacy of State Power
Writer and activist Lü Gengsong (吕耿松), a longtime advocate for the banned China Democracy Party,...
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China Dismisses Human Rights Day Statements
Last Saturday was Human Rights Day, the 68th anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of...
Chinese Rights Activist Joins List of Those Facing Subversion Charge
Edward Cody reports in today’s Washington Post: An activist who helped organize a petition complaining that Chinese want “human rights, not the Olympics” will be tried for inciting subversion against the state,...
China Frees Jailed Hong Kong Journalist (Updated)
Reuters and RTHK are reporting that Straits Times reporter Ching Cheong has been freed from prison: China has freed Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong reporter for Singapore’s Straits Times sentenced to five years for spying for...
In China, Uncovering Crime is Also One
The Chicago Tribune looks at two recent legal cases in China, those of corrupt official Wang Yuexi and imprisoned journalist Lu Gengsong, to examine the inherent contradictions in the current fight against corruption: So in...
Trial of Dissident Chinese Writer Lu Gengsong Opens As Curbs Tighten On Dissent – Benjamin Kang
From Reuters, via Christian Science Monitor: A Chinese dissident writer pleaded not guilty on Tuesday at the opening of his trial to charges of “inciting subversion of state power” over essays he wrote criticizing the state, his lawyer and his wife said. Lü Gengsong was detained last August. “Lü Gengsong penned 226 essays. In one […]
Trial Scheduled for Chinese Writer – Christopher Bodeen
From The Associated Press: A Chinese dissident writer who penned essays about local corruption will face trial next week on subversion charges, his wife said Friday. Lu Gengsong, who will appear Tuesday at No. 1 Intermediate Court in the eastern city of Hangzhou on Tuesday, was arrested late last summer and indicted on charges of […]
Dissenters Arrested and Beaten in China – Clifford Coonan
The Independent reports on how dissidents are spending their days in the run-up to the 17th Party Congress: Li Heping, a prominent lawyer, was reportedly abducted at the weekend by plain-clothed security officers who put a hood over his head and drove him in an unmarked car to a basement. He he was stripped and […]
China (Officially) Arrests Cyber-dissident – AFP
More than a month after he was “detained” by police in Zhejiang, Internet activist and anti-eviction crusader Lu Gengsong (ÂêïËÄøÊùæ ) has now been officially arrested and charged with a familiar crime. Via Google News: China has formally arrested writer and cyber-dissident Lu Gengsong, a former lecturer turned activist, on suspicion of subverting state power, […]
Chinese Cyber-dissident Held–rights Group – AFP
From AFP via inquirer.net: Chinese cyber-dissident Lu Gengsong, a former lecturer turned activist, has been detained by police in eastern Zhejiang province , a rights watchdog group said Sunday. Lu, 51, was picked up at his home on Friday in the city of Hangzhou as part of a crackdown ahead of this year’s Communist party […]
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