Black and White Cat translates an article from Southern Weekend about the rape of a petitioner in a “black jail” in Beijing. From the introduction: Last week’s edition of Southern Weekly (Aug. 6) carried an...
Read MoreMelissa Chan of Al Jazeera reports on black jails, or secret jails, in Beijing: Wang Songlian, the research director of China Human Rights Defenders, told Al Jazeera that some facilities in Beijing functioned as centralised...
Read MoreFrom RFA: A man who tried to lodge a complaint against official corruption in his hometown in the central Chinese province of Hubei was detained in one of a growing number of “black jails” or unofficial detention...
Read MoreOn April 10, civil rights lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were sentenced to 14 and 12 years in prison, respectively, on charges of “subversion of state power” after closed door trials in Linshu County, Shandong. The charges...
Read MoreProminent pro-democracy campaigner Joshua Wong was arrested on Thursday, his third arrest since June of 2019 when he was last released from prison. He was charged with illegal assembly for his alleged participation in an...
Read MoreIndependent journalist and #MeToo activist Sophia Huang Xueqin has been in state custody for over two months, without access to friends or family. She was detained by the Guangzhou police on October 17 on charges of “picking...
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The following interview with Magnus Fiskesjö, conducted and written by Jichang Lulu, has been...
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In Geneva on Tuesday, China faced its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on human rights. UN...
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In recent months, the collapse of China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) loan industry has eradicated the life...
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Rights lawyer, civil society activist, and New Citizens’ Movement founder Xu Zhiyong left...
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