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If Chen Xi Is Guilty, Then So Am I
An essay by a member of the Guizhou Human Rights Symposium on Chen Xi’s (陈西) arrest and charge of endangering national security for publishing essays online supporting human rights. Mi states that as freedom of expression is protected by the China’s Constitution, and that what the authorities did...
December 22, 2011
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Chen Xi
On Rights Activist Zuo Xiaohuan
A profile of Zuo Xiaohuan (左晓环) , a Sichuan rights activist, written by fellow activist Huang Xiaoming. Zuo was detained by the Mianyang Municipal Public Security Bureau on May 28, 2010, and formally arrested on November 19, 2010, both on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power. Eighteen...
October 12, 2011
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Huang Qi
Warning to the Shaoyang Local Government: Stop Persecuting Li Wangyang Right Now!
This appeal (CH), by Zhang Shanguang ( 张善光) of the Hunan Citizens online forum , to the Shaoyang government to provide redress and social benefits to Li Wangyang (李旺阳), who was imprisoned for 21 years for political reasons. The appeal gives the account of Li Wangyang, a worker-leader in the 1989...
September 24, 2011
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Li Wangyang
Defend the Law and Give Me Back My Right to File a Complaint
[Feng Zhenghu] In this article (CH), the Shanghai-based rights activist and law educator Feng Zhenghu (冯正虎) explains the importance of a citizen’s right to file a legal case and the urgency of the fight for this right. In early 2011, Feng complied and published “ I Want to File a Complaint: A...
September 27, 2011
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Feng Zhenghu
Guangdong Dissident Barred from Leaving His Locality
[Luo Yongquan] Domestic security officers ordered Luo, a dissident, not to leave the city of Nanxiong, Guangdong, and forced him to return a train ticket he had already purchased for a trip to Zhuhai in order to find work.
August 1, 2011
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Luo Yongquan
Petitioner Recounts Being Held in a Black Jail for 50 Days
Xu Shunmei (徐顺妹) , a petitioner from Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, had attempted to petition in Beijing to reveal the seizure of her village’s land by local government through the collusion between local government officials and businesses. She recounts in this video, which is in Chinese, her...
July 12, 2011
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Xu Shunmei
Feng Zhenghu Summoned for Interrogation, Home Searched
[Feng Zhenghu] The noted Shanghai-based rights defender had his home searched again and was summoned by the police for interrogation on suspicion of “deliberately disturbing the social order by other means.” The police took away a computer, the 11th of Feng’s computers confiscated in police...
June 15, 2011
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Feng Zhenghu
Facing State Violence – Extend Your Loosened Fists
A self-published memoir of a decade-long struggle to recover family home and possessions. [IN CHINESE]
June 8, 2011
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Wo Wo
Notes from a Hearing on Land Rights in Sanshan, Nanhai District, Guangdong
On June 3, the Nanhai District People’s Court in Guandong held another hearing of the case brought by farmers of Sanshan Island in Nanhai against their local government for its failure to make public land agreements from 1992. At the hearing, Tian Li, a legal aid volunteer for the Chinese Citizens...
June 3, 2011
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Jian Lan
To My Brothers, My Heroes
[Jasmine Rally Suppression] Since February 2011, many rights activists have been harassed, arbitrarily detained, disappeared, or placed under "residential surveillance." Some of them have been released but are not allowed to speak out. Rights defender Liu Shasha wrote about their experiences in...
May 26, 2011
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Liu Shasha

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