Arbitrary Detention Shandong Police Interrogate Guards About Chen Guangcheng’s Escape, Determine Activist Escaped on His Own Hunan Activist Zhu Chengzhi Still Detained Incommunicado Beijing Authorities Detain Residents Over Demolition...

Contents • Arbitrary Detention ◦ Chen Kegui Remains Detained, Family Warned as Officials Offer Token Compensation ◦ Activist Song Ze Remains Held in Undisclosed Location ◦ UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Finds Chen Wei’s...

Amnesty Internatio nal Public Statement: Dozens still subject to enforced disappeara nce three years after crackdown on unrest in Urumqi

Top News • Controls Tighten Around Activist Feng Zhenghu: Feng Zhenghu, the activist who now has been under house arrest in Shanghai for four months, continues to face heightened harassment. Most recently,authorities cut down branches...

China Human Rights Briefing June 12-19, 2012 To download this week’s CHRB as a .pdf file, please click here Top News Authorities Maintain Suppression Over Deceased Activist Li Wangyang’s Friends, Family: Many friends and relatives of...

China Human Rights Briefing June 5-11, 2012 Top News • Shady Circumstances Envelope Death of Activist Li Wangyang: The death of Hunan activist Li Wangyang, a labor leader during the 1989 pro-democracy movement, was immediately met with...

Ref: TG ASA 17/2012.002 AI index: ASA 17/015/2012 To Wu Bangguo Weiyuanzhang Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress Quanguo Renda Changwu Weiyuanhui Bangongting 23 Xijiaominxiang Xichengqu Beijingshi...

Urgent Appeal for Credible Investigation into the Truth of Li Wangyang(李旺阳)’s Death Hunan labor movement leader Mr.Li Wangyang (李旺阳, see below for bio) was found dead in the morning of June 6th, 2012, in Daxiang Hospital, Shaoyang...

7 June 2012 China must investigate veteran dissident's death Activists have called for an investigation into Li Wangyang's death “ Li Wangyang was a tireless human rights campaigner who suffered at the hands of the government - his...

China Human Rights Briefing May 29-June 4, 2012 Top News • Authorities Suppress, Harass Citizens Around June Fourth Anniversary: As the Chinese government maintains a general policy of silence about the Tiananmen Massacre, authorities...

Photos June Fourth 2012 in London

On Monday the 4th of June, 8pm-10pm, protestors will gather outside the Chinese Embassy in London to hold a candlelight vigil commemorating victims of the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. Protestors will read out the names of known victims...

On the eve of the 23rd anniversary of the Chinese military’s violent suppression of peaceful demonstrators in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Amnesty International again calls on the government to hold an open and independent...

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, June 1, 2012) – For more than two decades, the Chinese government has pursued a policy of denial and silence regarding the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre: discussion of the massacre is systematically censored...

China Human Rights Briefing By CHRD May 23-28, 2012 Top News • Chen Guangcheng’s Relatives, Family Supporters in Tough Straits: Chen Guangfu, Chen Guangcheng’s brother tortured by Shandong police in April, recently fled Dongshigu...

Activist Feng Zhenghu's Illegal House Arrest Proves No Lessons Learned From Chen Guangcheng Abuses (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, May 24, 2012) – Two months before Chen Guangcheng (陈光诚) dramatically escaped from illegal house arrest...

China Human Rights Briefing: Special Edition May 22, 2012 Lawyers for Chen Kegui Challenge Local Police’s Unlawful Obstruction of Efforts to Defend Client CHRD has obtained a letter addressed to the police chief of the Yinan County...

China Human Rights Briefing: Special Edition May 16, 2012 Shandong Police Torture Chen Guangfu, Brother of Chen Guangcheng; Relatives Live in Fear CHRD has learned that Chen Guangfu (陈光福), the elder brother of activist Chen Guangcheng...

Top News • Harassment Rampant Against Individuals With Ties to Chen Guangcheng: The nephew of Chen Guangcheng has confirmed to be formally arrested, and lawyers, activists, and others are facing unabated harassment and rights abuses...