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The conference "Thirty Years since Tiananmen Square Massacre: Struggle for Democracy in China" will be held on 18 April, which will mark the day when students gathered in Tiananmen Square and delivered their Seven Demands to the...
On Tuesday November 6th, the UN Human Rights Council will review China's human rights record through the third cycle of Universal Periodic Review (UPR). It is an important chance to examine the Chinese political system and its...
London activists will gather at Chinese Embassy to mark Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70. 伦敦活动人士将在中国大使馆外纪念《世界人权宣言》七十周年 #UDHR70 #StandUp4HumanRights Venue: opposite the Chinese Embassy, 49-59 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL...
London marks 1st anniversary of the passing of Liu Xiaobo, calling for immediate & unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience currently held by the CCP. #LiuXiaobo #FreePrisonersOfConscience 刘晓波逝世周年伦敦祭奠，呼吁立即无条件 #释放所有良心犯 Viedo...
Activists will gather in front of Chinese Embassy to mark the 1st anniversary of the passing of Liu Xiaobo, calling for immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience currently held in mainland China and Hong Kong...
On Sunday the 3rd of June, 7pm-9pm, over 40 people gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in London to commemorate the Prodemocracy Movement in1989. Participators highlighted the citizens who were killed at Muxidi in the Massacre by...
On Sunday the 3th of June, 7pm-9pm, we will gather outside the Chinese Embassy in London to hold a candlelight vigil commemorating victims of the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. Protestors will mark the names of known victims of the...
According to the phone call from a friend of Liu Xia and late Liu Xiaobo on 30 April, Liu Xia said she is ready to die if she can’t leave China. A US diplomat told the media yesterday that Liu Xia’s movement and her right to leave...
Today marks the four anniversary of the death of Cao Shunli in state custody. It is essential and urgent that UK should adopt and enact Global Human Rights Accountability Bill. The bill will strive to guard against and prevent...
On 10 December 2017, over 100 activists gathered to mark #HumanRightsDay2017 at Chinese Embassy in London，calling for #FreePrisonersOfConscience #FreeLiuXia #FreeIlhamTohti #TashiWangchuk in cold and sleet weather. #國際人權日2017...
Yang Tongyan (杨同彦, a.k.a. Yang Tianshui 杨天水), a freelance writer and democracy veteran, has died aged 56 on 7 November 2017. In the past 11 months, at least three prisoners of conscience and political prisnoers including Peng Ming and...
Protesters will gather to mark International Human Rights Day 2017 at Chinese Embassy in London. Venue: opposite the Chinese Embassy, 49-59 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL Nearest tubes: Great Portland Street, Oxford Circus Date: Sunday...
Ahead of Human Rights Day, there have been major trends in human rights violations in Mainland China and Hong Kong. This past autumn, Yang Tongyan (a.k.a. Yang Tianshui), a freelance writer and democracy veteran, died of brain cancer...
The Chinese Noble Laureate for Peace Liu Xiaobo（刘晓波） has been sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment, in his 8th year in prison he was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Prisoners of conscience have deliberately been tortured by...
Dear Members of Parliament, In October 2015, the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will make an official State Visit to Britain. We, the undersigned, are calling on the UK government to uphold human rights...
To: EU Parliament, UK government, USA government, International Olympic Committee Over a hundred lawyers and activists in China have been detained, disappeared or questioned from 10 July. Seven of them have formally and criminally been...
On 21 October 2017, participants gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy, marking 100 days after the passing of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia’s missing for 98 days, calling for an end to Liu Xia's illegal house arrest, surveillance and...
21 October 2017 marks 100 days after the passing of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia’s missing for 98 days. A demonstration to call for an end to Liu Xia's illegal house arrest, surveillance and harassment, demand immediate and unconditional...
30 August marks 49 days after the passing of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia’s missing for 47 days. On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, a demonstration to call for an end to Liu Xia's illegal house arrest...
London week 6 memorial for #LiuXiaobo #FreeLiuXia 伦敦六七悼念 #刘晓波 #自由刘霞
About this blog
Shao Jiang, a former prisoner of conscience for his active role in the 1989 pro-democracy movement, is a committed activist-scholar, who lives and works in exile in London. The academic interests focus on politics and media, social movement, democratisation, feminism, law in PRC and Hong Kong, autonomy & sovereignty & self-determination, international human rights mechanisms, comparative studies on development models and political institutions, theory and practice of Civil Society. Publications include Citizen Publications in China before the Internet (Palgrave, 2015).