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Mar 18 2018 2:24PM
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 extrajud...
Jan 21 2018 10:27AM
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 超过1...
Jan 21 2018 10:26AM
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...
Dec 10 2017 8:17AM
P rotesters 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: Sunda...
Dec 6 2017 11:51PM
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 t...
Dec 6 2017 11:10AM
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 th...
Dec 6 2017 11:09AM
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 princi...
Dec 6 2017 10:56AM
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...
Oct 22 2017 3:50AM
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 haras...
Oct 21 2017 7:20AM
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 rel...
Oct 21 2017 1:40AM
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, survei...
Aug 23 2017 5:41PM
London week 6 memorial for # LiuXiaobo # FreeLiuXia 伦敦六七悼念 # 刘晓波 # 自由刘霞
Aug 20 2017 10:22PM
London in solidarity with prisoners of conscience in Hong Kong 倫敦聲援香港良心犯
Aug 16 2017 11:17PM
London week 5 memorial for # LiuXiaobo # FreeLiuXia 伦敦五七悼念 # 刘晓波 # 自由刘霞 https://twitter.com/shaojiang/status/897939623904673794
Aug 13 2017 9:28PM
A total of 100 interviews: sympathize (10), disapprove (0), Refuse to answer (69), Don't know (21) 伦敦唐人街华人微型民调 四七悼念 #刘晓波 #自由刘霞 反对 0，赞同 10，拒答 69，没听说 21，总计100
Aug 13 2017 9:28PM
He’s cancered/murdered, she’s been disappeared, London will not keep silent. 他被病逝，她被失踪，伦敦不会沉默。#LiuXiaobo #FreeLiuXia 三七公祭 #刘晓波 #自由刘霞
Aug 13 2017 9:27PM
A vigil to remember Liu Xiaobo, call for Liu Xia’s freedom, immediately and unconditionally all prisoners of conscience currently held in China; Venue: opposite the Chinese Embassy, 49-59 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL Nearest tubes: G...
Aug 2 2017 11:38AM
August 2 will be the 21st day since the passing of Liu Xiaobo, the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to die in state custody since Nazi Germany. Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison for co-drafting and promoting Charter 08, a ma...
Jul 11 2017 7:21AM
Please write to your MP and Prime Minister Theresa May, demanding that the Prime Minister and the Parliament of the UK urge China to release immediately and unconditionally the Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, and allow L...
Jul 5 2017 3:38PM
A demonstration to remember the 2009 Urumqi Massacre, commemorate those civilians who have been imprisoned and killed, search for Uyghurs forcibly disappeared post 5 July 2009. Venue: opposite the Chinese Embassy, 49-59 Portland Place,...
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).