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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,...
Jun 29 2017 11:42AM
A demonstration to call for immediate and unconditional release of the Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo and all other prisoners of conscience currently held in China; a solidarity action with the struggle for universal suffrage in Hong Kong.
Jun 4 2017 11:10PM
On Sunday the 4th of June, 7pm-10pm, around 70 people gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in London to commemorate the Prodemocracy Movement in1989. Participators highlighted ten stories of the citizens who were killed in the Mass...
Jun 1 2017 10:43AM
To mark the 28th anniversary of the 1989 pro-democracy movement, a candlelit vigil will be held outside the Chinese Embassy in London on June 4th. We will highlight the stories of the citizens who were killed in the Massacre by the arm...
Mar 24 2017 12:00PM
The article was originally published in Huffington Post on 3 September 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/shao-jiang/theresa-may-is-heading-of_b_11834004.html?utm_hp_ref=uk
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).