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Jun 17 2019 8:33AM
On 16 June, London in solidarity with #HongKong 倫敦撐香港 “Release the students! Carrie Lam resign! Withdraw! No withdrawal no settlement！釋放學生！林鄭下台！撤回惡法！不撤不散！” #NoChinaExtradition #反送中 https://twitter.com/shaojiang/status/11403460118078996...
Jun 12 2019 1:07PM
Dear MP, I am writing to bring your attention about both the content and the short consultation period allowed for the proposed changes to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance (often referred to as Extradition Law) and the Mutual Legal Ass...
Jun 5 2019 5:37PM
On Tuesday the 4rd of June, 8pm-10pm, aorund 250 people including many young people gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in London to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Beijing June 4 Massacre, showing solidarity with Tia...
Jun 4 2019 6:22AM
1. Screening of 'The Man who Defied Beijing' 30 May 2019, 6 - 8 pm Free Word, London Organised by Reporters without Borders https://freeword.org/event/advance-screening-of-the-man-who-defied-beijing/ 2. Tiananmen Panel 31 May 2019, 8 p...
May 23 2019 10:08AM
To mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 pro-democracy movement and the bloody massacre on 4 June, we will be holding a candlelit vigil at the Chinese Embassy in London on Tuesday 4 June, 8–10 pm. We reiterate our demands on the Chines...
Apr 8 2019 5:43PM
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 Nation...
Dec 15 2018 7:17AM
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 importan t chance to examine the Chinese political system and its influen...
Dec 9 2018 6:11PM
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 N...
Jul 15 2018 5:32PM
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 Vi...
Jul 12 2018 9:03PM
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....
Jun 6 2018 1:49PM
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...
May 21 2018 10:22AM
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 massac...
May 5 2018 5:39PM
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...
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...
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About me
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).
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