Issues are growing over the fate of human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi, with his wife raising issues that he might have been tortured throughout his time in the Linshi Detention Center in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong. Ding has actually been rejected consent to consult with either family members or a lawyer because his […]

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Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu have actually handed a four-year prison term to human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng on subversion charges. Yu was sentenced by Jiangsu’s Xuzhou Intermediate People’s Court after it discovered him guilty of “incitement to subvert state power” in a secret trial. The sentence follows Yu was held for […]

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Authorities in the Chinese capital have actually arraigned an Australian scholastic and author for espionage after holding him incommunicado for 7 months without any access to an attorney or family gos to, triggering sharp criticism from Canberra. Yang Hengjun, an outspoken Australian author and political analyst who previously held Chinese citizenship, was required to Beijing […]

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Three United Nations human rights experts have actually revealed “tomb issue” over the fate of three human rights lawyers by force vanished by the Chinese authorities after going to a casual conference of dissidents in the southeastern port city of Xiamen in December. Ding Jiaxi, Zhang Zhongshun and Dai Zhenya are currently being held without […]

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