Hong Kong residents marched the streets on Wednesday on the 12th anniversary of the handover of the territory to China. Demonstrators protested issues ranging from democratic elections to the performance of Chief Executive Donald Tsang to bank governance, with police estimates putting the crowd at 26,000. Organizers said the figure was 76,000, and that turnout [...]
Thousands of students in Nanjing clashed with local police following alleged police brutality towards student vendors. According to the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, five student vendors with the Nanjing University of Aeronautics were beaten by officers as they tried to remove them from the campus on Monday evening. Students demonstrators [...]
An exiled Chinese dissident who was involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has been held in China for six months without charge since trying to enter the country to visit his family last October. Zhou Yongjun left China for New York after serving two years in prison for his role in the protests, which [...]
Reuters – A military doctor who became a national hero for blowing the whistle on the government’s cover-up of the 2003 SARS epidemic has asked the government to apologize for his detention. Jiang Yanyong was put in an army “guesthouse” and spent months under house arrest in 2004 after detailing his experiences treating victims of [...]
Beijing has rounded up dissidents just days before its human rights record is reviewed by a UN panel. On Friday, officers stationed outside a government building in the capital detained at least members of a loosely organized group of 30 who had traveled to Beijing seeking redress for a variety of problems related to local [...]
Three Nobel Prize laureates as well as a string of scholars and human-rights activists are among those who have petitioned Chinese President Hu Jintao to release Liu Xiaobo, a leading dissident. In the letter, dated Monday, 150 people call on Hu to “honor your commitment to ensure the civil rights of citizens who peacefully express [...]
China will draft its first “national action plan” on human rights to propose ways to “expand democracy and strenghen the rule of law.” The plan will be drawn up by a panel including government officials and legal and human rights experts. The scope and specific details for plan were not available. Observers say the announcement [...]
