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From Stability Maintenance and Control to Wiping Out
[Translation by Human Rights in China] The ongoing nationwide crackdown of activists in China has brought bad news every day. Within three weeks, more than 60 intellectuals and rights defenders have been detained. Among them are rights protection lawyers Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强), Liu Shihui (刘士辉), Tang...
July 25, 2014
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Hou Xin
CRF 2014.1 Photo Credit
25 Years after June Fourth Cover Collage HK TST Canton Road Harbour City LV , 18 December 2008 Photo Credit: Maizeam 25 Years after June Fourth Cover Collage Factory in China , September 2008 Photo Credit: High Contrast 25 Years after June Fourth Cover Collage Cena de Estado que en honor del Excmo...
July 25, 2014
China Rights Forum
Holding on to Freedom on Hong Kong’s Long Road to Democracy
[Translation by Human Rights in China] In the 1970s, an article in Undergrad —a periodical published by the Student Council of the University of Hong Kong (HKU)—resonated with many people with its description of Hong Kong as a “free yet undemocratic” city. Although people argued over whether Hong...
July 25, 2014
China Rights Forum
An Introduction to the Chief Executive Electoral Reform Debate
Background Seventeen years after China’s resumption of sovereignty over Hong Kong, the former British colony has returned to the spotlight. The debate over reforms to the process for selecting the city’s next Chief Executive in 2017 has reached fever pitch. Democracy advocates are rallying behind...
July 25, 2014
China Rights Forum
Remembering Our Friend Du Dongxu on Tomb Sweeping Day
[Translation by Human Rights in China] When fellow families of June Fourth victims published the open letter to Two Congresses earlier this year, they, sadly, had no choice but to move Du Dongxu ( 杜东旭 ) , a name respected by everyone, from the signature section to that of deceased members. Mr. Du...
July 25, 2014
China Rights Forum
Ding Zilin
Can Lawyers Build a Legal Complex for the Rule of Law in China?
Weiquan— rights defense—lawyering had two defining characteristics prior to the 2010-2011 crackdown on lawyers and civil society activists. First, weiquan lawyers were high-profile in their style of lawyering and did not shy away from political issues. They courageously accepted cases that other...
July 25, 2014
China Rights Forum
It’s Like Being Cut with a Knife in the Heart
[Translation by Human Rights in China] We had long known that there was a university student—Gong Jifang—who was killed, but her family had always refused our requests for information and to visit them. Our trip this year to visit victims’ families outside of Beijing gave us another chance to try...
July 25, 2014
China Rights Forum
My Good Son’s Death Was Unjust!
[Translation by Human Rights in China] On June 3, 1989, Li Ping and his classmates found out that classes would resume the following week. That night, he and several classmates flagged down a truck in front of the university. They wanted to go to Tiananmen Square to have a look. But the truck had...
June 17, 2014
China Rights Forum
A Tombstone of Rock
[Translation by Human Rights in China] October 3, 2013, we took the train to Bayan Nur city in Inner Mongolia. After 14 hours of travel, we arrived in Linhe District at 3:40 a.m. Ren Wenlian’s younger brother warmly received us. Ren Wenlian’s Father, Ren Jinbao. Ren Wenlian’s father, Ren Jinbao (...
July 25, 2014
China Rights Forum
The EU’s Human Rights Dialogue with China: Quiet Diplomacy and its Limits – A Book Review by Sophie Richardson
Underestimating Bad Faith It’s been a quarter of a century since the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in China, one of the events that spurred governments around the world into putting human rights on their foreign policy agendas. And since that time, diplomats, activists, scholars, and others have debated...
July 25, 2014
China Rights Forum

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