Liu Xiaobo's case shows harsh Chinese sentencing trend for freedom of expression
Sarah Cook : "When Chinese democracy activist and author Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison last week, many around the world appeared stunned by the length of his sentence and...
Jailed China rights activist awarded top EU human rights prize
Hu Jia , a Chinese human rights activist convicted in April on charges of inciting subversion of state power , was awarded the Sakharov Prize on Thursday by the European Parliament...
The Beijing Judicial Bureau has refused to renew the licenses of a number of Chinese human rights lawyers before a Saturday deadline, a China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group official said Friday. The bureau originally...
Lawyers in China are subject to increasing persecution and intimidation by the Chinese government, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report found that rights lawyers working on cases...
China rights activist convicted of subversion denied appeal: lawyer
A lawyer for Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia , sentenced in early April to over three years in prison on charges of inciting subversion of state power , said Thursday...
Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia was sentenced Thursday to 3.5 years in prison on charges of inciting subversion of state power . Hu's trial began last month; he was...
The trial of Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia began Tuesday on charges of inciting subversion of state power . Hu was formally charged last month after he made public ...
Chinese prosecutors plan to proceed to trial against human rights activist Hu Jia and the trial could begin within a month, a defense lawyer for Hu said Saturday. Hu was formally charged last month with inciting subversion of state...
China human rights lawyer missing, thought detained: rights group
Chinese rights activist Teng Biao has disappeared and is thought to have been detained by state authorities, rights group China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group said Friday. Teng, a lawyer with close ties to civil rights activist...
Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia has been formally arrested and charged with inciting subversion of state power, his lawyer said Friday. His lawyer said that Hu's father had been allowed to visit Hu in jail recently, marking the...
