Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Human Rights Defenders (人权卫士)

六四天网两记者取保 警方审讯指名黄琦“问供” (Human rights website journalists released on bail, police interrogation targets webmaster Huang Qi)
Radio Free Asia, April 8, 2014
www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/ql2-04082014111105.html

伊力哈木.土赫提的女儿到美国国会作证 (Illham Tohti's daughter testifies before U.S. Congress)
Voice of America, April 8, 2014
www.voachinese.com/content/china-human-rights-20140408/1889249.html

Related:
Jailed academic Ilham Tohti’s daughter slams China's treatment of Uygurs before U.S. Congress
Agence France-Presse, April 9, 2014
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1471287/jailed-academic-ilham-tohtis-daughter-slams-chinas-treatment-uygurs-us

再有前往建三江律师遭拦截 国际特赦要求中国当局彻查事件 (More lawyers obstructed from going to Jiansanjiang, Amnesty International requests thorough investigation by Chinese authorities)
Radio Free Asia, April 4, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/sy-04092014100945.html

For more information, see:
Post Reeducation-Through-Labor "abolition": lawyers and defenders monitor legal reform implementation--the Jiansanjiang case
"废除"劳教: 律师和维权人士监督法律改革实施--建三江案
Human Rights in China, April 2014
EN: www.hrichina.org/en/post-reeducation-through-labor-abolition-lawyers-and-defenders-monitor-legal-reform-implementation
CH: www.hrichina.org/chs/fei-chu-lao-jiao-lu-shi-he-wei-quan-ren-shi-jian-du-fa-lu-gai-ge-shi-shi-jian-san-jiang

“新公民运动”成员丁家喜李蔚出庭受审 (New Citizens Movement members Ding Jiaxi and Li Wei tried by Beijing court)
British Broadcasting Corporation, April 8, 2014
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2014/04/140408_china_trials.shtml

律师丁家喜案开庭:做有态度的公民 (Human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi goes on trial)
Deutsche Welle, April 8, 2014
dw.de/p/1BddW

More anti-graft activists tried in China
Agence France-Press, April 8, 2014
www.enca.com/world/more-anti-graft-activists-tried-china

For more information, see:
Lawyers dismissed or withdrawn in protest of unfair trials of three citizen activists
Human Rights in China, January 31, 2014
http://www.hrichina.org/en/press-work/hric-bulletin/lawyers-dismissed-or-withdrawn-protest-unfair-trials-three-citizen

Citizen activists on trial 2014: schedule/status and essays
Human Rights in China, April 7, 2014
http://www.hrichina.org/en/citizen-activists-trial-2014-schedulestatus-and-essays