Skip to content Skip to navigation

Dissidents

Appeal Decision on Zhang Qi’s Case
On May 15, 2012, Chongqing dissident and Chinese Pan-Blue Alliance leader Zhang Qi (张起) was released from Yuzhou Prison after having served a four-year sentence. Zhang was detained on May 16, 2008, formally arrested on June 20, 2009, and convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” on July 7,...
October 28, 2009
Citizens' Square
Zhang Qi
After 15 Days in Detention, Dissident Qin Yongmin Calls Off Interviews for 2012
Veteran dissident Qin Yongmin (秦永敏) was administratively detained for 10 days during the 2012 NPC/CPPCC Sessions by the Qingshan District Public Security Bureau in Wuhan, Hubei; he was then illegally detained an additional five days. Qin was illegally deprived of his right to meet with his family...
March 20, 2012
Article
Qin Yongmin
Statement by Zha Jianguo on Zhu Yufu’s Heavy Sentence
[Zhu Yufu] In the statement (in Chinese), the Beijing-based dissident Zha Jianguo denounced the heavy prison term given to Zhu Yufu, the Zhejiang based dissident who was sentenced to seven years in prison and three years of deprivation of political rights for “inciting subversion of state power.”...
February 12, 2012
Public Appeal
Zhu Yufu
Criminal Verdict for Zhu Yufu, Convicted of Inciting Subversion of State Power
[Zhu Yufu] On February 10, 2012, the Zhejiang based dissident was sentenced to seven years in prison and three years of deprivation of political rights. The verdict states that he committed the following crimes: First, he operated as a member of the illegal China Democratic Party to fundraise for...
February 10, 2012
Document
Zhu Yufu
Chen Wei Taken to Prison ahead of Schedule; Wife Describes Authorities’ Despicable Tricks to Block Family Meeting
[Chen Wei] Sichuan dissident Chen Wei, recently sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment on for "inciting subversion of state power," was taken to prison before meeting with his family, a meeting that the authorities had promised to grant. Wang Xiaoyan, Chen's wife, said that not being able to see...
January 9, 2012
Document
Chen Wei
Guangdong Dissident Barred from Leaving His Locality
[Luo Yongquan] Domestic security officers ordered Luo, a dissident, not to leave the city of Nanxiong, Guangdong, and forced him to return a train ticket he had already purchased for a trip to Zhuhai in order to find work.
August 1, 2011
Article
Luo Yongquan
Police Search Qin Yongmin’s Home
Noted dissident Qin Yongmin recounts that in the five months since he has been released from prison, Wuhan Police and State Security authorities have used enforcement measures such as summons and searches against him six times. This is also the second time they've searched Qin’s home within two...
April 28, 2011
Article
Qin Yongmin
A Thank-you Note to the World Voices Festival of International Literature and Mr. Rushdie
Because Salman Rushdie wrote The Satanic Verses , Iran's Ayatolla Khomeini tried to kill him by putting a $5,000,000 reward on his head. This was in the 1980s, when I was still a young poet, and it was the first time I had heard his name. I was deeply shocked. Even though I cannot cross the ocean...
April 25, 2011
Open Letter
Liao Yiwu
Chinese Authorities Detain Former June Fourth Prisoner Wu Gaoxing after Open Letter
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that freelance writer Wu Gaoxing (吴高兴) , a former June Fourth prisoner, was taken by the police from his home in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, at around 10:00 a.m. on May 30, 2009. Wu is one of the five signers of a recent open letter to President Hu Jintao...
June 1, 2009
Press Work
Tiananmen’s Most Wanted—Where Are They Now?
Compiled by Stacy Mosher Activist Then Now Wang Dan A history student at Peking University, and an organizer of the Beijing Students Autonomous Federation, Wang was arrested on July 2, 1989, and on January 26, 1991, was sentenced to 4 years in prison on charges of counterrevolutionary
May 26, 2004
China Rights Forum

Pages

Subscribe to Dissidents