The Australian: Chinese dissident lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s family defects to US
THE family of Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been tipped for a Nobel Peace Prize and disappeared weeks ago, has defected to the US.
The Comment Factory: The story of William Huang, Falun Gong and human rights activist, imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese Communist dictatorship
William (Kui) Huang is one of the people who spent their youth cutting open [pistachio] nut shells with pliers. During an interview he told me that he had to work at least sixteen hours a day. The work was done in Cell No. 27 of Zhuhai 2nd Detention Center, which…
Forget Not the Beijing Olympics’ Victims
It is now clear that the Beijing Olympics Games did not help to improve human rights in China. On the contrary, unknown thousands of innocent people have fallen victim to the Beijing Olympics. Knowing that it had the Olympics secured, the Chinese regime not only refused to honor the promise…
Urgent Appeal: Elderly Tianjin Resident Sentenced to Labor Camp for Distributing Falun Gong Leaflets, at Risk of Torture
An elderly resident of the city of Tianjin was sentenced earlier this month to over one year in a labor camp after police found her distributing leaflets about Falun Gong. She is one of 15 local adherents sentenced in recent months to this particular camp and is at grave risk…
Amnesty International: Chinese prisoner of conscience Bu Dongwei released
After two long years of imprisonment and Amnesty International campaigning, Chinese prisoner of conscience Bu Dongwei was finally released on 18 July 2008. Bu Dongwei was serving time in a 're-education through labour' facility for allegedly possessing Falun Gong materials. For fear of again be detained or harrassed in Olympic…
