Liu Xiaobo’s Case

Speech at We Have a Dream: Global Summit against Discrimination and Persecution

By: YANG Jianli Sept. 21, 2011, New York Dear friends, today we live in a land of shadows. Stark shadows cast by what is worst in us on what is best. In 1945, as one of the worst convulsions of violence in the history of mankind drew to a close, the United Nations was...

UN Panel Calls for Immediate Release of Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo

New York correspondent reports having received information from human rights activist Dr Yang Jianli that the U.N. Working Groups on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) for Liu Xiaobo and his wife, Liu Xia, has issued opinions requesting the Chinese Government to release Liu...

Three Concerned Chinese Citizens Will Embark on a 3000 Mile Human Rights Cycling Tour

PRESS RELEASE Mengbi Yang, 24, from Beijing; Wenbin Mu, 38, from Hubei; and Dongcheng Li, 43, from Fujian, three Chinese citizens who are concerned about two men who were arrested by the Chinese government, Artist and activist for human rights and democracy in China,...

IFC Will Present Open Letter to UN Secretary General on June 4, 2011

On June 4, 2011 Initiatives for China will present an Open Letter to UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon regarding the Chinese government’s serious and on-going human rights violations against its own people Open Letter to the Secretary-General of United Nations...