Prisoners of Conscience

NBC News By Adrienne Mong BEIJING—A year ago today, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, a writer and activist imprisoned in a northeastern Chinese prison. Today he remains in jail for the crime of “inciting subversion of state power,” serving out an...

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...

 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...

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,...