Prisoners of Conscience

Second activist sentenced on subversion charges after huge crackdown on rights campaigners in China

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST Veteran pro-democracy activist Hu Shigen jailed for 7½ years for subverting state  Jun Mai and Nectar Gan PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 03 August, 2016, 3:39pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 03 August, 2016, 11:23pm Hu Shigen, a veteran pro-democracy activist...
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Sens. Cruz and Cornyn send letter to Secretary Kerry calling for the release of Chinese human rights activist Guo Feixiong

UNITED STATES SENATE Sen. Ted Cruz Press Office   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cruz Press Office: 202-228-7561 Rachael Slobodien: rachael_slobodien@cruz.senate.gov Cornyn Press Office: 202-224-0704 Drew Brandewie: drew_brandewie@cornyn.senate.gov July 22, 2016 Sens. Cruz and...
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SOME QUESTIONS FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA TO ASK PRESIDENT XI

YANG Jianli   TENG Biao This week, China's President Xi, in Washington for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Summit, will also meet on the side with President Obama. Obama continues to visibly rely on Xi's professed commitments to the U.S., ranging from explicit to...
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Release Liu Xiaobo On Human Rights Day

  December 9, 2015 Rep. Chris Smith   On the eve of Human Rights Day, we gather here because China is in a race to the bottom with North Korea for the title of world's worst violators of human rights.  The hope that an economically prosperous and "rising China"...
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