Archive for the 'torture' Category

Breaking News – Unjustly treated Dalian resident tortured to death

Posted by Daniel Teng on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
 
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On the morning of May 4th local time, a Dalian petitioner in Liaoning province, Chuo Jia, risked his life to intercept the vehicle of Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, at Dongjiao Minxiang in Beijing. He stopped the premier by putting his petitioning materials in the front of the vehicle. He was subsequently detained in Dongjiao Minxiang [...]

Breaking News – Falun Gong Practitioner Died Due to Persecution

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, February 28th, 2008
 
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According to Minghui Net’s report on the 27th of February, Falun Gong practitioner Bai Yingjie from Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province died due to long-term persecution by the authorities on the 30th of August, 2007. It was learnt that Mr Bai was continually harassed and threatened by the local police station at his home after being [...]

Qing Zhang writes open letter to George W Bush regarding human rights in China

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, January 10th, 2008
 
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On the 9th of January, Qing Zhang, wife of renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Feixiong Quo, sent an open letter to US President George Bush. The letter exposed the tortures suffered by Feixiong Guo during his 14 months of imprisonment, as well as advising of Guo’s hunger strike, which began on the 13th of December [...]

Petitioners expose sinister jail in Shun Ping

Posted by Daniel Teng on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
 
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Following the revelation by some Mainland petitioners to SOH reporters of a sinister jail located in Fang-shan District of Beijing, now another villainous prison in Shun-Ping has been exposed. According to a petitioner who used to be detained there, the jail is located in a remote mountainous area where officers in charge are from the [...]

Edge on China 63 – Headlines from China

Posted by Ben Smith on Monday, December 31st, 2007
 
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This week, 50 year old farmer aquitted after 10 years in Jail, Hong Kong surges toward true democracy, and a Special update on the Chinese performance, Holiday Wonders. Last week a fifty years old farmer, Hao Jinan, from China’s Henan province, left the jail where he was held for nearly 10 years on false charges. [...]

Edge on China 62 – Headlines from China

Posted by Ben Smith on Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
 
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In this bulletin 63 year old human rights activist to spend 3 years in jail, Taiwanese Vice President condemns organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, and up to a million Chinese threaten an Olympic boycott Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d550′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

Edge on China 60 – Headlines from China

Posted by Ben Smith on Monday, December 10th, 2007
 
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In this episode of Edge on China, toxic chemicals found in Chinese food exports, human to human bird flu transmission fears arise, and China forces Miss Tibet out of beauty pageant. In the latest scare over the safety of Chinese exports, one of China’s largest and most well known food companies has halted exports of [...]

Breaking News – Wife of Guo Fei-Xiong says she will not be kept silenced

Posted by Erin Toirkens on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
 
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On November the 25th, the day before implementation of the sentence on Guo Feixiong, a renowned Chinese dissident, his wife Zhang Qing, and lawyer Mo Shaoping accepted an interview with Sound of Hope Radio Network reporter. Qing expressed that the case against her husband is a clear illustration for the true face of the judicial [...]

Breaking News – Pressured by the Communist regime, Foreign Minister Downer Signed Certificate to Intervene with Torture Case

Posted by Erin Toirkens on Saturday, November 24th, 2007
 
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Being pressurized by the Communist regime, Australian Foreign Minister Alexandra Downer issued a certificate under the Foreign States Immunities Act on the 15th of November, with an intent to intervene the court decision in issuing a default judgement in the event of the defendant’s absence in a lawsuit case filed by Falun Gong practitioners against [...]

Breaking News – The Australian judiciary system pressured to halt lawsuit against Chinese official.

Posted by Erin Toirkens on Saturday, November 17th, 2007
 
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On November the 13th 2007, the Attorney General Department of Australia took an interest and tried to intervene in the lawsuit case filed by Falun Gong practitioners against Chen Shao-Ji, the Chairman of Guangdong Provincial Politics and Consultation Committee, the former Director of Guangdong Provincial Politics and Law Committee after they received a letter from [...]