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(Beijing—May 23, 2017) The youngest legal assistant arrested as part of a nationwide crackdown on human rights recently broke her silence to write an emotional letter to colleagues imprisoned with her, describing the enormous burden of the torture they endured and inviting them to join with her to end China’s abuses.
Tibetisches Zentrum für Menschenrechte und Demokratie (TCHRD), www.tchrd.org, 20. Mai 2017
Access to Justice (司法公正)
Taiwanese activist arrested for alleged subversion in mainland China
South China Morning Post, May 27, 2017
Guo Feixiong will soon be transferred to a prison again. His sister, after visiting him, conveyed his wishes: “I demand that in prison, [I] will have books to read, won’t have to kneel down, won’t be forced to perform labor, and won’t be beaten.”
Washington, D.C.—Torture methods use various apparatuses from simple rope to complex contraptions. The tiger chair is used to extract information or “crack” the detainee even if that means breaking his or her bones.
On the afternoon of July 19, Liu Xiaodong, the pregnant wife of China's prominent dissident Zhao Changqing's, along with their 4 year old son, Zhao Yaokun, arrived at San Francisco International Airport from Bangkok, Thailand.
