[English translation by Human Rights in China] Report submitted to the 17th session of the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Country: The People's Republic of China Submitter: Rights Campaign, a non-governmental organization in China Date of Submission: March 1...

Rights defender Cao Shunli ( 曹顺利) , who has been missing since September 14, has been pressing the Chinese government in recent years to include the participation of petitioners and rights defenders in a process that affects the entire Chinese society: improving human rights. She has focused her...

The group announces it will provide rights defense support to two lawyers, Sui Muqing and Lin Qilei, by soliciting an additional two rights defense lawyers to help defend Sui and Lin’s legal rights to meet their client, Guo Feixiong.

Ni Yulan, October 5, 2013 Ni Yulan and Dong Jiqin, October 7, 2013 Housing rights advocate Ni Yulan ( 倪玉兰 ) left the Beijing Women’s Prison around 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 7, 2013, after completing a two-year-and six-month sentence for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles.” According to...

Sources told Human Rights in China that on the morning of October 3, more than a dozen petitioners and rights defenders, including a 77-year-old woman, engaged in a sit-in in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were taken by police to the Chaoyangmenwai Police Sub-station (朝阳门外派出所) for...

Sources told Human Rights in China that the September 29 trial of Jiangsu citizen Gu Yimin ( 顾义民 ) for “inciting subversion of state power” ended without a verdict. The trial was conducted at the Changshu Municipal People’s Court in Jiangsu Province.

The author cites Liu Xiaofang, a supporter of Cao, who received the information from Wei Shuying, a participant of the sit-in in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in June and July 2013 requesting citizen participation in the drafting of the National Human Rights Report. According to Liu, Wei...

On the second day of a two-day review, the PRC delegation responded to detailed questions posed by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, often citing formal law and statistics, and, at times, with anecdotal personal stories. Questions from the experts on the Committee covered numerous areas,...

Sources told Human Rights in China that Gu Yimin ( 顾义民) , of Changshu City, Jiangsu Province, will be tried on Sunday, September 29, for “inciting subversion of state power,” in the Changshu People’s Court. Gu, 37, was detained on June 1 and formally arrested on June 14 after he posted online...

Cao Shunli, a Beijing rights defender who had been actively calling for public participation in China’s international human rights reporting to the UN, has been missing since September 14. Cao’s younger brother has reported her disappearance at the local police sub-bureau. In this statement the...