Falun Gong practitioner Ouyang Wen began a two-year term of Re-education Through Labour (RTL) in June 2008. While in custody her eyesight began to deteriorate, ...
Businesswoman Du Yimin was sentenced to death in March 2008. Her appeal was rejected on 13 January 2009, and her sentence will now be reviewed by the Supreme People's ...
According to the US-based Radio Free Asia, Gao Zhisheng was taken away from his home in Shaanxi Province by more than 10 security agents on 4 February 2009. His ...
Beijing-based human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been under house arrest since November 2007, was taken into custody on or shortly after 19 January 2009. ...
On 7 January, legal activist Ji Sizun was sentenced by the Taijiang District People’s Court in Fuzhou, Fujian Province to three years’ imprisonment for “forging ...
Tibetan former monk Nami Jhaba was detained by police on 19 April 2008, and has been held incommunicado since then. Police recently returned some of his possessions ...
Prisoner of conscience Ji Sizun, from Fujian Province, was detained on 11 August in Beijing when he went to a police station to hand in an application to hold a ...