Bu Dongwei, a Falun Gong practitioner who worked for the US-based NGO, the Asia Foundation, is serving two and a half years Re-education Through Labour (RTL) at the Tuanhe facility in Beijing. What did he do? He exercised his right to freedom of religious belief. With no trial, he was sent to RTL...

Seven of eight Falun Gong practitioners, [Liang Wenjian (f), aged 39; Lin Zhiyong (m), aged about 40, her husband; Li Dongmei (f); Wang He (sex unknown); Wu Jiangyan (sex unknown); three others (names unknown)], have reportedly been assigned to two years’ “Re-education through...

Bu Dongwei, aged 38, also known as David Bu, was assigned to two-and-a-half years’ “Re-education through Labour” (RTL) on 19 June in connection with his activities as a member of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. He is detained at an undisclosed location, and Amnesty...

Liu Yawen, aged 56, Falun Gong practitioner, a member of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement,was reportedly detained on 31 March. She is being held incommunicado and interrogated at the Xuanwu District Detention Centre in Beijing, and is at risk of torture or ill-treatment. She appears to be...

Amnesty International has compiled records of 33 prisoners of conscience currently detained for Internet offences. This document includes ten appeal cases for 16 prisoners who are either political activists or Falun Gong practitioners, and two people who have died in custody as a result of torture....

This document summarizes some of Amnesty International’s key human rights concerns on China, including: the increased use of the death penalty during the ‘strike hard’ campaign; an intensification in the crackdown on the Uighur community in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region...

This briefing summarises Amnesty International’s concerns about the major developments in the human rights situation in China. These include the increasing use of the death penalty in the “strike hard” campaign against crime, the crackdown on the Falun Gong movement and the...

Set-backs to China’s new criminal procedure law, which came into effect on 1 January 2013, are legalizing violations of human rights, and the limited improvements to the law are not being respected, Amnesty International said in a new briefing released today. “It is frustrating that after so many...

This document provides details of two appeal cases. Amnesty International considers Mao Hengfeng to be a prisoner of conscience and human rights defender and is calling for her immediate and unconditional release. Amnesty International is concerned by reports that she has been repeatedly subjected...