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The Observer: Where Next for China as the New Generation of Leaders Take Power?
From Tania Branigan in the Observer , “ Where Next for China as the New Generation of Leaders Take Power? ”: The seventh congress would not take place until 1945, at the Communist rebel base in Yan'an, just before the end of the Japanese occupation and the resumption of war with Chiang's forces.
September 29, 2012
HRIC in the Media
Beijing Municipal People’s Procuratorate Branch No. 1 -- Indictment
December 10, 2009 Criminal Indictment (2009) No. 247 Beijing Municipal People’s Procuratorate Branch No. 1 Defendant Liu Xiaobo: male; born December 28, 1955; identification number 210203195512285575; PhD education; Han ethnicity; unemployed; registered residence: 2-1-2 No. 5 Qingchun Street,...
April 9, 2010
China Rights Forum
Liu Xiaobo
June Fourth Overview

June Fourth refers to the June 3-4, 1989 government military crackdown that ended the large-scale, peaceful protests in Beijing and other cities that spring and early summer. Despite persistent citizen demands for the truth and an accounting of the bloodshed, the authorities have offered nothing beyond their characterization that the protests were “counterrevolutionary riots”—a  label they later changed to “political disturbance” (政治风波)—which “the Party and state suppressed by using decisive measures.” (党和国家采取果断措施平息).

The People Speak Out about the Nobel Peace Prize in Words and Pictures
January 26, 2011
China Rights Forum
Liu Xiaobo
September 2006: Local Elections
Following are translated highlights from the September 2006 issue of Ren Yu Ren Quan . A printer-friendly PDF version is available for download . The full Chinese-language issue can be read at http://www.renyurenquan.org . The Ren Yu Ren Quan editors can be contacted at RYRQeditor[a]hrichina.org .
September 1, 2006
Renyurenquan
Introduction
An expression from the Song Dynasty, “drops of water piercing through rock” (水滴石穿), describes the power of persistent effort to accomplish the seemingly impossible. The human rights situation in China—with the heavy hand of the authorities blocking attempts at or even suggestions for reform—can...
January 26, 2011
China Rights Forum
Xu Zhiyong in Custody Seven Days; Still No Official Explanation
Seven days after Xu Zhiyong (许志永) , the director of Gongmeng, a public interest organization in Beijing, was taken away by State Security of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, there is still no official explanation for his detention. According to unofficial reports, Xu Zhiyong is being...
August 4, 2009
Press Work
Xu Zhiyong
About Wang Lihong
Photo courtesy of the family Wang Lihong (王荔蕻), a Beijing citizen, became involved in rights activism after her retirement from working life. She is known for her forthrightness, kindness, and willingness to help others, and is called “Older Sister” by fellow rights defenders. She was one of the...
November 16, 2011
China Rights Forum
Photos: Protestors Call for Release of “Ten Gentlemen of Zhengzhou”
We—more than three dozen rights defenders—protested in front of Zhengzhou No. 3 Detention Center, to support the “Ten Gentlemen of Zhengzhou.” They were all detained and arrested on trumped up charges, such as “illegal business activity” and “picking quarrels and provoking troubles,” and many are...
August 15, 2014
Citizens' Square

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