Cui Weiping, a professor at the Beijing Film Academcy and prominent academic, planned to lecture at Harvard University and attend a conference sponsored by the Association of Asian Studies but the director of her school told her that she had been forbidden to travel. … continue reading >>
Google in China
April 15, 2010
In March, 2010, Google Corporation decided that it would no longer continue censoring the contents of Google in China, as required by that country’s government. Earlier attacks on the privacy of the Google network led to this decision, including evidence that the Gmail counts of human rights activists in China were being accessed. The company’s decision redirected users in mainland China to uncensored searches delivered via servers in Hong Kong. … continue reading >>
CCS applauds Google for their stand on China
January 28, 2010
Recent attacks on Google email systems in China compromised the privacy of communications by human rights activists. We have been advocating for many years on behalf of Chinese academics and other professionals who peacefully protest government policy.
Lately, peaceful expressions in China of almost any political views that the authorities characterize as subversive have been punished by long prison sentences. … continue reading >>
Liu Xiaobo still imprisoned
January 28, 2010
Liu Xiaobo
Letter on behalf of Liu Xiaobo
Originally published in the Washington Post
To His Excellency Hu Jintao
President of the People’s Republic of China
Prague, Jan. 6, 2010 … continue reading >>
Chinese economics professor fired
January 14, 2010
Professor Wang Quing Ying, a professor of economics at Guangdong University of Technology’s Huali College, has been forced to resign from his teaching position under pressure from school authorities. Professor Wang is a signer of Charter 08, which called on China to respect the requirements of its own constitution, of China’s international obligations, and of basic human rights. During a recent outing with fellow dissidents, he wore a t-shirt bearing the slogan “One Party Dictatorship is a Disaster,” leading to his firing.
Chinese professor sentenced to ten years in prison
January 13, 2010
On October 16, 2009, Sugian Intermediate People’s Court in Jiangsu Province sentenced Professor Guo Quan, former Nanjing Normal University associate professor and former member of China Democratic League (one of the eight state-approved “democratic” parties) to ten years in prison for “subversion of state power.” Between 2007 and 2008, Guo Quan published articles and an open letter on the Internet addressed to President … continue reading >>
Chinese activist imprisoned
November 30, 2009
On Monday, November 23, 2009, Huang Qui was sentenced to three years in prison for “illegal possession of state secrets” by the Chengdu Wuhou District Court, Sichuan Province, after being tried in a three-hour secret trial in August, 2008. Huang has been in detention since June, 2008. According to his wife, Zeng Li, his health has seriously deteriorated and he has been diagnosed with an abdominal aneurysm. … continue reading >>
China: Historian unable to leave after serving prison sentence
April 28, 2009
Professor Tohti Tunyaz: Welcomed the release from prison of Tohti Tunyaz, an Uighur historian and writer, but protested his inability to leave China to rejoin his family in Japan, under restrictions imposed by Chinese authorities. At the time of his arrest, Tohti was studying for a PhD in Uighur history and ethnic relations at Tokyo University, in Japan. Tohti was sentenced to 11 years in prison for “illegally acquiring state secrets” … continue reading >>
China: over 8,000 sign the petition
April 1, 2009
Over 8,000 sign the petition by Liu Xiaobo urging their government to comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (see http://www.hrichina.org)
Liu Gang
October 3, 1997
Liu Gang
CCS met the announcement of the trial of the physics graduate student Liu Gang on charges of “conspiracy to overthrow the Government” with cables to Premier Li Peng and leaders of Chinese science. Our message of distress at Liu’s being tried for his nonviolent participation in the democracy movement fell on deaf ears as the trial proceeded and culminated in a six- year sentence.
This sad outcome prompted our circulating a petition which drew 400 endorsements from participants at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society. … continue reading >>
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