Incidents/Cases

Chinese Activist Yang Jianli on Why He Left Communist Party by Katherine Murphy Dr. Yang Jianli Speaks at Boston College   Former Tiananmen Square protester Yang Jianli, who spent five years in prison in China, talked to a packed room Monday night in an event...

In Human Rights Speech, Rubio Calls for Release of Two Chinese Political Prisoners FEB 07 2017 Washington, D.C. - During a Senate floor speech last night, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) highlighted the plight of two lawyers imprisoned by the Chinese government for...

NATIONAL REVIEW   China, the West, and Leverage By Jay Nordlinger December 16, 2016 Yesterday, I wrote a post headed "The Quiet Death of 'Liu Xiaobo Plaza.'" It was about the House GOP and its spiking of a move to honor a Chinese political prisoner. In that post, I...

A Joint Statement Upon the Establishment of China Human Rights Accountability Center January 10, 2017 On December 23, 2016, President Obama signed into law "The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act." The law authorizes the U.S. president to levy sanctions...