<div>Within minutes, Chen feared, she and her two daughters would be escorted back to China, where her husband, the prominent rights lawyer Xie Yang, was held on a charge of inciting subversion — and where punishment for attempting to flee surely awaited her.</div>
阅读更多<div>"Xie told the court … that he had not been coerced into a confession nor had he been subjected to torture," state news agency Xinhua reported, reflecting the ruling Chinese Communist Party's official version of events.</div><div></div>
阅读更多<div>Hu Jia, 43, a former winner of the European Union's Sakharov human rights prize was taken to Beijing's You'an Hospital on Saturday with acute pancreatitis, and is being evaluated for surgery, Hu's supporters said.</div>
阅读更多<div>Xie, who has made a long and detailed report of torture in detention, was due to stand trial at the Changsha Intermediate People’s Court on April 25, facing charges of "incitement to subvert state power" and "disrupting court order.</div>
阅读更多<div>Chen went 'missing' with his wife Zou Shaomei and the couple's two sons during a family trip to the southwestern province of Yunnan after making a video saying he was concerned that he might be detained.</div><div></div>
阅读更多<div>After we arranged accommodation, on the morning of April 24 we set off for Shaya Prison. Because we weren’t familiar with the road, we went the wrong way and had to turn back midway. At about 10:30 a.m. we finally arrived at the prison gates. My uneasiness and insomnia due to worrying whether the meeting would take place made me even more exhausted and nervous.</div>
阅读更多<div>I thought it was a standard attempt to threaten us and asked them to present their ID badges. They refused. As we were arguing and haggling over this point, they told me that Li Heping had already been given a suspended sentence. I was extremely shocked. This meant that Li Heping had already been tried in secret.</div>
阅读更多<div>Around 5:00 p.m., all six were taken away in vehicles by a dozen or so armed police, according to a handwritten note by Chen Jiangang, circulating on WeChat. The note said:1. Before I signed [a list of confiscated belongings], no one showed me any proper warrant.2. Many more of our personal belongings have been stolen from us.</div><div></div>
阅读更多<div></div><div>Zi Su was taken away from his home in Sichuan's provincial capital Chengdu on April 28 after he posted an open letter online calling on Xi to step down as head of the party in favor of Hu Deping, son of late ousted premier Hu Yaobang, whose death in 1989 sparked the Tiananmen Square democracy movement.</div>
阅读更多<div>"Xie Yang’s arrest and prosecution seem to be in connection with his performing legitimate professional functions as a human rights lawyer," ICJ secretary general Sam Zarifi said in a statement on the group's website.</div>
阅读更多<div>The latest, in January, was a video showing him standing before a large screen displaying appalling photos of indiscriminate quarrying and other environmental woes and delivering a talk about them. In one, mountaintops have been obliterated. In another, an aerial shot, a rocky landscape has been pockmarked with gaping holes where the stone was extracted.</div><div></div>
阅读更多<div>The lawyer, Li Heping, who has been in detention since 2015, received a four-year reprieve, a court in the port city of Tianjin said in a statement. That means he will not have to serve the sentence if he stays out of legal trouble during that time.</div>
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