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Title: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: Vika NSFW on October 25, 2015, 07:52:18 AM
BEIJING - China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) on Friday published a report on China's progress in human rights in 2014.

The blue paper introduced new progress in human rights that China has achieved under comprehensive reforms. It also analyzes the influence of China's drive to promote rule of law on human rights, saying that human rights will be fully safeguarded by law in the future.

The report discusses social assistance, health, education, private data protection, employment of ethnic groups, and other rights issues.

It also reported on legal assistance for migrant workers, social organizations and opinions on anti-corruption efforts.

It is the fifth human rights blue paper that China has published.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-09/25/content_21981763.htm

http://www.chinahumanrights.org/


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Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: Vika NSFW on October 29, 2015, 08:49:51 PM
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20151029/eca86bd9dcd8179c4d6c1b.jpg

Li Shuchun, 4, and his 7-month-old brother Li Shuhan, live in Beijing with their parents who are among the 1.07 million out of 11 million eligible couples applied to have a second child by the end of last year. [Photo by Wang Nina/Provided to chinadaily.com.cn]




BEIJING - China will allow all couples to have two children, abandoning its decades-long one-child policy, the Communist Party of China (CPC) announced after a key meeting on Thursday.

The change of policy is intended to balance population development and address the challenge of an ageing population, according to a communique issued after the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held from Monday to Thursday.

Demographic experts say the move, as leaders map out the country's economic and social development plan toward 2020, will help the country achieve its short-term and long-term goals.

After taking into accounts the proposal, a final plan will be ratified by the annual session of China's top legislature in March.

It will further ease the world's most populous country's family planning policy after the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee in November 2013 ruled that couples are allowed to have two children if one of them is an only child.

Li Bin, head of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said after the release of Thursday's communique that the two-child policy will optimize the demographic structure, increase labor supply, ease pressure from the ageing population, and help improve the health of the economy.

Li added that the commission will increase services in maternal and child health as well as build more kindergartens.

A just-married 27-year-old woman surnamed Wang in Beijing is one of the people set to benefit from the change. Wang has an elder sister and her 31-year-old husband has an elder brother.

"Both of us want to have two children because we were raised in two-child families, and we enjoy it," she said. "We knew that the one-child policy would be abandoned at some point, but we never thought it would come so soon. It's come in time for us!"

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China had a population of 1.368 billion at the end of 2014, while India, with the world's second largest population, has about 1.25 billion people.

China's family planning policy was first introduced in the late 1970s to rein in the surging population by limiting most urban couples to one child and most rural couples to two children, if the first child born was a girl.

The policy was later relaxed to say that any parents could have a second child if they were both only children.

Lu Jiehua, a sociologist with Peking University, noted that a second step in relaxing the birth control policy was promised by the government at the time of its 2013 easing.

Since its implementation, the one-child policy has resulted in an estimated reduction of some 400 million people in China, successfully containing over-population.

However, it has also been blamed for generating a number of social problems, especially a decreasing labor force and an ageing population.

According to official data from 2014, China had over 212 million people above the age of 60, and 137 million above 65, accounting for 15.5 percent and 10.1 percent of the population, respectively.

China's labor force in 2012 reached a peak of 940 million, and decreased to 930 million in 2014. It is estimated that the labor force will decrease by about 29 million in the decade ending in 2020.

Yuan Xin, a professor with Tianjin's Nankai University, said the new policy will definitely reduce the ageing problem in the long term, "but there will be little outcome in the short term. By 2050, the proportion of the ageing population will be reduced by 1.5 percent."

The new policy will slow the shrinkage of the working-age population. However, China will still suffer from a surplus in total labor force and a structural shortage of talent.

According to Lu, in the short term, being able to have two children will benefit about 100 million families around the country.

However, it will take time to show any real effect, according to the professor, who believes couples will take a rational attitude. "Couples born in the 1970s may want to have a second child as they want to 'catch the last bus,' but those born in the 1980s and 1990s have no urgent desire to give birth to a second child."

The experts said the change of the policy does not reflect badly on the one-child parents.

"It was a choice based on historical conditions, and it is right that policies should be adjusted constantly to adopt to demographic change," said Yuan.

Lu said the new policy will help China meet the development goals set in the 13th Five-year Plan that the recent CPC plenary session discussed, especially in the situation that slowing economic development needs more population to increase the domestic demand.

The CPC Central Committee said in the communique that the 13th Five-year Plan is a key stage for building a well-off society by 2020, one of the CPC's "Two Centenary Goals," another being building a modern socialist country by 2050.

"The policy change is a must for China to take a sustainable path toward the two goals," said Yuan.

100 million couples would be eligible under a universal two-child policy

About 100 million Chinese couples will be eligible to have a second child when Beijing further relaxes the national one-child birth rule, a top Chinese population scientist estimated.

Yuan Xin, a scientist at Nankai University in Tianjin who sits on an expert panel of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, offered the projection in an interview with China Daily.

The central government initially eased the family planning policy in late 2013, allowing couples to have a second child in situations where one spouse was only child. As of June, only 1.5 million of the 11 million eligible couples had applied for second child.

The change will more highly impact rural families who are more interested than urbanites in having bigger families, Yuan said.

"The coming universal two-child policy would be much better received among the people than the previous policy relaxation," he said.

Yuan also urged the addition of more favorable social and economic policies to make it easier for couples to raise more children.

Official statistics show that China’s potential workforce, people ages 16 to 59, peaked around 2011, and has been in decline since then. At the same time, the number of working people has been declining as a proportion of the total population.

Last year, there were 916 million people between the ages of 16 and 59 in China, roughly 66 percent of the entire population. The proportion hit a peak of 74.5 percent in 2010, and has been falling ever since.

At the same time, the percentage of children to the total population has been dwindling, creating a dearth of future workers, said Mu Guangzong, a demographics expert at Peking University.

"The looming labor shortage will upset sustainable socioeconomic development of the country," Mu said.

To reverse the trend and fuel population growth, he recommended ending limits on family size.

China will need a new baby boom to counter aging, low fertility and labor shortages, Mu said.


http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-10/29/content_22312495_2.htm


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: msc_de on October 29, 2015, 09:11:17 PM
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Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: msc_de on October 29, 2015, 09:12:16 PM
Five Years On, Liu Xiaobo's Wife Stays Silent, Under House Arrest
2015-10-08  

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/silence-10082015111519.html


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Liu Xia (r) and rights lawyer Mo Shaoping (l) arrive at her brother Liu Hui's trial in Beijing on April 23, 2013.
 AFP



Five years after being awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, activists are calling on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to release his wife Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest at the couple's Beijing apartment since her husband's award was announced.

Beijing rights activist Hu Jia, a close friend of the Lius, said the Nobel award has had huge repercussions for the activist's entire extended family.

"[Liu Xia's] brother was sentenced to 11 years in jail, which was entirely because of his connection to the Lius," Hu told RFA.

"But the worst persecution has been the way they have cut off Liu Xia's communication with the outside world, and silenced her," he said.

While Liu Hui has since been released from prison, he remains under bail conditions, and is an important form of leverage over Liu Xia, Hu said.

"Basically, they are effectively saying to Liu Xia that if she has any contact with the outside world, people like me, foreign diplomats or journalists, then they can put her brother back in jail again," he said.

"So she has no way to speak out either on her husband's behalf, or her own."

Hong Kong-based campaigner Richard Choi said his group, the Patriotic Alliance for the Democratic Movement in China, has been campaigning for Liu's release and on behalf of Liu Xia since her husband's sentencing to 11 years' imprisonment on Dec. 25, 2009 for "incitement to subvert state power."

"All Chinese citizens should speak out for Liu Xiaobo," Choi said, adding that 2015 Nobel medical prize-winner Tu Youyou should add her voice to those calling for Liu's release.

"I think Tu Youyou should also call on the Chinese government [to release him]," he said.

"Five years after Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize, I want to call once more on the Chinese government to release him immediately," Choi said.

"Chinese people should be proud of our fellow citizen, Liu Xiaobo, for winning the Nobel Peace Prize," Choi told RFA.

Hu said he is being prevented from leaving his apartment on Thursday, for fear he should use the day to carry out some form of protest on their behalf.

"Today is treated the same as Dec. 10; they are both taboo dates, and whenever they roll around, I am held under house arrest at home," Hu said.

"I heard the state security police talking about it, and they said I wasn't to be allowed to leave my apartment," he said.

Hu said he would mark the day at home in his own way, however.

Parole denied

In June 2014, the authorities turned down an application for parole from Liu's lawyers, who said he can't make a fresh request for another three years from that date.

In the application, Liu, 60, criticized the prison authorities for denying him the right to be in contact with friends and family, which is against China's Constitution.

However, he is unlikely to qualify for parole, because he has never admitted to committing any crime.

His lawyers say Liu still follows political developments in China, where the administration of President Xi Jinping  launched a nationwide police operation that has detained nearly 300 rights attorneys, paralegals, and legal activists since early July.

Liu Xiaobo's continued imprisonment was cited by rights groups as an emblem of Beijing's poor record during Xi's state visit to the United States last month.

A literary critic and former professor, Liu was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" in a decision that infuriated Beijing, which says he has broken Chinese law.

He has been held since 2008 after helping to draft Charter 08, a manifesto calling for sweeping changes in China's government that was signed by thousands of supporters.

Reported by Xin Lin for RFA's Mandarin Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
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Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: msc_de on October 29, 2015, 09:18:10 PM
China: International Law Requires the Immediate Release of Bao Zhuoxuan | Letter
October 21, 2015
Full PDF Version
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

http://www.lrwc.org/china-international-law-requires-the-immediate-release-of-bao-zhuoxuan-letter/

Xi Jinping
General Secretary, Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
The State Council General Office
2 Fuyoujie
Xichengqu
Beijingshi 100017
People’s Republic of China

Guo Shengkun
Minister of Public Security
No.14, Donchang’anjie,
Dongchengqu, Beijing 100741
People’s Republic of China
Email:  gabzfwz@mps.gov.cn

Attention CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping and Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun

Re: International law requires the immediate release of Bao Zhuoxuan

We write on behalf of Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), a committee of Canadian lawyers who promote human rights and the rule of law internationally. LRWC also campaigns for lawyers and other human rights defenders in danger because of their advocacy.
LRWC demands the immediate release of Bao Zhuoxuan, the return of his passport and removal of all impediments to his traveling to San Francisco California.

Illegal and Arbitrary Arrest, Detention and Treatment of Bao Zhuoxuan

In an illegal bid clearly intended to pressure and punish Bao Zhuoxuan’s parents, Chinese authorities arrested Bao Zhuoxuan, the 16-year-old son of human rights lawyers Wang Yu and Bao Longjun on 9 October 2015. The boy is reported to be under house arrest at the home of his grandparents in Ulanhot: his presence there and the conditions of his detention have not been confirmed by anyone independent of the Government of the People’s Republic of China. Bao Zhuoxuan was arrested by uniformed Chinese police in Mong La, Myanmar while he was enroute to the United States to stay with a family friend, Liang Bo, during his parents’ illegal detention. Liang Bo had been planning to host Mr. Bao Zhuoxuan in the San Francisco area in the absence of his parents.  Wang Yu and Bao Longjun were arrested 9 July 2015 and their whereabouts are unknown.[1] State authorities report that they are being held “under residential surveillance at a designated place.” A recent video of Wang Yu making a forced statement confirms that she is still alive, but her whereabouts, and the conditions under which she and her husband are currently detained, are unknown. Wang Yu and Bao Longjun have been detained for over three months without legal authorization, without access to legal representation and without judicial oversight. Their arrest and detention and the arrest and detention of their son are in gross violation of both Chinese domestic law and China’s international law obligations as a member of the United Nations and as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council. LRWC considers the three members of this family to be victims of enforced disappearance.

Journalist Philip Wen was en route to the home of Bao Zhuoxuan’s grandparents when his team was intercepted by four police officers dressed in plain clothes. At the local police station, while asking questions about their credentials, “the officers largely refused to answer questions about Zhuoxuan’s welfare – and when they did, they provided conflicting accounts”, reports Wen. One said “Zhuoxuan had a cold and was running a high fever; another said he was in school”. Three policemen allegedly said the teenager had been “tricked” into crossing the Myanmar border, and “regretted” doing so. After some time, the police were able to determine that the reporters were in fact in Ulanhot legally and had not contravened any regulations. But in China foreign journalists require the permission of an interviewee before conducting interviews. Police in China of course routinely declare that prospective interviewees have declined to grant an interview, without the proposed interviewee ever appearing in person. The police said both the boy and his grandmother had declined to be interviewed, and escorted the journalists to the airport for their return flights to Beijing.

Bao Zhuoxuan’s case has received international attention; a report by the United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China recommended that lawmakers and administration officials raise it with the Chinese government. The U.S. State Department said it was concerned over reports that Bao Zhuoxuan, the underage son of detained rights lawyers Wang Yu and Bao Longjun, had been put under house arrest in Inner Mongolia. Spokesman John Kirby said in a statement “We urge China to uphold its international human rights commitments and protect the health and safety of this minor child”. “We are also concerned about an apparent systematic campaign of China to persecute relatives of Chinese citizens who peacefully question the official policy and work to protect the rights of others.” “We call on China to remove restrictions on freedom of movement for Bao Zhuoxuan, and again urge China to release Wang Yu and (her husband) Bao Longyun unconditionally”.


Violation of International Obligations by China

Actions that constitute grave violations of China’s international law obligations include the:
Unlawful and arbitrary arrest and detention of Bao Zhuoxuan;
Unjustified prevention of Bao Zhuoxuan from leaving China;
Denial of timely and confidential access to a legal representative of choice;
Denial of judicial review of the legality of the arrest, detention and treatment of Bao Zhuoxuan by a competent, impartial and independent tribunal;

Use by Chinese authorities of harm or threats of harm to Bao Zhuoxuan to coerce confessions from or force compliance by Wang Yu and Bao Longjun;
Use by Chinese authorities of harm or threats of harm to Wang Yu and Bao Longjun to coerce a confession from or force compliance by Bao Zhuoxuan.

These actions by officials acting at the behest of the Government of the People’s Republic of China are grave violations of China’s international law obligations to ensure the protected rights of Bao Zhuoxuan and to prevent and punish violations of those rights. The internationally protected rights of Bao Zhuoxuan which Chinese authorities have violated include his rights to: liberty; freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; timely and confidential access to legal representation; judicial review of the legality of his arrest, detention and treatment by a competent, impartial and independent tribunal; equality and non-discrimination; freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; and the right to be treated as a child.

In addition, the arbitrary and unlawful arrest and detention of Bao Zhuoxuan is discriminatory, having been carried out solely because of his status as the son of Wang Yu and Bao Longjun, two human rights lawyers whom China wants to silence. The denial of judicial oversight and access to legal representation constitutes a contravention of the non-derogable prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment that is part of international customary law and a provision of all the above-noted treaties signed, acceded to or ratified by China. The European Court of Human Rights (El-Masri v. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Application no. 39630/09) unanimously held, inter alia, that incommunicado confinement in a hotel for 23 days outside any judicial framework was inhuman and degrading treatment prohibited by the Convention against Torture.

China has accepted and is bound by legal obligations to protect the rights of Bao Zhuoxuan and to effectively prevent and punish violations arising from the: Charter of the United Nations (19 October 1945), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (voted in favour 10 December 1948); Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (4 October 1988); Convention on the Rights of the Child (2 March 1992); and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (signed 5 October 1998). As a state party to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (acceded to 3 September 1997) China has additionally agreed not to “invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.” (Article 27)

In 1945 China accepted the obligation set out in Article 55 of the Charter of the United Nations to promote “universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.”[2]
These obligations are repeated and have been accepted by China, in all the above-mentioned human rights treaties. As a current member of the UN Human Rights Council China must, in accordance with Resolution A/RES/60/251 of April 2006, “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights, shall fully cooperate with the Council and be reviewed under the universal periodic review mechanism during their term of membership.”

LRWC demands the immediate release of Bao Zhuoxuan, the return of his passport and removal of all impediments preventing him from traveling to San Francisco, California in accordance with China’s international law obligations.
 
Sincerely,
 
Gail Davidson                                                 Clive Ansley
Executive Director, LRWC                             Barrister and Solicitor
China Monitor, LRWC

Copied to:
His Excellency Ambassador Wu Hailong
Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations in Geneva
11, chemin de Surville 1213 Petit-Lancy, Geneva, Switzerland
Email: chinamission_gva@mfa.gov.cn

Mr. Wang Junfeng
All China Lawyers Association
5/F., Qinglan Plaza
No. 24, Dongsishitiao,
Dongchengqu, Beijing 100007, People’s Republic of China

Ms. Mónica Pinto
Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
8-14 Avenue de la Paix 1211, Geneva 10, Switzerland
E-mail: SRindependenceJL@ohchr.org

Juan Mendez, Special Rapporteur on Torture
c/o Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
E-mail: urgent-action@ohchr.org

Ambassador Guy Saint-Jacques
Canadian Embassy
19 Dongzhimenwai Dajie
Chao Yang District
Beijing 100600 PRC
Email: beijing-pa@international.gc.ca

Ambassador Elissa Goldberg
Permanent Canadian Mission to Geneva
5 Avenue de l’Ariana 1202, Geneva, Switzerland
E-mail: genev-gr@international.gc.ca

[1] For more information see, Mass arrest, detention and disappearance of lawyers and other rights advocates in China, LRWC, 16 September, 2015. Online at http://www.lrwc.org/china-mass-arrest-detention-and-disappearance-of-lawyers-and-other-rights-advocates-in-china-report/
[2] Ibid, art 55.


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: msc_de on October 29, 2015, 09:20:21 PM
Police Prevent Top Chinese Rights Attorneys From Leaving The Country
2015-08-20  

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/police-prevent-top-chinese-rights-attorneys-from-leaving-country-08202015095944.html/china-five-feminist-activists-apr14-2015.jpg/image

China's feminist five — (clockwise from top left) Li Tingting, Wu Rongrong, Zheng Churan, Wei Tingting and Wang Man — were released on April 14, 2015.
EyePress News



A defense attorney for one of the five Chinese feminists detained as they organized an anti-sexual harassment even for International Women's Day has been prevented from leaving the country, he told RFA on Thursday.

Liang Xiaojun, who represented women's rights activist Wu Rongrong after her detention alongside four fellow activists, was turned away as he tried to cross the border to board a plane to study in the United States.

"I, my wife and our child were about to go through immigration, and we were standing at the line, and they looked at my passport, and called somebody over," Liang said after returning from Beijing's International Airport. "That person took us to one side and said he had a few things to ask us."

"They had us wait awhile to one side, and they made a phone call to ask about it," he said.

Liang said he and his family waited there for around 20 minutes.

"The border police told us they had received notification from the Beijing police department that I was to be prevented from leaving the country on the grounds that it would harm national security," Liang said.

Liang said he couldn't imagine what he might have done to "endanger national security."

"He was just following orders," he said. "There was nothing in writing; it was a verbal notification."

However, Liang wrote on social media that he had made "mental preparations" for being stopped.

Liang and the rest of the feminists' defense team had previously called for all remaining charges against the feminist five — Li Tingting, Wu Rongrong, Wei Tingting, Wang Man, and Zheng Churan — who were detained ahead of International Women's Day and later released on "bail."

Liang is the latest in a line of human rights lawyers to be prevented from leaving the country since the ruling Chinese Communist Party began targeting the country's embattled legal profession in a nationwide police operation on July 9-10.

"Following the ... crackdown, at least five lawyers and one child have been restricted from leaving the country on grounds of 'endangering national security,'" the Hong Kong-based China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group (CHRLCG) said in a statement on its website.

Liang said the charge of endangering national security is increasingly being used against the profession by police in recent weeks.

"Whether they are detaining lawyers or preventing them from leaving the country, they use the same charge," he said. "The details differ in each case, so some people have restrictions on their freedom, while some are prevented from leaving China.”

But Liang said the move was a misuse of state power.

"This is an abuse of the law, and a violation of citizens' rights," he said.

Others prevented from leaving

Hunan lawyer Cai Ying was prevented from leaving the country on Monday, while Guangdong lawyer Chen Wuquan was prevented from entering Hong Kong on Sunday, CHRLCG said.

On Aug. 11, Shanghai lawyer Zhong Jinhua was also turned back with his wife and two young children at Shanghai's Pudong airport, where they had planned to board a flight to the U.S. and forced to undergo a strip and body search, although no documentation was produced, it said.

Lawyer Si Weijiang was prevented from boarding a flight out of China at Pudong on the same day, also with no written notification.

And lawyer Zhang Qingfang, who defended jailed New Citizens' Movement founder Xu Zhiyong, was prevented from traveling to the U.S. with his child and the child of a friend on Aug. 3.

"Endangering state security" was given as the justification in all cases, the group said.

In recent weeks, police have detained or interrogated at least 269 lawyers, law firm staff, and associated human right activists, CHRLCG said.

More than 20 people remain in detention, 16 of them at undisclosed locations, while many more have been placed under surveillance, police warning or house arrest.

Article 12 of China’s Exit and Entry Administration Law provides for a Chinese citizen to be prohibited from exiting China "because the national security or interest may be compromised," but the criteria for such a decision are not defined.

Last month’s raid on the Fengrui public interest law firm in Beijing, in which rights lawyers Wang Yu, Zhou Shifeng, Huang Liqun, Liu Sixin and Wang Quanzhang have been accused of deliberately fomenting social unrest, was just the beginning of a much wider operation that has left the Chinese legal profession in a state of shock.

The move comes as the government intensifies a clampdown on all forms of civil society, including nongovernmental organizations, in an apparent bid to cleanse it of alleged "foreign influence."

Many who seek to help others defend their legal rights are accused of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," and sometimes the more serious national security offense of "incitement to subvert state power."

Reported by Yang Fan for RFA's Mandarin Service and by Wen Yuqing for the Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: msc_de on October 29, 2015, 09:23:06 PM
OME | NEWS | TIBET

Chinese Police Open Fire as Marchers Protest the Death of Popular Tibetan Monk
2015-07-13


Over a thousand Tibetans gathered on Monday in Sichuan province’s Nyagchuka county to mourn the death in prison of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, an influential and well-respected Buddhist monk, with Chinese security forces at one point firing shots to disperse protesters, Tibetan sources in the region and in exile said.

Though police opened fire “to control the crowd,” there were no immediate reports of injuries in the incident, a Tibetan living in Australia told RFA’s Tibetan Service, citing local contacts.

Separately, the India-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) confirmed that shots had been fired near government offices in Nyagchuka (in Chinese, Yajiang) county’s Thang Karma township.

“The security forces shot at the Tibetans. They also lobbed teargas shells to disperse the crowd,” TCHRD said on July 13, quoting a source.

“Security forces have been deployed in the area and the road between Lithang [Litang] and Nyagchuka counties has been blocked. Travel to the area has been strictly restricted,” TCHRD added.

The protesters had gathered to demand the return to Nyagchuka of the body of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, whose unexplained death at age 65 in the 13th year of a life sentence in prison was revealed by Tibetan sources and confirmed by local Chinese authorities on July 12.

Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, who was widely popular among Tibetans for his efforts to protect Tibetan culture and the environment, had been imprisoned since 2002 following what rights groups and supporters described as a wrongful conviction on a bombing charge.

His initial death sentence in the case was later commuted to life imprisonment, but an assistant, Lobsang Dondrub, was executed almost immediately, prompting an outcry from rights activists who questioned the fairness of the trial.

Two of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche’s sisters had traveled two weeks ago to Sichuan’s provincial capital Chengdu to visit him in prison, but they were repeatedly blocked by authorities in their attempts to see him, a Tibetan living in Australia told RFA.

“They were told that they could see him next day, or next Monday, or next Sunday, and so on,” RFA’s source said, citing contacts in his native town in the region.

“On July 12, the Chinese authorities told them that they could see Rinpoche at 11:00 a.m., but they were then informed at about 12:00 noon that he had passed away,” the source said.




Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: Vika NSFW on October 29, 2015, 09:31:13 PM
the administration of President Xi Jinping  launched a nationwide police operation that has detained nearly 300 rights attorneys, paralegals, and legal activists since early July

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Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: Vika NSFW on October 29, 2015, 09:36:51 PM

Reported by Yang Fan for RFA's Mandarin Service and by Wen Yuqing for the Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.

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Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: InvoKing on October 29, 2015, 09:43:16 PM
Like there is a single country in this world that respect human rights... Oh Please...
Under the laws against terrorism/ national security, they can do whatever they like, they killed civilians, they targeted the journalists,...

Btw, can you make a little summary for this long texts!



Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: msc_de on October 29, 2015, 09:53:00 PM
BEIJING - China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) on Friday published a report on China's progress in human rights in 2014.

The blue paper introduced new progress in human rights that China has achieved under comprehensive reforms. It also analyzes the influence of China's drive to promote rule of law on human rights, saying that human rights will be fully safeguarded by law in the future.

The report discusses social assistance, health, education, private data protection, employment of ethnic groups, and other rights issues.

It also reported on legal assistance for migrant workers, social organizations and opinions on anti-corruption efforts.

It is the fifth human rights blue paper that China has published.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-09/25/content_21981763.htm

http://www.chinahumanrights.org/


Human Rights in China
http://china.org.cn/e-white/7/index.htm

Eat Your shit self, not put it in the brain of educated people.


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: Vika NSFW on October 29, 2015, 09:53:55 PM
Btw, can you make a little summary for this long texts!



This is a biorobot for copy-paste he ignore claims in overciting, and use flooding in any situation.


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: msc_de on October 29, 2015, 09:55:10 PM
Btw, can you make a little summary for this long texts!



This is a biorobot for copy-paste he ignore claims in overciting, and use flooding in any situation.

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Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: msc_de on October 29, 2015, 09:56:39 PM
Like there is a single country in this world that respect human rights... Oh Please...
Under the laws against terrorism/ national security, they can do whatever they like, they killed civilians, they targeted the journalists,...

Btw, can you make a little summary for this long texts!



Menschenrechtsbeauftragter Strässer verurteilt Verhaftungswelle gegen Anwälte in China

Erscheinungsdatum
13.07.2015

Anlässlich der seit dem 10. Juli andauernden Festnahmewelle gegen Rechtsanwälte erklärte der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Menschenrechtspolitik und Humanitäre Hilfe, Christoph Strässer, heute (13.07.):

"Die Festnahme von bis zu 100 Anwälten und Mitarbeitern in Anwaltskanzleien in China verurteile ich. Das Ausmaß der Festnahmen und die öffentliche Diskreditierung der Anwälte in den staatlichen Medien sind präzedenzlos. Mit dieser Verhaftungswelle setzt die chinesische Regierung ein deutliches Signal: Kritik am System wird unterbunden, und sogar Anwälte müssen mit harten Strafen rechnen, wenn sie ihrer ureigenen Aufgabe, der Verteidigung ihrer Mandanten, nachgehen. Dieses Vorgehen steht in eklatantem Widerspruch zum erklärten Willen der chinesischen Regierung, Rechtsstaatlichkeit zu fördern.         

Ich bin darüber hinaus zutiefst beunruhigt, dass diese Aktion der Sicherheitsbehörden mit dem neuen nationalen Sicherheitsgesetz gerechtfertigt wird. Durch die vagen Formulierungen und die weite Fassung des Begriffs ‚nationale Sicherheit‘ sind Maßnahmen der Sicherheitsbehörden abgedeckt, ohne dass eine unabhängige Kontrolle oder Korrektur dieser Maßnahmen möglich wäre.         

Ich rufe die chinesische Führung auf, die verhafteten Anwälte freizulassen und deren Berufsausübung sowie die Verteidigung ihrer Mandanten nicht weiter zu beschränken. Außerdem fordere ich die chinesische Regierung auf, sich am selbst propagierten Willen zu mehr Rechtsstaatlichkeit messen zu lassen. Das nationale Sicherheitsgesetz in seiner jetzigen Form entspricht nicht rechtsstaatlichen Grundsätzen. Gesetze, die eine Einschränkung der bürgerlichen Rechte aufgrund der Bedrohung der nationalen Sicherheit erlauben, müssen klar definiert sein und eine unabhängige Kontrolle ermöglichen."


Info

Seit dem 10. Juli wurden in China landesweit zahlreiche Anwälte verhaftet, die in der Vergangenheit die Strafverteidigung von Menschenrechtsaktivisten übernommen hatten. Über den Verbleib zahlreicher Anwälte ist noch nichts bekannt; mit Anklagen und Verurteilungen zu hohen Haftstrafen ist zu rechnen. Die Sicherheitsbehörden rechtfertigen ihr Vorgehen mit der potentiellen Bedrohung für die nationale Sicherheit. Das nationale Sicherheitsgesetz wurde am 01.Juli durch den nationalen Volkskongress verabschiedet. Der VN-Hochkommissar für Menschenrechte hat das Gesetz bereits kritisiert.


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: BADecker on October 29, 2015, 09:57:16 PM
Human rights never progress. They remain always the same. People have the right to do anything as long as it doesn't detract from others doing anything they want. Governments use human rights speeches and statistics as an excuse to do wrong.

:)


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: msc_de on October 29, 2015, 09:58:13 PM
Btw, can you make a little summary for this long texts!



This is a biorobot for copy-paste he ignore claims in overciting, and use flooding in any situation.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLL6oF1UEAEEx2Q.jpg


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: msc_de on October 29, 2015, 09:59:25 PM
Like there is a single country in this world that respect human rights... Oh Please...
Under the laws against terrorism/ national security, they can do whatever they like, they killed civilians, they targeted the journalists,...

Btw, can you make a little summary for this long texts!



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Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: Vika NSFW on October 29, 2015, 10:00:18 PM

Menschenrechtsbeauftragter Strässer verurteilt Verhaftungswelle gegen Anwälte in China


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Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: Vika NSFW on October 29, 2015, 10:12:30 PM

WOW, a paid actors from http://www.epochtimes.com/ ??
Nice picture!
Please, post more!

I have just asking You, how much chinese are living in Los Angeles?


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: Vika NSFW on October 30, 2015, 01:33:26 AM
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Two men act as human traffic signals on Monday at an intersection in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. [Wang Yongbo/China Daily]

Human traffic lights ensure smooth travel in Hebei

Many people have probably played a role in a drama, or pretended to be an animal to entertain children, but few have had a chance to act as human traffic lights like the two heroes in our story.

Two men took on the job of human traffic signals at an intersection in Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei province, when the electric traffic signals broke down and several traffic accidents occurred over the past month, Yanzhao Evening Post reported on Tuesday.

Liu Yichen, 33, and Chen Liwei, 39, are colleagues in a nearby technology company. They set up temporary signals using large plastic boards with the words "stop" and "go", turning in one direction or another every 30 seconds to aid drivers.

The city was evaluating the problem with the lights and sent police officers to direct rush-hour traffic.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/trending/2015-10/28/content_22301968.htm
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What for bloody Chinese Mainland Police, they have not shot them right on the street!


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: msc_de on October 30, 2015, 04:23:31 PM
China Again Rated 'Worst Abuser' of Internet Freedom in NGO Survey

By Paul Eckert
2015-10-28

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-internet-10282015170233.html

U.S. non-governmental organization again ranked China as the “worst abuser of internet freedom” in an annual survey that found 32 of 65 countries assessed moving on a “negative trajectory” in the year since June 2014.

The Washington-based said global internet freedom has declined for the fifth consecutive year, “with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content.”

China, which scored 88 on a scale on which 100 was the worst, saw an erosion of its previous year’s score of 87, as President Xi Jinping deepened his stress on “cyber sovereignty” as a priority for sustaining Communist Party rule over the nation of 1.3 billion people.

“Over the past year, the renewed emphasis on information controlled to acts of unconcealed aggression against internet freedom,” said the report.

“Internet users endured crackdowns on “rumors,” greater enforcement of rules against anonymity, and disruptions to the circumvention tools that are commonly used to bypass censorship,” it said.

“Though not entirely new, these measures were implemented with unprecedented intensity,” the report added.

Freedom House said the Xi administration’s quest for control meant tough policies for foreign Internet companies, including Google, as well as “undermining of digital security protocols, and its ongoing erosion of user rights, including through extralegal detentions and the imposition of prison sentences for online speech.”

"50 cent" commenters

The report highlighted China’s monitoring, censorship and manipulation of content – tasks it said were carried out by thousands of people employed by party propaganda department, government agencies, and private companies.

“A range of issues are systematically censored, including independent evaluations of China’s human rights record, critiques of government policy, and the authorities’ treatment of ethnic minorities,” said Freedom House.

The report noted that in addition to at least tens of thousands of so-called “50 cent” commenters – those paid to post pro-government comments or derail critical discussions of China on-line – deployed in China, Chinese authorities also use paid commenters abroad, including on social media platforms that are banned in China, like Twitter.

“Approximately 2,500 ‘50 Cent’ users on Twitter follow and retweet one another in order to create confusion and mislead the public,” it said.

The only countries where the internet was deemed less free than China were Syria and Iran, while the Middle East saw the sharpest deterioration in the year covered in the survey.

Vietnam – which like China is a one-party state led by Communists – scored a 76 and “with 29 netizens imprisoned … continues to be one of the worst jailers of bloggers in the world,” said the report.

“With fewer resources devoted to online content control than in China, the Vietnamese authorities have nevertheless established an effective content filtering system,” it said.

“Blocking in Vietnam primarily targets topics with the potential to threaten the Vietnam Communist Party’s (VCP) political power, including political dissent, human rights and democracy, as well as websites criticizing the government’s reaction to border and sea disputes between China and Vietnam,” said the report.

Old habits in Myanmar

Also rated “not free” by Freedom House was the internet of slowly democratizing Myanmar, which scored 63 on the scale.

“Internet freedom in Myanmar declined during the coverage period of this report in comparison with the progress made since the country undertook liberalization in 2011,” said the report.

In the country formerly called Burma that has emerged from nearly 50 years of hard-line army rule, “government and security forces stepped up intimidation of internet users during social protests, intensifying conflict in ethnic minority regions, and during preparation for the 2015 national elections,” it said.

Freedom House noted that while former military leader President Thein Sein officially ended media censorship in 2012, and allowed internet freedom to improve in 2013 “the situation began to deteriorate in late 2014 as the practices of the old regime were revived.”

Cambodia was rated “partly free” by Freedom House, which gave it a score of 48 and noted that the Internet remains the freest medium in the Southeast Asian country.

“A potentially repressive cybercrime law, leaked in draft form in early 2014, remains pending” in Phnom Penh, the report warned.

“A separate draft telecommunications law that threatens the privacy and anonymity of internet users through increased surveillance was leaked to the public in June 2014,” said Freedom House.

The 968-page report on 65 countries is published at https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/freedom-net-2015


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: Vika NSFW on October 30, 2015, 04:54:21 PM
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/trending/img/attachement/jpg/site1/20151030/b083fe95d630179d29ac01.jpg
Huang walks with stones on his feet and carries two dumbbells in his hands for 200 meters in Bairen village, Supo town, Chengdu, South China's Sichuan province, on Thursday. [Photo/IC]

Man walks with 50 kg stones on his feet

How much weight can you carry with your hands or on your back? Maybe 50kg, 100kg or something approaching the weightlifting world record of around 200 kg? But how about lifting loads with your feet?

A 55-year-old man, surnamed Huang, can surprisingly lift 50kg of stones with his feet and carry them, along with two dumbbells in his hands for 200 meters in Bairen village, Supo town in Chengdu, South China's Sichuan province, dfic.cn reported on Thursday.

Huang said that he's walked with stones on his feet every day for years as a way to exercise and he's "worn out" seven pairs of stones.

He also said that someone once challenged him but it ended with the challenger suffering a fractured foot bone.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/trending/2015-10/30/content_22325700.htm


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: Vika NSFW on October 31, 2015, 10:38:16 AM
A school with only one teacher and one student

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20151031/f8bc1269fd83179e475712.jpg

Sixin primary school is located in Gaoyang, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality. With the reform of rural education and urbanization, more and more rural students have gone to the central primary school in town. Wu Tao became the last student of Sixin primary school in 2013 as his parents engaged in farm work and they did not want their child to stay far away from them. The teacher who has been accompanying him in the school is Xiang Zhengguo. As the only teacher in the school, he teaches 10 courses including Chinese, math, PE, and music. Xiang takes on all teaching tasks. [Photo/Xinhua]

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20151028/wires_1446035463418_middle.jpg
Xiang Guozheng helps Wu Tao with his work. [Photo/Xinhua]

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20151031/f8bc1269fd83179e46ca0c.jpg
Xiang Guozheng gives a lesson to Wu Tao in Sixin primary school in Gaoyang, Chongqing on Oct 21. [Photo/Xinhua]

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20151031/f8bc1269fd83179e46fa0e.jpg
Xiang Guozheng and Wu Tao do physical exercise. [Photo/Xinhua]

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20151031/f8bc1269fd83179e471710.jpg
Xiang Guozheng has lunch with Wu Tao. [Photo/Xinhua]



Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: Vika NSFW on November 12, 2015, 12:15:50 PM
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New 100-yuan notes wheeled out in the factory of China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation, Oct 29. [Photo/Xinhua]

The People's Bank of China, which issued a new 100 yuan note today, has been transporting ever increasing quantities of renminbi to foreign countries to meet a growing demand for China's currency.
The central bank transported 50 billion yuan ($7.9 billion) in cash to Hong Kong, the country's offshore RMB center, during the first nine months of the year, an increase of more than 46 percent year-on-year, according to a bank insider in Shenzhen.
"From 2004 to 2007, we shipped less than 5 billion yuan cash to Hong Kong every year. We transported about 27 billion yuan cash annually since the demand for RMB cash surged in 2008," said Zhang Jianjun, director of the central bank's subcentral branch in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, which is responsible for 83 percent of China's cross-border RMB cash transportation in China.
In 2007, the central bank launched the first offshore RMB cash storage in Hong Kong managed by the Bank of China, which provides cash and flow-back services for overseas markets. So far, 221 foreign banks from 19 countries in Asia, North America, Europe, Oceania and Africa, have opened cash accounts with RMB Clearing Banks in Hong Kong.
RMB cash mainly crosses borders in one of two ways: carried by individuals and transported by commercial banks.
Since 2005, Chinese citizens and foreigners who leave or enter the country can carry no more than 20,000 yuan per person.
Chinese commercial banks in border areas cooperate with banks in neighboring countries on cash transportation, based on the bilateral local currency settlement agreements for border trade.
The central bank also authorized offshore RMB clearing banks in Hong Kong and Taiwan to transport cash.
The volume of cross-border RMB cash transported by banks is steadily increasing, according to a statement from the central bank. Last year, RMB cash transported in China reached 39.9 billion yuan, while 11.7 billion yuan was transported out. The total transported amount rose 23.2 percent from a year earlier.
"The increasing use of RMB cash in offshore markets will promote outbound tourism and business, as well as strengthen confidence of RMB internationalization among overseas investors," said Lo Pingwa, head of the Bank-wide Operation Department of Bank of China in Hong Kong.
The latest report from global transaction service provider SWIFT showed that the RMB remains the fifth-largest international payment currency by value, and accounted for 2.45 percent of global payments in September.
Michael Moon, head of payments for Asia Pacific at SWIFT, said that it is important to note that the RMBs underlying growth is trending positive.
"Such a trend is supported by an increasing number of corporates adopting the RMB for trade settlements, and a rising number of banks supporting those payments," Moon said.
The central regards the RMB note as China's business card and the new optical features of the 2015 version of the 100 yuan banknote are designed to improve protection against counterfeiting, with some advanced technologies especially developed for vending machines and ATMs.
The changes also make it easier for the public to discern a fake banknote, as the new note shows a more obvious security strip and a special color for the central "100".

http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/2015-11/12/content_22441012.htm
Currency detectors designed to detect counterfeit RMB notes have been upgraded for the new notes in domestic and foreign banks.


Title: Re: China issues report on human rights progress
Post by: Vika NSFW on November 12, 2015, 12:25:31 PM
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