A court in Jiangsu province sentenced Gu Yimin to 18 months in prison for "inciting subversion of the state" after he applied to hold a protest commemorating the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre last June.
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According to legal experts, Chinese prosecutors are increasingly torturing witnesses and suspected criminals during criminal interrogations.
Despite denying her timely, adequate medical care while she was under detention, Chinese authorities have denied any responsibility for the death of activist Cao Shunli, who died in a Beijing hospital on Friday, March 14.
The Communist Party deleted a host of public WeChat accounts this week without prior warning. The popular microblog, which boasts 271 million users, primarily functions as a means for people to communicate individually or in small groups. The website, however, also has more than two million public accounts, which can be viewed any WeChat user.
In a recent report titled “Enemies of the Internet,” Reporters Without Borders labeled Chinese cyberspace as the world’s most sophisticated Internet censorship system.
Chinese police beat three former inmates at the notorious Masanjia Reeducation-Through-Labor Camp who gathered at the Shenyang public security building to petition authorities for compensation for the suffering they endured.
Chinese authorities formally arrested prominent Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti, charging him with “secession” in relation to his public advocacy of Uighur rights.
Police detained more than 20 individuals who attempted to visit activist Cao Shunli at the 309 Military Hospital in Beijing.