The document provides a year-in-review of human rights issues in China in 2013. It summarizes protests over press censorship, exposes abuses at women's labor camps, and crackdowns on activists advocating for transparency, free speech, and children's rights. Journalists, lawyers, petitioners, and ethnic minority groups faced increased harassment, detention, and prosecution for exercising basic freedoms or advocating for political reforms. Despite new laws, human rights conditions in China continued to deteriorate as authorities suppressed dissent and tightened control over civil society.
CHRD’s image gallery of the year in human rights defense in ChinaCHRDnet
This document provides a year-end review of the human rights situation in China in 2013. It summarizes numerous instances where Chinese authorities cracked down on basic freedoms, including arrests of activists advocating for press freedom, exposing abuse in re-education camps, and peaceful protests. Lawyers and journalists faced intimidation and detention for their work. Controls on the internet and social media were heightened, and ethnic minorities saw increased restrictions and criminalization of online activity.
Harsh Climate for Human Rights Defenders in China:2014 in Photos 中国大陆人权捍卫者面临严...CHRDnet
In 2014, Chinese activists, writers, lawyers, journalists, artists, and citizens experienced one of the harshest years in government repression and retaliation. CHRD has recorded nearly 1,000 detentions in 2014 for exercising and defending human rights. We have produced an image gallery showcasing major trends and figures in China’s human rights landscape of 2014.
2014年是中国政府打压活跃人士、律师、作家、记者、艺术家和其他维权公民最为 严峻的一年,他们因为行使和保护人权受到报复。这一年,我们经核实统计了近 一千例剥夺人权捍卫者人身自由的个案。我们并且整理了一个图片库回顾2014.e
1. The report documents cases of enforced disappearance, torture, and ill-treatment of political activists and protesters in Egypt by the National Security Agency (NSA) since 2015. Victims were detained without charge for weeks or months and denied contact with families or lawyers.
2. Methods of torture included electric shocks, beatings, suspension by the limbs, sexual abuse, and forcing detainees to falsely confess or implicate others. Prosecutors failed to investigate torture allegations and relied on coerced confessions.
3. Enforced disappearances are being used as a policy to extract confessions, intimidate dissent, and commit human rights violations with impunity. Despite evidence, the government denies the violations and acc
The document discusses several political and media scandals in India involving sexual harassment and abuse of power. It provides details on scandals such as the Jessica Lal murder case, the Geetika Sharma suicide case involving politician Gopal Kanda, and sexual assault allegations against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal. It also discusses the challenges around media activism and trials by media in high profile cases.
The Press of India is considered one of the most independent Presses all over the world. But is it really true?
Do we really have a free press in the country?
Gallery Secret Detention & Abuse of Women in China’s “Black Jails”franceseve
This document discusses the abuse of women in secret detention facilities called "black jails" in China. It describes how black jails operate without due legal process and how women detained there often face physical, sexual, and verbal abuse. It provides examples of specific cases of torture, beatings, sexual assault, deprivation of basic needs and medical care of women held in black jails. The document indicates that black jails exist across China and highlights the lack of accountability for abuses and access to justice for victims.
Protests, Uprisings, and Human Rights in Modern Day ChinaGabe Passmore
This paper analyzes recent protests and uprisings in China and explores their connection to human rights abuses. It discusses how the Chinese government has a long history of corruption and human rights violations. Many of the protests are a result of issues with land expropriation by local governments, including forced relocation, low compensation, and embezzlement of funds. Other causes of unrest include censorship, lack of political freedom, and ethnic/religious tensions in places like Tibet and Xinjiang. The government often responds to protests with violence and arrests. Overall, the paper examines how lack of political rights and human rights abuses have fueled growing dissent across China in recent years.
Ukraine's 2017 Human Rights Report discusses several issues, including:
1) Unlawful killings and disappearances related to the conflict in eastern Ukraine between government and Russian-led forces.
2) Torture by police and prison authorities, and reports of torture by both government and Russian-led forces in eastern Ukraine.
3) Harsh and life-threatening prison conditions, including overcrowding, lack of medical care, and physical abuse by guards.
CHRD’s image gallery of the year in human rights defense in ChinaCHRDnet
This document provides a year-end review of the human rights situation in China in 2013. It summarizes numerous instances where Chinese authorities cracked down on basic freedoms, including arrests of activists advocating for press freedom, exposing abuse in re-education camps, and peaceful protests. Lawyers and journalists faced intimidation and detention for their work. Controls on the internet and social media were heightened, and ethnic minorities saw increased restrictions and criminalization of online activity.
Harsh Climate for Human Rights Defenders in China:2014 in Photos 中国大陆人权捍卫者面临严...CHRDnet
In 2014, Chinese activists, writers, lawyers, journalists, artists, and citizens experienced one of the harshest years in government repression and retaliation. CHRD has recorded nearly 1,000 detentions in 2014 for exercising and defending human rights. We have produced an image gallery showcasing major trends and figures in China’s human rights landscape of 2014.
2014年是中国政府打压活跃人士、律师、作家、记者、艺术家和其他维权公民最为 严峻的一年,他们因为行使和保护人权受到报复。这一年,我们经核实统计了近 一千例剥夺人权捍卫者人身自由的个案。我们并且整理了一个图片库回顾2014.e
1. The report documents cases of enforced disappearance, torture, and ill-treatment of political activists and protesters in Egypt by the National Security Agency (NSA) since 2015. Victims were detained without charge for weeks or months and denied contact with families or lawyers.
2. Methods of torture included electric shocks, beatings, suspension by the limbs, sexual abuse, and forcing detainees to falsely confess or implicate others. Prosecutors failed to investigate torture allegations and relied on coerced confessions.
3. Enforced disappearances are being used as a policy to extract confessions, intimidate dissent, and commit human rights violations with impunity. Despite evidence, the government denies the violations and acc
The document discusses several political and media scandals in India involving sexual harassment and abuse of power. It provides details on scandals such as the Jessica Lal murder case, the Geetika Sharma suicide case involving politician Gopal Kanda, and sexual assault allegations against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal. It also discusses the challenges around media activism and trials by media in high profile cases.
The Press of India is considered one of the most independent Presses all over the world. But is it really true?
Do we really have a free press in the country?
Gallery Secret Detention & Abuse of Women in China’s “Black Jails”franceseve
This document discusses the abuse of women in secret detention facilities called "black jails" in China. It describes how black jails operate without due legal process and how women detained there often face physical, sexual, and verbal abuse. It provides examples of specific cases of torture, beatings, sexual assault, deprivation of basic needs and medical care of women held in black jails. The document indicates that black jails exist across China and highlights the lack of accountability for abuses and access to justice for victims.
Protests, Uprisings, and Human Rights in Modern Day ChinaGabe Passmore
This paper analyzes recent protests and uprisings in China and explores their connection to human rights abuses. It discusses how the Chinese government has a long history of corruption and human rights violations. Many of the protests are a result of issues with land expropriation by local governments, including forced relocation, low compensation, and embezzlement of funds. Other causes of unrest include censorship, lack of political freedom, and ethnic/religious tensions in places like Tibet and Xinjiang. The government often responds to protests with violence and arrests. Overall, the paper examines how lack of political rights and human rights abuses have fueled growing dissent across China in recent years.
Ukraine's 2017 Human Rights Report discusses several issues, including:
1) Unlawful killings and disappearances related to the conflict in eastern Ukraine between government and Russian-led forces.
2) Torture by police and prison authorities, and reports of torture by both government and Russian-led forces in eastern Ukraine.
3) Harsh and life-threatening prison conditions, including overcrowding, lack of medical care, and physical abuse by guards.
Ukraine held free and fair elections in 2014 but faced significant human rights issues, including unlawful killings and disappearances related to the conflict in eastern Ukraine against Russian-led forces. The government generally failed to prosecute officials accused of human rights abuses, resulting in impunity. Prisons and detention centers had harsh conditions and reports of torture, and investigations into abuses by Russia in Crimea and eastern Ukraine were incomplete due to lack of control in those areas.
NAPM Final report state repession in uttar pradesh (31st dec, 2019)sabrangsabrang
The document summarizes the situation in Uttar Pradesh, India following widespread protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act. It reports that at least 20 people have died due to police firing and brutality across the state. Over 1,000 people have been arrested and thousands detained, many of them Muslims. There have also been reports of police violence targeting Muslims, destruction of property, and an internet shutdown affecting 21 districts. The response from authorities has widely been seen as aiming to suppress dissent through intimidation and repression.
MYANMAR: ANNUAL REPORT COUNTRY ENTRY 2016 By Amnesty International, ENGLISH V...MYO AUNG Myanmar
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/3511/2016/my/
ENGLISH VERSION-
MYANMAR: ANNUAL REPORT COUNTRY ENTRY 2016
By Amnesty International, 24 February 2016, Index number: ASA 16/3511/2016
Authorities failed to address rising religious intolerance and incitement to discrimination and violence against
Muslims, allowing hardline Buddhist nationalist groups to grow in power and influence ahead of the November
general elections. The situation of the persecuted Rohingya deteriorated still further. The government
intensified a clampdown on freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly. Reports of abuses of
international human rights and humanitarian law in areas of internal armed conflict persisted. Security forces
suspected of human rights violations continued to enjoy near-total impunity.
The document analyzes data from the Community to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on the number of journalists imprisoned around the world. It finds that the worldwide total of journalists in prison reached a 15-year high in 2011, driven largely by increases in Iran and Turkey. Freelance journalists made up about 45% of those imprisoned. The most common charges against jailed journalists were anti-state charges and violations of censorship rules. In some cases, governments used unrelated charges like drug possession to retaliate against critical journalists. For the first time in over a decade, China was not among the leading jailers of journalists, though its total remained consistent. No Cuban journalists were imprisoned as of 2011, after a crackdown earlier in the
The document discusses human rights violations during the ongoing Syrian civil war, focusing on abuses committed by Syrian government forces and armed opposition groups. It details widespread torture, unlawful killing of civilians and prisoners, use of child soldiers, sexual violence including against male detainees, indiscriminate attacks on populated areas, and suppression of journalists reporting on the conflict. While both sides have committed abuses, evidence indicates the government, through its security forces and pro-government militias, has been responsible for the vast majority of serious human rights violations in Syria.
The report documents how the Delhi Police framed and arrested constitutional rights defenders in India who were protesting new citizenship laws. It details how the police failed to control violence against Muslims in February 2020, and instead targeted Muslims and activists by fabricating a conspiracy theory. The report charges the police with complicity in the violence, failing to help survivors, refusing to file complaints against perpetrators, and arresting protesters to silence dissent. It aims to show how the police manufactured evidence to criminalize legitimate protests.
Plus d’une douzaine de militants anti-corruption à Pékin et dans la province de Jiangxi ont été arrêtés entre
fin mars et fin mai, après avoir participé à, ou organisé des manifestations appelant les dignitaires du
gouvernement à révéler leur patrimoine.
Depuis le 7 mai, neuf militants – dont Ding Jiaxi,– ont été officiellement arrêtés. Ding Jiaxi est détenu au
centre de détention n°3 à Pékin. Les chefs d’accusations incluent «rassemblement illégal», «incitation à la
subversion du pouvoir de l’État», «trouble de l’ordre social» et «détournement». L’incitation à la subversion
peut entraîner une peine allant jusqu’à 15 ans de prison et les autres infractions entraînent jusqu’à 5 ans.
Argentina is a federal constitutional republic led by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The document summarizes key human rights issues in Argentina, including occasional police use of excessive force resulting in deaths, actions that may impair press freedom, and infringements on indigenous peoples' rights. It also notes poor prison conditions, arbitrary arrest and detention, prolonged pretrial detention, concerns about judicial efficiency and independence, official corruption, and other issues. While authorities prosecuted some officials for abuses, others acted with impunity.
US STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE 2018 BURMA HUMAN RIGHT REPORT ON 13-3-2019 MYO AUNG Myanmar
US STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE 2018 BURMA HUMAN RIGHT REPORT ON 13-3-2019
https://burmese.voanews.com/a/us-state-department-human-rights-report-2019/4827968.html?ltflags=mailer
ျမန္မာ့ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး စိုးရိမ္မကင္းျဖစ္မႈ ကန္အစီရင္ခံစာ ေထာက္ျပ
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2019/03/290295.htm
https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/289277.pdf
One year after the Umbrella Revolution protests in Hong Kong that called for universal suffrage, student leaders like Alex Chow who organized the protests now face political backlash and restrictions on academic freedom. However, the revolutionary spirit remains as the movement has shifted to a more grassroots, bottom-up approach through local community organizing and elections to create long-term democratic reform.
This document provides background information on the Umbrella Movement that occurred in Hong Kong in 2014. It describes the movement as a massive public demonstration and civil disobedience movement that lasted 79 days and involved the occupation of major financial districts. The core goal of the movement was to achieve genuine universal suffrage and democracy in Hong Kong's elections. However, the people of Hong Kong viewed China's political framework for the 2017 chief executive election as establishing a "fake universal suffrage" that would only allow pro-Beijing candidates to run. This disappointment and desire for true democracy was a major factor that sparked the Umbrella Movement protests.
Bulletin21 may 2014 Relation Sandro Suzart SUZART GOOGLE INC United St...Sandro Suzart
relationship between Sandro Suzart SUZART GOOGLE INC and United States on Demonstrations 2013 and Impeachments of 22 governments Relation, Sandro Suzart, SUZART, GOOGLE INC, United States on Demonstrations countries IMPEACHMENT GOOGLE INC
The document discusses democracy in Hong Kong and the author's experiences studying there. Some key points:
1) The author interned at an organization promoting Hong Kong democracy and witnessed the Legislative Council and protests.
2) The functional constituency system, where only half members are elected, is undemocratic.
3) While economic growth has occurred, democracy has declined as Beijing delays universal suffrage until 2017.
4) Issues like human rights, women's rights, and education have improved but the political system remains stagnant.
This document provides information about various global protest movements in 2014. It discusses protests in Hong Kong where tens of thousands demonstrated against China's restrictions on democracy. It also summarizes unrest in Romania over poverty and unemployment, protests in Turkey over development plans and restrictions on freedom of expression, Israel's social justice movement against rising costs of living, and Bolivian protests against a highway being built through indigenous lands.
O documento fornece uma introdução sobre moedas comunitárias em Portugal, discutindo conceitos-chave, metodologia e codificação. Resume as principais características das moedas comunitárias e lista 23 sistemas identificados em Portugal.
Enterprise grade firewall and ssl termination to ac by will stevensbuildacloud
CloudOps has add support for enterprise grade security products in ACS. CloudOps has developed an integration with the Palo Alto Networks firewall appliance to enable ACS to orchestrate network features such as network creation, Source NAT, Static NAT, Port Forwarding and Firewall rules on the Palo Alto device. Additionally, CloudOps has extended ACS to support SSL certificate management as well as SSL termination by external load balancers. The existing ACS NetScaler plugin has been improved to support this new SSL termination functionality. The talk will cover the features added as well as a basic overview of how they are used.
Will Stevens is the Lead Developer at CloudOps. He has been directly involved in extending ACS to support more enterprise grade security functionality. Will has over 10 years experience as a software developer and is primarily focused on cloud integrations at CloudOps.
History of Information: Classical, Medieval, Modern theory
Open problem of Information: The unification of various theories of information; What is useful/meaningful information?What is an adequate logic of information? Continuous versus discrete models of nature; Computation versus thermodynamics; Classical information versus quantum information; Information and the theory of everything; The Church-Turing Hypothesis; P versus NP?
It from Bit: Why the Quantum? It from Bit? A Participatory Universe?: Three Far-reaching, Visionary Questions from John Archibald Wheeler
Physic, Math, Information: String Theory, Quantum, Sporadic finite Groups, Leech Latice, Gravity as emergent,
Universe digital copy conjecture: representation of universal information
Emergent Transformation Conjecture: the math of emergent
Potential applications: Deep Learning; Capability Transformation using Enterprise Architect
What’s in it for us: Information science, getting ready for Industry 4.0
Ukraine held free and fair elections in 2014 but faced significant human rights issues, including unlawful killings and disappearances related to the conflict in eastern Ukraine against Russian-led forces. The government generally failed to prosecute officials accused of human rights abuses, resulting in impunity. Prisons and detention centers had harsh conditions and reports of torture, and investigations into abuses by Russia in Crimea and eastern Ukraine were incomplete due to lack of control in those areas.
NAPM Final report state repession in uttar pradesh (31st dec, 2019)sabrangsabrang
The document summarizes the situation in Uttar Pradesh, India following widespread protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act. It reports that at least 20 people have died due to police firing and brutality across the state. Over 1,000 people have been arrested and thousands detained, many of them Muslims. There have also been reports of police violence targeting Muslims, destruction of property, and an internet shutdown affecting 21 districts. The response from authorities has widely been seen as aiming to suppress dissent through intimidation and repression.
MYANMAR: ANNUAL REPORT COUNTRY ENTRY 2016 By Amnesty International, ENGLISH V...MYO AUNG Myanmar
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/3511/2016/my/
ENGLISH VERSION-
MYANMAR: ANNUAL REPORT COUNTRY ENTRY 2016
By Amnesty International, 24 February 2016, Index number: ASA 16/3511/2016
Authorities failed to address rising religious intolerance and incitement to discrimination and violence against
Muslims, allowing hardline Buddhist nationalist groups to grow in power and influence ahead of the November
general elections. The situation of the persecuted Rohingya deteriorated still further. The government
intensified a clampdown on freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly. Reports of abuses of
international human rights and humanitarian law in areas of internal armed conflict persisted. Security forces
suspected of human rights violations continued to enjoy near-total impunity.
The document analyzes data from the Community to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on the number of journalists imprisoned around the world. It finds that the worldwide total of journalists in prison reached a 15-year high in 2011, driven largely by increases in Iran and Turkey. Freelance journalists made up about 45% of those imprisoned. The most common charges against jailed journalists were anti-state charges and violations of censorship rules. In some cases, governments used unrelated charges like drug possession to retaliate against critical journalists. For the first time in over a decade, China was not among the leading jailers of journalists, though its total remained consistent. No Cuban journalists were imprisoned as of 2011, after a crackdown earlier in the
The document discusses human rights violations during the ongoing Syrian civil war, focusing on abuses committed by Syrian government forces and armed opposition groups. It details widespread torture, unlawful killing of civilians and prisoners, use of child soldiers, sexual violence including against male detainees, indiscriminate attacks on populated areas, and suppression of journalists reporting on the conflict. While both sides have committed abuses, evidence indicates the government, through its security forces and pro-government militias, has been responsible for the vast majority of serious human rights violations in Syria.
The report documents how the Delhi Police framed and arrested constitutional rights defenders in India who were protesting new citizenship laws. It details how the police failed to control violence against Muslims in February 2020, and instead targeted Muslims and activists by fabricating a conspiracy theory. The report charges the police with complicity in the violence, failing to help survivors, refusing to file complaints against perpetrators, and arresting protesters to silence dissent. It aims to show how the police manufactured evidence to criminalize legitimate protests.
Plus d’une douzaine de militants anti-corruption à Pékin et dans la province de Jiangxi ont été arrêtés entre
fin mars et fin mai, après avoir participé à, ou organisé des manifestations appelant les dignitaires du
gouvernement à révéler leur patrimoine.
Depuis le 7 mai, neuf militants – dont Ding Jiaxi,– ont été officiellement arrêtés. Ding Jiaxi est détenu au
centre de détention n°3 à Pékin. Les chefs d’accusations incluent «rassemblement illégal», «incitation à la
subversion du pouvoir de l’État», «trouble de l’ordre social» et «détournement». L’incitation à la subversion
peut entraîner une peine allant jusqu’à 15 ans de prison et les autres infractions entraînent jusqu’à 5 ans.
Argentina is a federal constitutional republic led by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The document summarizes key human rights issues in Argentina, including occasional police use of excessive force resulting in deaths, actions that may impair press freedom, and infringements on indigenous peoples' rights. It also notes poor prison conditions, arbitrary arrest and detention, prolonged pretrial detention, concerns about judicial efficiency and independence, official corruption, and other issues. While authorities prosecuted some officials for abuses, others acted with impunity.
US STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE 2018 BURMA HUMAN RIGHT REPORT ON 13-3-2019 MYO AUNG Myanmar
US STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE 2018 BURMA HUMAN RIGHT REPORT ON 13-3-2019
https://burmese.voanews.com/a/us-state-department-human-rights-report-2019/4827968.html?ltflags=mailer
ျမန္မာ့ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး စိုးရိမ္မကင္းျဖစ္မႈ ကန္အစီရင္ခံစာ ေထာက္ျပ
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2019/03/290295.htm
https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/289277.pdf
One year after the Umbrella Revolution protests in Hong Kong that called for universal suffrage, student leaders like Alex Chow who organized the protests now face political backlash and restrictions on academic freedom. However, the revolutionary spirit remains as the movement has shifted to a more grassroots, bottom-up approach through local community organizing and elections to create long-term democratic reform.
This document provides background information on the Umbrella Movement that occurred in Hong Kong in 2014. It describes the movement as a massive public demonstration and civil disobedience movement that lasted 79 days and involved the occupation of major financial districts. The core goal of the movement was to achieve genuine universal suffrage and democracy in Hong Kong's elections. However, the people of Hong Kong viewed China's political framework for the 2017 chief executive election as establishing a "fake universal suffrage" that would only allow pro-Beijing candidates to run. This disappointment and desire for true democracy was a major factor that sparked the Umbrella Movement protests.
Bulletin21 may 2014 Relation Sandro Suzart SUZART GOOGLE INC United St...Sandro Suzart
relationship between Sandro Suzart SUZART GOOGLE INC and United States on Demonstrations 2013 and Impeachments of 22 governments Relation, Sandro Suzart, SUZART, GOOGLE INC, United States on Demonstrations countries IMPEACHMENT GOOGLE INC
The document discusses democracy in Hong Kong and the author's experiences studying there. Some key points:
1) The author interned at an organization promoting Hong Kong democracy and witnessed the Legislative Council and protests.
2) The functional constituency system, where only half members are elected, is undemocratic.
3) While economic growth has occurred, democracy has declined as Beijing delays universal suffrage until 2017.
4) Issues like human rights, women's rights, and education have improved but the political system remains stagnant.
This document provides information about various global protest movements in 2014. It discusses protests in Hong Kong where tens of thousands demonstrated against China's restrictions on democracy. It also summarizes unrest in Romania over poverty and unemployment, protests in Turkey over development plans and restrictions on freedom of expression, Israel's social justice movement against rising costs of living, and Bolivian protests against a highway being built through indigenous lands.
O documento fornece uma introdução sobre moedas comunitárias em Portugal, discutindo conceitos-chave, metodologia e codificação. Resume as principais características das moedas comunitárias e lista 23 sistemas identificados em Portugal.
Enterprise grade firewall and ssl termination to ac by will stevensbuildacloud
CloudOps has add support for enterprise grade security products in ACS. CloudOps has developed an integration with the Palo Alto Networks firewall appliance to enable ACS to orchestrate network features such as network creation, Source NAT, Static NAT, Port Forwarding and Firewall rules on the Palo Alto device. Additionally, CloudOps has extended ACS to support SSL certificate management as well as SSL termination by external load balancers. The existing ACS NetScaler plugin has been improved to support this new SSL termination functionality. The talk will cover the features added as well as a basic overview of how they are used.
Will Stevens is the Lead Developer at CloudOps. He has been directly involved in extending ACS to support more enterprise grade security functionality. Will has over 10 years experience as a software developer and is primarily focused on cloud integrations at CloudOps.
History of Information: Classical, Medieval, Modern theory
Open problem of Information: The unification of various theories of information; What is useful/meaningful information?What is an adequate logic of information? Continuous versus discrete models of nature; Computation versus thermodynamics; Classical information versus quantum information; Information and the theory of everything; The Church-Turing Hypothesis; P versus NP?
It from Bit: Why the Quantum? It from Bit? A Participatory Universe?: Three Far-reaching, Visionary Questions from John Archibald Wheeler
Physic, Math, Information: String Theory, Quantum, Sporadic finite Groups, Leech Latice, Gravity as emergent,
Universe digital copy conjecture: representation of universal information
Emergent Transformation Conjecture: the math of emergent
Potential applications: Deep Learning; Capability Transformation using Enterprise Architect
What’s in it for us: Information science, getting ready for Industry 4.0
This document tracks employee recruitment and visa information including the employee name, position, dates the position was requested and offered, when the visa was applied for and received, and the expected arrival date. Key dates like when the position was requested, offers were made and accepted, and visa application are recorded along with the current status and remarks.
The document is a presentation introducing PM2.5 measurements in urban China. It discusses why PM2.5 has become a focus, how it is characterized, its sources and environmental impacts. It describes PM2.5 particles as small aerosols that can penetrate deep into lungs and cause health issues. Major sources include industry, transportation and coal burning. Monitoring of PM2.5 is important to understand air quality issues and protect public health.
220913 being righteous in an unrighteous corrupted societyterry5428
This document discusses how Noah remained righteous in a corrupt society like in the days of Genesis. It notes that Noah was found blameless by God and walked with God, obeying his every word. Even though the world in Noah's day and today's world are full of violence and corruption, Noah maintained his righteousness. The document encourages readers to remain righteous like Noah by being good in God's eyes, not condoning evil, obeying God, and fearing Him.
La Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) es una organización internacional formada por 192 países que se reúnen voluntariamente para trabajar juntos en favor de la paz, la seguridad, los derechos humanos y el desarrollo económico y social. La ONU fue creada en 1945 cuando 51 países firmaron la Carta de las Naciones Unidas con el objetivo de prevenir futuras guerras mundiales.
Managing scalable infrastructure based on monitoringForthscale
A presentation from #CCCEU13. It is based on Forthscale`s method of running scalable infrastructure with the help of monitoring systems. Now updated as for OpsTalk TLV
China, Law and the Foreigner: Mutual Engagements on a Global StageLarry Catá Backer
Prepared for the Conference: “Foreigners and Modern Chinese Law”, Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, July 9-10, 2016; Organized by Profgessors Xu Zhangrun and Chen Xinyu
O Public Knowledge Project (PKP) está lançando uma aplicação da métrica em nível de artigo da PloS (PLOS’ Article Level Metrics, ALM) focado em periódicos do mundo em desenvolvimento. O serviço tem o potencial de alcançar milhares de periódicos que utilizam o Open Journal System que, caso bem sucedido, pode incentivar editores de periódicos a orientar suas revistas a um público mais amplo. A apresentação apresenta o novo serviço ALM da PKP e os desafios encontrados, bem como um primeiro olhar para as métricas de todos os artigos publicados no SciELO Brasil em 2012. A apresentação fornece o primeiro e inédito olhar nas métricas em nível de artigo de um país Latino Americano e convida editores de periódicos e publishers a participar usando o Open Journal Systems, inscrevendo-se para ter acesso ao serviço.
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is beginning to roll out an implementation of PLOS’ Article Level Metrics application focused on journals in the developing world. The service has the potential to reach thousands of journals using Open Journal Systems and, if successful, can encourage journal editors to steer their journals towards a broader public. The presentation introduces PKP’s new ALM service and the challenges encountered, as well as a first look at the metrics of all articles published in SciELO Brazil in 2012. The presentation provides the first-ever glance at article level metrics of a Latin American country and invites journal publishers and editors using Open Journal Systems to participate by signing up for the service.
El Public Knowledge Project (PKP) está empezando a desarrollar una implementación del Article Level Metrics de PLOS enfocada a las revistas más importantes del mundo en desarrollo. El servicio tiene el potencial de llegar a miles de revistas usando Open Journal Systems y, si tiene éxito, puede animar a los editores de revistas para dirigir sus revistas a un público más amplio. La presentación introduce el nuevo servicio ALM de PKP y los desafíos que enfrenta, así como un primer vistazo a los indicadores de todos los artículos publicados en SciELO Brasil, en 2012. La presentación ofrece por primera vez una mirada a métricas a nivel de artículo de un país latinoamericano, e invita a los editores de revistas y editores con Open Journal Systems a participar inscribiéndose en el servicio.
This document discusses Go and strategies for developing Go-playing AI programs. It summarizes the state space and game tree complexity of Go compared to other games. Early Go programs used rule-based strategies and domain knowledge. More recent programs like AlphaGo use neural networks trained through reinforcement learning from self-play to predict moves and evaluate board positions, combined with Monte Carlo tree search to achieve superhuman performance at Go.
This document profiles 16 individuals who were detained in China for their involvement in peaceful activism and advocacy work. It provides basic background information on each detainee, describing their history of rights advocacy, areas of focus (e.g. intellectual property rights, anti-corruption efforts, housing rights), and details about their recent detentions related to a crackdown on free expression. Photos accompany each profile.
Le prix Ludovic Trarieux 2016 a été décerné à l'avocate chinoise Wang Yu, membre du cabinet Fengrui (Chine), déjà honoré par le prix des droits de l'homme 2015 du C.C.B.E.
RAPPORT 2013 DU DEPARTEMENT D'ETAT SUR LA SITUATION DE DROITS HUMAINS EN HAITIStanleylucas
Chaque année le Département d'Etat des Etats Unis publie en Février son rapport annuel sur la situation des droits humains dans chaque pays sur la planète. Cette année, Février 2014, Haiti fait partie de ce rapport comme a l'accoutume. Le rapport note les progrès enregistres dans le domaine des droits humains en Haiti et mentionne les cas de violations individuels de droits humains. Le rapport identifie les déficiences des institutions étatiques et fait des recommandations specifiques sur ce qu'il faut améliorer.
Freedom of Expression in RussiaAs much as the fre.docxhanneloremccaffery
Freedom of expression is limited in Russia, especially for government critics. The Russian government controls media by restricting the internet and television, and newspapers practice widespread self-censorship. Those who express unwelcome views face pressure from authorities. New legislation further restricts freedom of expression. The government also jails and assassinates opposition leaders and journalists who criticize the government or Putin. Over 25 journalists have been assassinated since Putin took office.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016 Burma-Bureau of Democracy,...MYO AUNG Myanmar
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016
Burma
https://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/#wrapper
2016 Human Rights Reports – Secretary’s Preface
https://www.forbes.com/profile/rex-tillerson/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Tillerson
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index.htm?year=2016&dlid=265324
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016
Burma
Burma has a quasi-parliamentary system of government in which the national parliament selects the president, and constitutional provisions grant one-quarter of national, regional, and state parliamentary seats to active duty military appointees; all other seats are open to elections. The military also has the authority to appoint the ministers of defense, home affairs, and border affairs and assume power indefinitely over all branches of the government should the president declare a national state of emergency. In November 2015 the country held nationwide parliamentary elections that the public widely accepted as a credible reflection of the will of the people. The then opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), chaired by Aung San Suu Kyi, won 390 of 491 contested seats in the bicameral parliament. Parliament elected NLD member U Htin Kyaw as president in March and created the position of State Counsellor for Aung San Suu Kyi in April, cementing her position as the country’s de facto leader.
Civilian authorities did not maintain effective control over the security forces.
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The document summarizes the 2016 human rights report on Egypt. It notes that while elections were administered professionally according to the country's laws, freedoms of expression, assembly, and association were constrained. The main human rights issues were excessive use of force by security forces, due process deficiencies, and suppression of civil liberties including restrictions on media and protests. Impunity for security forces was also a problem. Terrorist attacks caused unlawful killings while the military's operations in Sinai led to civilian casualties and property destruction. Forced disappearances increased with hundreds detained without charge.
Plaintiff Hong Wang is opposing the defendant's motion to dismiss and provides documentation supporting allegations of genocide and illegal organ harvesting in China. The documents describe evidence including: testimony from Chinese physicians about organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners and Uighurs while still alive; investigations concluding that the large number of transplants in China could not have come from voluntary donors; materials provided by Wang Lijun to the US State Department in 2012 may have contained information about organ harvesting; and a request for the State Department to release any relevant information, including Hillary Clinton's emails from her time as Secretary of State. The plaintiff argues that US government officials could be considered accessories if they were aware of these human rights abuses but did not act to stop
Human Rights Practices for 2015 UkraineАндрій Пізнюк
1) Separatists in eastern Ukraine committed widespread human rights abuses such as abductions, torture, unlawful detention and restricted humanitarian aid. The conflict has resulted in over 9,000 deaths and more than two million people have fled the region.
2) In Crimea, Russian occupation authorities committed human rights abuses targeting Crimean Tatars and others opposing the occupation. More than 20,000 Crimeans have been displaced.
3) Ukraine suffers from corruption, deficiencies in justice, and a climate of impunity as authorities generally fail to prosecute officials who commit abuses. Investigations into human rights crimes remain incomplete.
This document is a complaint and affidavit in support of an application for arrest warrants against 38 individuals for conspiracy to transmit interstate threats and conspiracy to commit interstate harassment. The affidavit provides background on censorship and suppression of political dissent by the Chinese government. It then describes the investigation and evidence that the defendants worked together on behalf of the Chinese government to target Chinese dissidents and critics living outside of China.
This document provides an overview of anti-corruption efforts in China. It discusses the historical background of anti-corruption laws in China, highlighting a major campaign launched in 2012 under President Xi Jinping. The campaign has led to investigations and removal of thousands of officials on charges ranging from bribery to abuse of power. However, some argue the campaign is also being used by Xi to consolidate his own power. The document examines challenges like decoupling guanxi from corruption and implications such as the campaign's negative impact on China's economy and the Communist Party's image. Potential solutions discussed include stronger enforcement of transparent laws and empowering Chinese citizens to increase accountability.
Paulus Le Van Son is a 31-year-old Vietnamese blogger who was arrested in 2011 and sentenced to 13 years in prison for his activism on issues of human rights, democracy, and social justice. Some of the issues he wrote about included anti-China protests, government harassment of activists, and police abuse. His sentence was later reduced to 4 years in prison and 4 years of house arrest after he confessed, though he maintained he did nothing wrong. He is currently under house arrest until 2018.
La situation des avocats en Chine (update 18/06/2017)JLMB
The document summarizes the situation of lawyers in China following a crackdown in July 2015. It reports that while most of the over 300 detained lawyers and activists have since been released, two lawyers remain detained, three have been convicted, and 16 have been released but face ongoing intimidation. It provides details on three cases - Wang Quanzhang has been detained without trial for over 700 days and tortured; Jiang Tianyong was forcibly disappeared for over a month and may have been coerced to dismiss his lawyers; and Xie Yang has allegedly been tortured in detention and his family harassed. The document examines the ongoing crackdown on the legal profession in China nearly two years later.
The Limits of Official Tolerance - Albert R. ChenAlbert R Chen
1) The Aizhi Action Project (Aizhi) was one of China's earliest NGOs working in HIV/AIDS advocacy and faced challenges navigating the Chinese government's tolerance of independent organizations.
2) Aizhi's founder, Dr. Wan Yanhai, aimed to make the organization as independent as possible from the state in order to hold the government accountable, but faced increasing pressure from the government as Aizhi exposed corruption related to China's growing HIV/AIDS crisis.
3) In 2002, after Aizhi published criticisms of the government response and UN reports used Aizhi's data, the government closed down Aizhi's offices and later arrested Dr. Wan Yan
Rapport de 2020 du Département d'état sur la situation des droits de l'homme ...Stanleylucas
The document summarizes the 2020 Human Rights Report for Haiti. It describes the country's political system and elections. It notes political gridlock led the president to rule by decree as of January 2020 as parliamentary elections did not occur. The report discusses security forces and significant human rights issues including unlawful killings by gangs allegedly supported by officials, excessive police force, harsh prison conditions, arbitrary detention, corruption in the judiciary, attacks on journalists, corruption and impunity, and child labor. It provides details on reported killings, prison overcrowding, and allegations of torture by police.
The document summarizes Lithuania's 2014 human rights report. Some key issues included overcrowding and poor conditions in some prisons, discrimination against Roma and LGBT populations, and allegations of excessive force by police during arrests. While Lithuania is a parliamentary democracy, issues remained such as interference with privacy, limitations on free expression, and inadequate facilities for persons with disabilities. The government took steps to address issues like prosecuting officials for abuses and improving prison conditions and oversight.
What does the Chinese police do when they want to silence your freedom of expression? And when they know the police has no legal basis to arrest you? They detain you at a temporary jail - called black jails in China. 80% of the victims are women. They face torture, sexual assault, and physical abuse among other mistreatment.
This political essay discusses the importance of securing individual rights and freedoms for a liberal society to succeed. It argues that for one to have their own rights, they must also accept the rights of their opponents. However, it acknowledges that governments may need to temporarily suspend some rights during emergencies. The document uses examples like Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia to show that removing rights leads to chaos, so a liberal society should embrace protecting individual freedoms.
Hugo Chavez claimed his socialist revolution in Venezuela was peaceful and democratic, but the reality was more complicated. While initially mostly peaceful, democratic practices deteriorated during his time in office. Under Nicolas Maduro, who succeeded Chavez after his death, the situation has worsened with nationwide protests, shortages, and a serious government crackdown detaining nearly 3,000 citizens. A Human Rights Watch report details patterns of abuse by security forces against protesters, including firing rubber bullets at close range and live ammunition into crowds, which the report says are systematic practices that judges and prosecutors ignore. The government has not provided evidence for its claim that 41 deaths were due to protesters, while evidence suggests some were caused by pro-government
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) has produced a short guide for Hong Kongers on some practical steps to protect themselves online in light of the National Security Law. The 20-page guide includes instructions on secure messaging, email, and GPG. The guide is available in English and Chinese.
An Artist’s Take on Torture in China in Violation of the Convention against Torture
A Chinese artist produced a series of cartoons depicting torture methods used by Chinese police. The artist also illustrated the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment to contrast to reality on the ground in China.
On Human Rights Day in 2012, hundreds of Chinese citizens across multiple cities gathered publicly to protest widespread human rights abuses related to forced home demolitions, illegal detentions, and the abusive Re-education through Labor system. Police and thugs broke up some of the protests and thousands of petitioners in Beijing were detained while seeking justice and protections for basic rights around international offices.
Forced Eviction & Demolition/Land Expropriation
Hunan Man Crushed to Death by Construction Vehicle, Authorities Block News
A Hunan villager was crushed under a construction vehicle while desperately protesting a land seizure and home demolition project done to construct a highway, and officials moved aggressively to control the scene of the incident, placate the victim's family, and intimidate local residents. The villager, He Zhihua (何志华), had petitioned authorities after learning that his property in Changsha City was slated for government takeover and finding the compensation offered unfair. On September 16, He angrily confronted an official at the project site and lay down on the ground to halt construction. But the official reportedly ordered the work to continue, and a road leveling machine moved forward and ran over him. Authorities moved quickly to try to pay off He's family and also to prevent news of the incident from spreading by having cell phones confiscated at the scene. The next day, hundreds of security personnel surrounded the area, with some removing the victim's remains and beating villagers who tried to interfere.
from CHRD
This document contains photos from various organizations including the Community Resource and Legal Watch (CRLW), Human Rights Coordinating Committee (HRCC), and Equality and Justice Initiative. The photos are not described but appear to come from multiple advocacy groups focused on human rights and legal issues.
This document summarizes cases of human rights abuses through China's involuntary commitment system. It describes instances where individuals were forcibly committed and abused after petitioning the government or speaking out. They experienced forced medication, long-term detention, and lack of legal recourse. Commitment was used punitively against those who challenged authorities or sought explanations for injustices. The system allows family members and others to forcibly commit individuals without proper diagnosis or review.
This document discusses abuses of involuntary psychiatric commitment in China, including several cases where individuals were committed against their will after petitioning local authorities or losing their jobs. The cases describe violent treatment during forced commitments, false diagnoses with no means for legal appeal, illegal long-term commitments of over five years, and commitments authorized by families without a court ruling. The document raises concerns about a lack of oversight and legal protections for those involuntarily committed in China.
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Discover the essential tools and strategies for modern PR business success. Learn how to craft compelling news releases, leverage press release sites and news wires, stay updated with PR news, and integrate effective PR practices to enhance your brand's visibility and credibility. Elevate your PR efforts with our comprehensive guide.
An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
El informe CPPI utiliza dos enfoques metodológicos diferentes para calcular la clasificación del índice: uno administrativo o técnico y otro estadístico, basado en análisis factorial (FA). Según los autores, esta dualidad pretende asegurar una clasificación que refleje con precisión el rendimiento real del puerto, a la vez que sea estadísticamente sólida. En esta edición del informe CPPI 2023, se han empleado los mismos enfoques metodológicos y se ha aplicado un método de agregación de clasificaciones para combinar los resultados de ambos enfoques y obtener una clasificación agregada.
Acolyte Episodes review (TV series) The Acolyte. Learn about the influence of the program on the Star Wars world, as well as new characters and story twists.
Here is Gabe Whitley's response to my defamation lawsuit for him calling me a rapist and perjurer in court documents.
You have to read it to believe it, but after you read it, you won't believe it. And I included eight examples of defamatory statements/
2. CALLS FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
Demonstrators called for press freedoms outside the headquarters of the
Guangdong-based Southern Weekly newspaper in January 2013 after
propaganda officials interfered with the content of the paper’s New Year’s
message. One protestor, Liu Yuandong (刘远东) (far right), was later
arrested in part for his participation in the protest. He has been subjected to
mistreatment while in detention and was eventually tried for a number of
offenses in January 2014.
3. ABUSES EXPOSED AT WOMEN’S RE-EDUCATION THROUGH LABOR CAMP
Though the use of Re-education Through Labor (RTL) had been scaled down by the start
of 2013—and the government declared at the end of the year that the system would be
abolished—an official media exposé in April sparked outrage, revealing brutal
mistreatment of detainees at the Masanjia Women’s RTL camp (above left) in Liaoning
Province. Zhu Guiqin (朱桂芹) (above right) is among the women who suffered
horrendous abuses at the camp. Even with RTL’s impending end, human rights observers
worry that another similar system will simply “replace” it, and former RTL detainees still
have no clear channels for seeking recourse over abuses suffered in the camps.
4. BEIJING AUTHORITIES LAUNCH
CRACKDOWN ON BASIC RIGHTS
A crackdown on peaceful
assembly, association, and expression was
underway by late March and went on for the
rest of the year. Police in Beijing dragged
away four activists from the Xidan shopping
district on March 31 as they displayed banners
as a part of a peaceful anti-corruption
campaign, which included calling on the 200
highest-ranking Chinese government officials
to publicly disclose their wealth. These
activists were later arrested and court
proceedings opened in their cases in January
2014.
Zhang Baocheng (张宝成) (top left), Ma Xinli (马新立) (top right),
Hou Xin (侯欣) (bottom left)
5. HEIGHTENED CENSORSHIP OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Chinese authorities moved quickly all year to stifle speech that they deemed
politically or socially “sensitive,” censoring countless bloggers and
microbloggers. For example, Shanghai poet Pan Ting (潘婷) was the focus of
censors in March for posting messages online (above) after the corpses of
thousands of pigs were found floating in the Huangpu River, an
environmental incident that sparked criticism of government mismanagement.
In September, police detained Duan Xiaowen (段小文), known by his screen
name “Uncle Anti-Corruption” (反腐大叔观音土), on suspicion of “creating
a disturbance” after he exposed corruption by local officials online.
6. Photo: People’s Daily Online
FURTHER CRIMINALIZATION OF COMMUNICATIONS BY UYGHURS
Authorities tightened restrictions in Xinjiang by criminalizing forms of Internet use
by Uyghurs and, as elsewhere in China, detained large numbers of people due to
their online communications. In a particularly serious case, two Xinjiang courts in
March sentenced 20 Uyghurs on charges of “inciting splittism” (above). It is
believed that the convicted Uyghurs had only listened to foreign radio broadcasts
and gone online to discuss matters of religious and cultural freedom.
7. NEW CITIZENS’ MOVEMENT
Activists linked to the “New Citizen’s
Movement,” who had called for
political, legal, and social reforms since
2011, were especially targeted in the year’s
crackdown on civil society. Xu Zhiyong (许志
永) (top left), a prominent legal advocate who
spearheaded the movement, was taken into
custody in July. Xu had also founded the “Open
Constitution Initiative” (Gongmeng, 公盟), a
pro-democracy group that was banned in 2009.
(In January 2014, Xu received a four-year
sentence on a charge of “gathering a crowd to
disrupt order of a public place.”) Financier and
philanthropist Wang Gongquan (王功权)
(bottom left), a key benefactor of the
movement, was detained in September. In a
video confession reportedly made in December
(and most likely under coercion), Wang
admitted to “gathering a crowd to disrupt order”
and agreed to cut ties with Xu Zhiyong. He was
released on bail in January of 2014.
8. CHILDREN’S RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AS UN REVIEWS
CHINA’S RECORD ON PROTECTING CHILDREN
Rallies were held in Anhui Province in support of democracy activist Zhang Lin (张林)’s
daughter Annie Zhang (张安妮) (both above), who was blocked from attending
school, in part because of her father’s activism. Zhang Lin, along with Zhou Weilin (周
维林), Li Wei (李蔚), and Li Huaping (李化平), were all later arrested in connection to
the protests. In September, China was reviewed by the UN Committee on the Rights of
the Child, which expressed numerous concerns in its Concluding Observations, including
about reprisals against activists who have advocated for the rights of children.
9. REPRISALS AGAINST ACTIVISTS’
FAMILY MEMBERS
Chinese authorities in 2013 continued their
pattern of harassing family members of human
rights defenders. For example, police in
Shandong Province kept up intimidation of
relatives of activist Chen Guangcheng (陈光
诚), who is now living in the United States. In
April 2013, police summoned two of his
family members for questioning and
threatened his brother Chen Guangfu (陈光福)
(far left). Chen Guangfu is the father of Chen
Kegui (陈克贵), who is serving a prison
sentence in connection with his uncle’s escape
from house arrest in April 2012.
10. FLAGRANT RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST “JIANGXI THREE”
The trial of three Jiangxi activists seized in April for various human rights
activities—Liu Ping (刘萍) (female, standing second from right), Li Sihua (
李思华) (far left), and Wei Zhongping (魏忠平) (far right)—was delayed in
July and then suspended in October after their lawyers resigned over
several legal and procedural violations. When finally trying the group in
December, the court dismissed evidence of mistreatment and torture while
breaking myriad laws.
11. MENTAL HEALTH LAW COMES
INTO EFFECT BUT ABUSES
CONTINUE
China’s first Mental Health Law, which
took effect in May, includes a provision
stating psychiatric commitment must be
voluntary. Still, local authorities continue
to forcibly detain Chinese citizens in
mental institutions in retaliation against
rights defense efforts. Elderly Shanghaibased activist Fan Miaozhen (范妙珍)
(right) has been committed to psychiatric
facilities three times against her will, most
recently in October 2013.
12. REPRISALS AGAINST LAWYERS INTENSIFY
Both violent attacks and punitive administrative tactics were commonly
used to intimidate human rights lawyers in 2013. For example, a dozen
lawyers, including Jiang Tianyong (江天勇) (above), were taken into
custody in Sichuan Province in May and physically assaulted by police.
Meanwhile, judicial authorities, among other things, delayed license
renewals in order to disrupt lawyers’ work. Responding to frequent threats
and assaults against lawyers, hundreds of defense attorneys banded together
under the name “China Human Rights Lawyers Group” (中国人权律师团).
13. HARASSMENT OF INDEPENDENT
GROUPS & GRASSROOTS
LEADERS
2013 saw the forced closure or retreat of
outspoken independent groups, and
leaders of grassroots campaigns faced
severe harassment as well. In general,
groups working on issues of health and
discrimination that had more space in
previous years were subjected to greater
scrutiny. In May, police in Guangxi
Province detained and beat activist Ye
Haiyan (叶海燕) (left), who has long
been subjected to harassment for
championing the rights of sex workers
and persons infected with HIV/AIDS.
14. RETALIATION FOR DEMANDING CIVIL SOCIETY ROLE UN HUMAN RIGHTS
MECHANISMS
As China was gearing up for its second Universal Periodic Review before the UN Human Rights
Council in October, authorities suppressed civil society members seeking a role in preparations for
the review. Police monitored and broke up demonstrations outside of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
between June and October (left), and leading campaigners Cao Shunli (曹顺利) (right) and Chen
Jianfang (陈建芳) were blocked from attending UN human rights training activities in Geneva in
September. Cao was arrested in October and has suffered from serious health problems after
authorities refused to provide her proper medical care. Chen was detained for a short time and later
had to go into hiding.
15. JOURNALISTS ENSNARED IN MOVE TO
CONTROL PRESS
As part of an overall move to stifle free speech,
both professional and citizen journalists in China
were detained during the year. Authorities seized
two journalists from the state newspaper New
Express after they exposed official malfeasance. Liu
Hu (刘虎) was arrested for “libel” in September
after revealing corruption and abuses of power by
Party officials. In October, Chen Yongzhou (陈永州
) was detained on suspicion of “spreading
fabrications that damage the reputation of a
business” after he reported on financial fraud by a
large state-run firm. Chen’s detention led the
newspaper to boldly print a statement calling for the
men’s freedom (left).
16. JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION SETS
CRIMINAL STANDARDS FOR ONLINE
EXPRESSION
The Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme
People’s Procuratorate issued a “judicial
interpretation” in September, specifying
conditions under which online expression that
may “spread rumors” and involve “defamation”
would be grounds for criminal punishment. One
of the first victims of the interpretation was 16year-old Yang Hui (杨辉) (right), criminally
detained on suspicion of “creating a disturbance”
for expressing doubts over police claims about a
man’s death. Following a public uproar over his
case, Yang Hui was released after being held for
seven days.
17. SCOURGE OF “BLACK JAILS”
“Black jails,” illegal detention cells that
CHRD has closely documented for
years, appear to be proliferating across
the country as the use of the Re-education
through Labor system is being phased
out. In a case related to these illegal
facilities, Shanghai activists Wang
Kouma (王扣玛) and Wei Qin (魏勤)
were both given prison sentences in
September 2013. They were initially
detained the previous
September, allegedly for organizing a
memorial service for Wang’s mother, a
petitioner who died under mysterious
circumstances in a “black jail” in 2008.
18. SEVERE REPRESSION OF TIBETANS
Authorities in 2013 maintained and even
stepped up restrictions against ethnic
Tibetans, issuing lengthy prison sentences that
punished both free expression and activities
tied to self-immolation protests. In August, a
court in Sichuan issued the first known death
sentence for that form of protest to a Tibetan
man whose wife self-immolated.
Also, authorities in the Tibet Autonomous
Region executed a “mass line” campaign
ordered by the central government that aimed
to elevate loyalty to the CCP, patriotic
education, and mass surveillance. Such
policies led to an especially severe backlash
in the county of Diru (Biru), where security
forces were frequently dispatched to
“maintain stability” (left).
Editor's Notes
Cover Photo – collage Other title options:HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN CHINA: 2013 YEAR IN REVIEWREVIEW OF SITUATION OF CHINESE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN 2013REVIEW OF SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN CHINA IN 2013
Aprilhttp://www.chrdnet.com/2013/04/chrb-detainee-diary-reveals-horrendous-abuses-in-womens-labor-camp-44-10-2013/An article by the Chinese magazine Lens published in April 2013 based on a diary that was smuggled out detained the horrors of life inside the camp. It was followed quickly by a documentary by Du Bin called “Above the Ghost’s Head: Women of Masanjia Labor Camp” that interviewed women who were held in the camp. By end of year, RTL abolished
March http://www.chrdnet.com/2013/03/chrb-tibetans-imprisoned-for-splittism-poet-censored-for-urging-huangpu-river-memorial-316-20-2013/http://www.chrdnet.com/2013/09/chrb-police-detain-online-whistleblowers-as-judicial-interpretation-takes-effect-920-25-2013/http://www.chrdnet.com/2013/10/chrb-missing-activist-cao-shunli-reportedly-detained-on-order-of-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-926-102-2013/
December 2013 (or April?)http://www.chrdnet.com/2013/12/chrb-violence-against-lawyers-representing-christians-in-henan-many-activists-indicted-1212-1218-2013/
August – Septhttp://www.chrdnet.com/2013/10/china-must-stop-excluding-civil-society-from-un-human-rights-review/
October 2013http://www.chrdnet.com/2013/10/chrb-cao-shunlis-detention-confirmed-crackdown-expands-as-china-touts-achievements-at-un-review-1017-23-2013/
I moved this slide to later on since the report from Feb was just that she had been held incommunicado for many months and they still hadn’t heard from her. FEB 2013http://www.chrdnet.com/2013/02/chrb-self-immolation-of-tibetans-and-in-jiangxi-province-shanghai-activist-held-incommunicado-for-5-months-and-more-february-16-21-2013/http://www.chrdnet.com/2013/12/prisoner-of-conscience-wang-kouma/http://www.chrdnet.com/2013/12/prisoner-of-conscience-wei-qin/