Xiao’s friend and fellow activist Liao Jianhao told RFA that his family were informed that he is under criminal detention when they went to inquire after him at the police station
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An estimated nine people were detained after state security police and officials from Xiamen’s religious affairs bureau raided a meeting of the unofficial Xingguang Church on Sunday morning, local time
Pu has repeatedly called for a last meeting with Huang, who suffers from kidney failure and coronary heart disease, among other things. But the authorities have refused to allow even a final phone call
Chen Jiaping, who has also used the name Chen Yong, was detained in early March on suspicion of “incitement to subvert state power,” according to multiple reports
Xu had also penned a New Year’s message to China’s citizens in 2020, calling on them to think about whether they want to carry on with an authoritarian government or movement towards democratic constitutionalism, an idea that President Xi has said has no place in his vision for China
Huang was present at a million-strong protest in Hong Kong on June 9 against plans to allow extradition to mainland China
Huang Xiaomin was handed the two year, six-month prison sentence by the Jinniu District People’s Court in Sichuan’s provincial capital, Chengdu, which found him guilty of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” a charge commonly used to target peaceful critics of the government
Chimengul Awut, an editor at the Kashgar Publishing House in the XUAR’s Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture, is one of 14 people who worked at the company to be detained at a political “re-education camp” since last year