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China and Tibet China’s Forbidden Zones Shutting the Media out of Tibet and Other “Sensitive” Stories
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-357-9 July 7, 2008 Download PDF, 472 KB, 71 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book “Walking on Thin Ice” Control, Intimidation and Harassment of Lawyers in China
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-311-0 April 29, 2008 Download PDF, 304 KB, 146 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Denied Status, Denied Education Children of North Korean Women in China
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-304-8 April 12, 2008 Also available in 
Download PDF, 269 KB, 24 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book “One Year of My Blood” Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in Beijing
HRW Index No.: C2003 March 12, 2008 Download PDF, 304 KB, 59 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book “You Will Be Harassed and Detained” Media Freedoms Under Assault in China Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
HRW Index No.: C1912 August 7, 2007 Download PDF, 183 KB, 40 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book “No One Has the Liberty to Refuse” Tibetan Herders Forcibly Relocated in Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region This 79-page report documents how the government’s policy of forced resettlement has violated the economic and social rights of Tibetan herders. It draws on interviews conducted between July 2004 and December 2006 with some 150 Tibetans from the areas directly affected. HRW Index No.: C1908 June 11, 2007 Download PDF, 489 KB, 78 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book “A Great Danger for Lawyers” New Regulatory Curbs on Lawyers Representing Protesters This 71-page report details the “Guiding Opinions on Lawyers Handling Mass Cases,” which were introduced in March 2006, and discusses subsequently adopted local variants. The report explains how the Guiding Opinions let local authorities interfere in cases involving 10 or more plaintiffs, making it more difficult for the cases to get a fair hearing in court. Human Rights Watch said that the new regulations also discourage lawyers from talking to domestic or international media, require that they get their firms’ permission to take on such cases, and hold lawyers liable if disputes “intensify.” HRW Index No.: C1815 December 12, 2006 Download PDF, 638 KB, 71 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Race to the Bottom Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship China’s system of Internet censorship and surveillance, popularly known as the “Great Firewall,” is the most advanced in the world. In this 149-page report, Human Rights Watch documents how extensive corporate and private sector cooperation – including by some of the world’s major Internet companies – enables this system of censorship. Research was performed through interviews and extensive testing of search engines in China, and includes 18 screen shots to illustrate examples of censorship. The report vividly illustrates how various companies, including Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, and Skype block terms they believe the Chinese government will want them to censor. HRW Index No.: C1808 August 10, 2006 Download PDF, 5000 KB, 147 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book “We Could Disappear At Any Time” Retaliation and Abuses Against Chinese Petitioners This 89-page report is the first in-depth look at the treatment of Chinese citizens who travel to Beijing to demand approval of or answers to their complaints of mistreatment by officials. Research was carried out in China. Petitioners, many of them rural people with minimal education or resources, often come to Beijing fleeing local violence and seeking a venue of last resort. Yet while they wait for their petitions to be addressed in Beijing, many are ambushed by groups of plainclothes security officers on the street, beaten, and kidnapped. Many are taken back to their home provinces, imprisoned, and even tortured. A few petitioners who spoke to Human Rights Watch had lost the use of limbs due to torture in detention. The perpetrators of these abuses are usually government employees or agents who act with impunity. HRW Index No.: C1711 December 8, 2005 Download PDF, 964 KB, 89 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Restrictions on AIDS Activists in China This 57-page report based on on-the-ground interviews with Chinese AIDS activists, gay rights activists, activists working with drug users, and website managers shows that while senior officials have said they want to encourage China's emerging civil society, many AIDS activists face state harassment and bureaucratic restrictions. First-hand accounts provided to Human Rights Watch reveal that activists conducting AIDS information workshops or working with those at high risk of HIV have been harassed or detained, and that pornography laws are used to censor websites providing AIDS information to gay men and lesbians under pornography laws. HRW Index No.: C1705 June 15, 2005 Download PDF, 432 KB, 59 pgs Purchase online Devastating Blows Religious Repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang This 114-page report is based on previously undisclosed Communist Party and government documents, as well as local regulations, official newspaper accounts, and interviews conducted in Xinjiang. It unveils for the first time the complex architecture of law, regulation, and policy in Xinjiang that denies Uighurs religious freedom, and by extension freedom of association, assembly, and expression. Chinese policy and law enforcement stifle religious activity and thought even in school and at home. HRW Index No.: C1702 April 12, 2005 Also available in
Download PDF, 768 KB, 114 pgs Purchase online Demolished Forced Evictions and the Tenants' Rights Movement in China Chinese local authorities and developers are forcibly evicting hundreds of thousands of homeowners and tenants who have little legal recourse. China's rapid urban development, fueled in Beijing by preparations for the 2008 Olympics, is leading to the eviction of homeowners and tenants in violation of Chinese law and international standards on the right to housing. This 45-page report details the problems many Chinese citizens face. HRW Index No.: C1604 March 25, 2004 Download PDF, 416 KB, 45 pgs Purchase online Trials of a Tibetan Monk The Case of Tenzin Delek This 108-page report by Human Rights Watch says that the persecution of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a highly-respected Tibetan lama facing a death sentence on unproven allegations of involvement in a bombing, highlights the ongoing strictures placed on Tibetans in China. In recent years, the Chinese government has consolidated secular control at the expense of monastic influence. Human Rights Watch says that the international community should raise Tenzin Delek’s case at every opportunity in meetings with Chinese officials and press the Chinese government to bring to account those officials who have persecuted this man and his community. HRW Index No.: C1601 February 9, 2004 Download PDF, 1500 KB, 108 pgs Purchase online Locked Doors The Human Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China Widespread discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS is fueling the spread of the epidemic in China. This 94-page report is based on more than 30 interviews with people with HIV/AIDS, police officers, drug users, and AIDS outreach workers in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Yunnan province. Many people living with HIV/AIDS have no access to health care because hospitals refuse to treat them. Human Rights Watch found that at one hospital, the door to the AIDS clinic was actually padlocked. National laws discriminate against people with HIV/AIDS, and some local laws ban them from using swimming pools or working in food service. The police send drug users to detoxification centers, where they are forced to labor without pay to make trinkets for tourists. Instead of receiving help for their problem, they are driven underground, making it harder for the government to combat the AIDS virus. HRW Index No.: C1507 September 3, 2003 Download PDF Purchase online Dangerous Minds Political Psychiatry in China Today and its Origins in the Mao Era The Chinese government should immediately release anyone held in institutions for the mentally ill based on a politically motivated diagnosis, Human Rights Watch and the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry said in this report. The government should also end the longstanding practice of using psychiatric incarceration for political ends. In the 298-page report, "Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and its Origins in the Mao Era," Human Rights Watch and the Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry, a Netherlands-based international foundation, compare the treatment of dissidents in mental asylums to similar abuses in the former Soviet Union. The sentencing of political dissidents to special psychiatric hospitals on the basis of false diagnoses led to the forced withdrawal of the Soviet Union from the WPA in 1983 and it was not readmitted until 1989, after the Gorbachev reforms had brought an end to systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. HRW Index No.: 2785 August 13, 2002 Download PDF Purchase online Paying the Price: Worker Unrest in Northeast China The Chinese government's refusal to allow independent trade unions is fueling worker protests, Human Rights Watch said in this new report.The 50-page report, "Paying the Price: Worker Unrest in Northeast China," analyzes in detail the demonstrations that took place from March through May 2002 in three cities in northeastern China, and the government response to them. The unprecedented demonstrations lasted longer than any since the 1989 pro-democracy movement. In Liaoyang, metal workers laid off from former state-owned enterprises took to the streets intermittently over a ten-week period. In Daqing, laid-off oil workers encountered a massive show of force and security forces detained at least sixty workers for periods ranging between twenty-four hours and two weeks. In Fushun, thousands of laid-off miners and workers from nearby factories blocked roads and rail lines until they were given limited payouts. Four key protest leaders in Liaoyang city were indicted on March 30, 2002 after leading a four-year effort to bring workers' complaints to the attention of local authorities. They may be put on trial at any time. Yao Fuxin, Pang Qingxiang, Xiao Yunliang and Wang Zhaoming are charged with "illegal assembly, marches and protests" and could face five-year prison terms. The four men have been held for almost five months with little, if any, access to family and with no legal representation. Across China, state-owned enterprises that once promised workers lifetime employment and a secure retirement have downsized or closed. HRW Index No.: C1406 August 2, 2002 Download PDF Purchase online Dangerous Meditation China's Campaign Against Falungong The Chinese government is using new laws and new interpretations of old laws to crack down on the Falungong, Human Rights Watch says in this report. today. Falungong members have been classified with Tibetan and Uighur 'splittists' and unauthorized religious groups as a major threat to the Communist Party, Human Rights Watch said. This 117-page report, Dangerous Meditation: China's Campaign Against Falungong, analyzes why and how the Chinese government embarked on a plan to eradicate the group it terms an "evil cult." In recent documents, the Chinese government has suggested that Falungong is a terrorist organization. The new report traces the evolution of the Chinese government's crackdown, starting with the July 1999 ban on the hierarchically-organized meditation group, which now boasts millions of members worldwide. From the initial ban, the government moved on to prohibit practicing the group's exercises in public, and to confiscate and destroy hundreds of thousands of copies of its publications. ISBN: 1-56432-270-X, 117pp, 10.00 HRW Index No.: (270X) February 7, 2002 Purchase online China: Child Soldier Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers There are indications of under-18s in government armed forces as voluntary recruits under 18 are accepted. Minors also appear to have been involved with armed Uyghur nationalist groups. June 12, 2001 "Nipped in the Bud": Suppression of the China Democracy Party In this thirty-five page report released today, Human Rights Watch called on China's President Jiang Zemin to release more than thirty people imprisoned for their role in the China Democracy Party and all others who have been detained in China for peaceful political activities. The Chinese President will be in the U.S. on September 7 to meet world leaders at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. HRW Index No.: C1205 September 1, 2000 Purchase online People's Republic of China: Land Mine Montior 2000 Key Developments since March 1999: China completed clearance of its border with Vietnam in September 1999. For the first time, China announced that it had destroyed 1.7 million older antipersonnel mines in recent years. China is apparently converting its non-detectable antipersonnel mines by adding metal. Though China again abstained on the pro-Mine Ban Treaty UNGA resolution in December 1999, it attended the First Meeting of States Parties in Maputo in May 1999. August 1, 2000 |
  
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