The HRIC Daily Brief is a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in China, drawn from Chinese- and English-language news and online media sources that we monitor daily. In addition to headlines and source links, HRIC also provides English translation of Chinese headlines.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

“Vulnerable” women activists struggle to rebuild lives after detention
Radio Free Asia, April 27, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/rebuild-04272015131002.html

Related:
Chinese officers harshly interrogated women’s rights activist, husband says
The New York Times, April 27, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/world/asia/wu-rongrong-interrogation-china.html

Supporting women's rights in China
声援中国女权人士
Human Rights in China, April 24, 2015
EN: http://bit.ly/1Hd5v5D
CH: http://bit.ly/1DTr8Wy

Most recent page update:
Wu Rongrong recounts police threats during interrogation in detention: “before they started taking notes and video recording, they would howl at me: ‘we’ll tie you up, throw you in a cell with men, and let them gang rape you; also, your son is only four, there’ll be trouble ahead with school and work.’
武嵘嵘讲述被拘留审讯期间警察对她的威胁:“他们给我做笔录和同步录音录像开始之前,会给我很大的威胁,比如他们向我吼‘把你捆绑后扔到男号子里去,让他们轮奸你’,还有比如‘你儿子才四岁吧,以后上学和工作都会麻烦了!’……”

Why China arrested, then released, five feminists
The Economist, April 27, 2015
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/04/economist-explains-25