Victims of Persecution in China, Speak Out on Day Against Torture

A little more than a year after Liu Xianbin, was released following a decade in prison, Liu has been detained again by Chinese authorities, this time for "inciting subversion of state power."

On the 28 June, Police in Suining City, Sichuan Province detained
Liu after raiding his home and the next day, Police summoned, harassed and threatened his wife and 13 year old daughter.

Rest here Via Chinese Human Rights Defenders

Dragon Boat Festival 2010

Colorful Dragon Boats during the 8th Yingbin rowing contest in Hainan Province on Wednesday. Every year the Duanwu Festival is celebrated throughout China with activities which include boat races and eating rice dumplings.


Chinese families gathering by the lake to put candlelit lotus in the water to wish for Happiness during Duanwu Festival otherwise known as Dragon Boat Festival.

On the 09 June, 2008 I wrote more here about the Duan Wu Jie Festival

More here Duan Wu Jie--Dragon Boat & Dumpling Festival

Duan Wu Jie (Rice Dumpling Festival) and Qu Yuan

Yippee! Its Zongzi Festival (Pictures) Via Sina.com

Dragon Boat Racing to Celebrate Festival (Pictures) Via Sina.com

China Human Rights Abuse, Wang Chunyan, Falun Gong Practitioner Denied Medical Parole

China Human Rights Defenders

Beijing Police harass Ni Yulan and her husband, briefly detaining them in a Black Jail to prevent them from meeting with visiting European Diplomats. Ni and her husband are now homeless as Chinese authorities demolished their home while she was in prison.

Worker Strikes Sweeping Across China Via The Epoch Times

Wang Chunyan, was a successful businesswoman from Dalian, Liaoning Province, in 1999 she began practicing Falun Gong, traditional Chinese spiritual discipline with Buddhist and Taoist principles. That same year on 22 July, the Chinese Communist Party launched a brutal attack on Falun Gong Practitioners to renounce their religious beliefs.

Currently incarcerated at Liaoning Women's Prision, Ms. Wang has developed severe hypertension and heart disease. Chinese authorities have prevented her family from applying for medical parole.

More here from Falun Dafa

Watch video---Wang Chunyan Falun Gong Practitioner Denied Medical Parole Via New Tang Dynasty

Chinese Authorities Arrest 13 Democracy Activists Ahead Of Hong Kong's Tiananmen Square Remembrance Vigil

Chinese authorities deport the creator of a statue that sparked the arrest of 13 Democracy Activists, ahead of Hong Kong's annual Tiananmen Square Remembrance Vigil.

More here from Taiwan News Online

China Human Rights: Feng Zhenghu Unlawfully Detained Attempting To Visit Shanghai Expo

Shanghai Expo Intensifies Chinese Regime's Crackdown On Falun Gong

Suffering Behind Shanghai World Expo

International Day of Action for Chinese Human Rights Activist Hu Jia

Amnesty Intl Urgent Action For Falun Gong Practitioner Jiang Feng Abducted In Shanghai

Shanghai 2010 Expo

Chinese Marxist Ma Ying-jeou, Jeopardizing Taiwan's Future

One Taiwan--One China, Protecting Democracy Activist opposes Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between Taiwan and China

Pro-Democracy Supporters in Taiwan, protesting against Chinese Marxists Ma Ying-jeou and PRC Hu Jintao

Taiwan DPP Supporters protesting ECFA Trade pact between Taiwan and Marxist PRC

Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Leader and Former Premier Frank Hsieh, at anti-ECFA demonstration in Taipei

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside of Taiwan's Parliament on Thursday, led by DPP, calling for a referendum on the free trade agreement between Taiwan and China, which some argue would mostly benefit China

More here from New Tang Dynasty Television

Related: Ma Ying-jeou radicalism risks Taiwan's Free Choice
Via Taiwan News

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehitinen, R-FL discusses ECFA Via YouTube

Taiwanese Demand Referendum on ECFA Via Taiwan Matters

Senior Obama Administration Adviser Anita Dunn, Praises Mao for having a major influence on her life Via Front Page Magazine

In 2008 while campaigning for President, Comrade Barack Obama reiterated his support for Marxism in Taiwan Via China Daily

Behind Closed Doors, U.S. & China Begin Dubious Human Rights Dialogue Via Epoch Times

China Stop Persecution of Human Rights Activists

Chinese Human Rights Activist Yang Jinali, speaks during a panel discussion on "Rising Powers & International Rights Compliance" in Geneva, Switzerland

On the 09 February, Chinese Human Rights Activist and Writer
Tan Zuoren was sentenced to 5 years in prison on the charge of "inciting subversion of state power" his crime, Tan exposed corruption in Sichuan Province School Construction and reported the truth.

Following the catastrophic Sichuan Earthquake on the 12 May, 2008 Beijing admitted that shoddy construction of the building that collapsed were structurally unsound but then reversed themselves defending construction of collapsed buildings.

Sichuan Earthquake Parents Still Protesting Via Radio Free Asia

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China Human Rights Briefing Weekly 27 April-03 May Amnesty Intl

China Suspends Two Human Rights Attys For Life

China suspended Human Rights Attorneys Liu Wei and Tang Jitian,
for their representation of religious and political dissidents.

Tang Jitian said Chinese authorities "...have completely gone against the principles of the law and out of their need to take revenge against the profession, they have decided to punish us this way."

The lawyers say that they will appeal and use all legal means to expose the authorities illegal actions.

More here from New Tang Dynasty Television

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Disbarred Attys File Criminal Complaint with the Beijing
Xicheng District Procuratorate

Is Talking to Beijing about Human Rights a Waste of Time?

Sichuan Province Remembers Loved Ones

Remembering the victims of the catastrophic Sichuan Earthquake that struck at 2:28 pm two years ago today. May God have mercy.

Sichuan Province, Beichuan earthquake survivors walk along a rebuilt road today, mourning their relatives that were lost two years ago today. Family members may now register their missing loved one as deceased.

17,921 still missing two years following catastrophic earthquake.

Sichuan Earthquake survivors mourning today, burning Joss sticks as they remember their loved ones that perished two years ago in Beichuan County

Combined photos show a home in Sichuan Province First photo taken on 12 February, 2009 the second photo taken on 30 April, 2010 shows 66 year old He Zhaoyun and his Grandson Liu Mingchu in front of the new home. Nearly 1.5 Million Homes went up following the devastating 8.0 earthquake two years ago today.

A Reporter is taking a photos of a newly built village in Cuiyuehu Township, Dujiandyan City, Sichuan Province on Monday.


New homes in the final stage of construction are pictured in Hongkou Township, Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province two years after the catastrophic 8.0 earthquake.

Farmers left devastated by the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008 will be moving into their new homes by 30 September this year.

The homes in Sichuan's Dujiangyan City, 11 KM away from the epicenter of the earthquake (two years ago today) were built by the farmers with the same style and infrastructure facilities with the help of the government.

The surrounding of these homes could easily match some of the luxury villas in the suburban areas.

The money for building the houses came from the governments housing compensation, the compensation that farmers received from transferring their original home sites and their own savings.

More here in Chinese

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More than 2,000 babies came into world in Sichuan Quake Hit Areas

Shuimo Town in Pictures Two Years After Earthquake

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Children Tied To Leashes While Parents Work

Children tied to a wall for up to 10 hours a day while their parents work in a brick factory in Zhejiang Province.

So sad, child leashed and uncared for while her parents go off to work. If you can't care adequately for a Chinese child, contact me
and I will find a good home for them.

Barefoot and forced to sit on a cold dirt floor while his Mother works, children are traumatized for life being treated like an animal.

Children on leashes tied to steel bars. What sort of decent parent could do this to a child?

Caring Mother looking in on her child imprisoned while she works? What sort of Mother could do this?

Little boy tied to a wall with a leash while ignored by his parents.
How can any good Mother know her son cries out and ignore him?

China, Haining, in the town of Dinqiao, some 125 km from Shanghai

More here Via Asia One News

China, Shanxi Province--Police Rescue Slaves from Brick Factory

H/T: PP.QQ.Com

Qinghai Earthquake Survivors Blessed By Others

A student writes his own personal wish on a long roll in the earthquake ravaged Qinghai Province.

A student draws the plans that he would like for new school in
Qinghai Province.

Students reading the words of Blessings from a Beijing Middle School in Yushu County, Qinghai Province----Xinhua News Photos

Via Yosihiko

"Why did the government put censorship on critical messages??? Government says to Chinese Media, only report good news and hero stories...Why do they have to censor critical voices unless they have something to hide. Until there is a free media in China we have to also read Hong Kong news and overseas news to understand the truth of what happened."

Related Posts: Yao Ming raising money for Qinghai Survivors

Small Change, Big Changes Via China Daily

China, Taixing Town Center Kindergarten Attack

Via Tiexue in Chinese

Crowds gather near the Taixing Town Center Kindergarten, waiting
for updates from authorities.

Crowds gathered near the Taixing Town Center Kindergarten, authorities had closed area streets.

Blood splatter left following the Taixing Town Center Kindergarten attack on Thursday

Blood stains left at the scene of the Kindergarten attack in China, Jiangsu Province on Thursday

On Thursday, a knife wielding man injured 31 people at the Kindergarten, five of them seriously and two critically.

More here from Peoples Daily Online

Terror at China, Leicheng First Primary School

China, Leizhou City--Leicheng Primary School student sleeping at a hospital in Guangdong Province after being attacked by a knife wielding man yesterday.

Leicheng First Primary School student, receiving medical treatment after being injured on Wednesday.

Chen Kangbing, a school teacher from Hongguan Primary School suffering from a mental illness and on medical leave since February 2006 broke into a primary school in Southern China on Wednesday, stabbing 16 students along with their teacher.

Leicheng First Primary School students suffered wounds to their heads, backs and arms remain in stable condition

More here from Shanghai Daily

Copycat Crime: Knife Wielding Man attacks 26 children, two teachers and a security guard at Zhongxin Kindergarten in the eastern City of Taixing, Jiangsu Province.

H/T: Xiao-Mei----Xiexie

China, Qinghai Earthquake Charity Fundraiser

Chinese Artists performing in Hong Kong on Monday for the survivors of the catastrophic 7.1 Qinghai Earthquake at 7:49 am on the 14 April

Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Andy Lau and others performing in Hong Kong on Monday during a charity program for the survivors of the devastating 7.1 Qinghai Earthquake

More than 300 celebrities participated in the "Artistes 414 Fundraising Campaign" helping to raise much needed money for the survivors of the Qinghai Earthquake.

More here from Channel News Asia

Video "Artistes 414 Fundraising Campaign" in Chinese

Jackie Chan in Hong Kong for Earthquake Relief Concert

China, Shanghai World Expo Park Rehearsal

Fireworks rehearsal over World Expo Park China, Shanghai more than 70 million tourists are expected to visit the city during the Expo


Fireworks explode over the World Expo Park during a fireworks rehearsal for the World Expo in Shanghai to open 01 May

Dozens of foreign leaders to attend opening ceremony of
Shanghai World Expo Via Xinhua News

Related: USA Pavilion---China, Shanghai

Expo 2010 Shanghai Via Peoples Daily Online