Civil Rights Abuse

Our Mission

We are committed to sowing the seeds of truth, love, justice, freedom, and democracy in China, through the following means:
*promoting principles of non-violent struggle;

*raising awareness among Chinese citizens of their legal rights;

*advancing the Chinese Citizen Power Movement (Gong-min-li-liang);

*encouraging Chinese citizens to evaluate their government, to affirm its positive efforts on their behalf, and to critique it when necessary; and

*providing more overseas assistance, with the aim of influencing the policies of the government.

All these efforts are undertaken in order to accomplish a peaceful transition to a democratic China through constitutional reform.

List of Political and Religous Prisoners

1. Dr. Wang Bing-zhang, lifelong democracy activist. Mr. Wang was allegedly kidnapped in Vietnam by Chinese State Security police in 2002. He was taken to China where he was sentenced to life in prison after a closed door trial. Mr. Wang is 62 years old and in poor health. Click here

2. Mr. Chen Guang-cheng, a blind and self-taught human rights lawyer helping women victims of China's strict one birth policy. August 24, 2006, after a two-hour trial, Chen was charged was sentenced to over 4 years in prison. Click here

3. Mr. Qin Yong-min, one of the first leaders in the pro-democracy movement in China. The first arrest of him was in 1981 for 7 years prison. The last arrest was On December 22, 1998, and the Wuhan City Court sentenced him to twelve years in prison. Click here

4. Mr. Zhang Zhongxin, a pastor of a local house church in Jiangxiang County, Shandong Province. June 6th of 2008, pastor Zhang Zhongxin was arrested and then sentenced for two years reeducation through labor in July 4th. Click here

Entries Tagged as 'Civil Rights Abuse'

Congressmen Send Letter to Chinese Ambassador Concerning Crackdown

October 7th, 2008 · No Comments

China Aid Association October 3, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Congressional letter spearheaded by leadership of the 62-member U.S.-China Working Group (USCWG) was sent to China’s Ambassador to the U.S., Zhou Wenzhong, voicing concerns over reports of a post-Olympic crackdown by the Chinese government planned for October.
ChinaAid released a report in August regarding the crackdown after [...]

Surveillance of Skype messages found in China

October 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

By John Markoff
International Herald Tribune
Thursday, October 2, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO: A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.
The system tracks text messages sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese [...]

High School Students in He Nan Province Besieged County Government for the Sale of Their School’s Playground

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Initiatives for China translated from Chinese version BBC News of Sept 6th 2008.
The news said that the populace of He Nan province in the city of Zhou Kou has besieged the county government. Over a thousand high school students were involved in quarrels with policemen, and about 20 students were injured. Click here to read [...]

China Admits Building Flaws in Quake

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments

New York Times 09-04-2008
BEIJING — A Chinese government committee said Thursday that a rush to build schools during the country’s recent economic boom might have led to shoddy construction that resulted in the deaths of thousands of students during a devastating earthquake in May.

Relatives and friends of those killed in the collapse of a [...]

behind the Beijing Olympics 2008

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments

08-20-2008
Initiatives for China
Contact: Jim Geheran
Tel: 202-290-1423
initiatives4china@gmail.com
www.initiativesforchina.org
One World One Nightmare
Director: SHENG Xue
Editor: SHENG Xue Liu Xuan
Producer: DONG Xin
Translator: Michael Craig ZHANG Zhenggang ZOU Haixia QIAO Ansi
Part I

China arrests quake critic on secrets charge

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

(Adds confirmation and comment from wife of dissident arrested)
Saturday, July 19, 2008 6:06am
By Chris Buckley
Reuters
BEIJING, July 19 (Reuters) - Chinese police arrested a human rights campaigner in the country’s southwest for “possession of state secrets” after he offered help to parents of children killed in the region’s massive earthquake, his family said.

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Introduction to the Founder

Founder and President of Initiatives for China, Dr. Yang Jianli was born in Shandong Province in northern China. A graduate of Beijing Normal University, Dr. Yang holds a PhD. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in Political Economy from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. In 1989, at the age of 26, his fellow graduate students at Berkeley selected him to go to Beijing in support of their counterparts in China who were demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square. He arrived in Tiananmen Square in time to witness the massacre of thousands of peaceful demonstrators by the guns and tanks of the Chinese government. This event fundamentally changed young Jianli's future. He narrowly escaped capture and returned to the United States where he committed himself to studying democracy. Read more...

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