Ni began practicing law in 1986. She worked on a variety of rights-related cases, including a number relating to religious freedom. From 2001 onwards she specialized in housing rights. In 2002, she was beaten and tortured for more than 50 hours while in police detention. As a result, she has been left permanently disabled and is unable to walk without crutches.
Imprisoned Chinese housing rights activist Ni Yulan has been denied medical parole despite suffering from a number of serious health problems including an untreated thyroid tumor, her daughter has said. Ni, who is a Christian, is serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence for “causing a disturbance”.
Ni began practicing law in 1986. She worked on a variety of rights-related cases, including a number relating to religious freedom. From 2001 onwards she specialized in housing rights. In 2002, she was beaten and tortured for more than 50 hours while in police detention. As a result, she has been left permanently disabled and is unable to walk without crutches.
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US State Department Acknowledges China's Sex-Trade Caused by Their One-Child Policy -- Says Nothing6/24/2013 The US State Department yesterday released its yearly, "Trafficking in Persons Report." China received an automatic downgrade to the lowest ranking, Tier 3, for being a destination country for sex-trafficking. The State Department acknowledged the one-child policy as the "key source of demand" for sex-trafficking and forced prostitution within the country, but remained silent regarding the abolition of the harmful policy in its list of policy recommendations for China. The one-child policy came into effect in 1979 in an attempt to stabilize the country's population. Now, a generation later, the policy has caused sex-selective abortion and infanticide within the country on a gargantuan scale. Due to the policy, there are currently 37,000,000 more males than females in China -- that's about the entire population of California. Nearly a dozen Beijing law firms and more than 10 lawyers known for taking on human rights and rights defense cases have been unable to get their licenses renewed by the Beijing Justice Bureau in what appears to be a targeted move by the government to neutralize the growing trend of citizens using the law to defend their rights, according to ChinaAid sources. The annual license renewal period runs from April 1 to May 31, and by early May this year, 99% of Beijing's more than 1,000 law firms had passed their annual review by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice and received their new fraud-proof licenses from the Beijing Justice Bureau. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) condemns Laos’ deportation of nine North Korean refugees to China from where they were forcibly repatriated to North Korea. CSW fears the refugees, whose number includes at least one child, could face detention, torture and even execution as “illegal defectors”. The nine North Koreans, all aged 15 to 23, arrived in Laos around 10 May and were on their way to South Korea when they were caught by the Lao authorities. According to reports, the South Korean embassy in Vientiane requested that the refugees be transferred into their custody. However, on 27 May the embassy received the news that the group had been deported to China. On 29 May, a senior South Korean foreign ministry official said they judged that the refugees were repatriated to North Korea on 28 May. A well-known U.S. church leader, Dennis Balcombe (photo), was being held by police under house arrest following a Saturday raid on a house church revival meeting and his current whereabouts are unknown, ChinaAid has learned. Also in Henan province, seven house church leaders in Pingdingshan have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 7-1/2 years in prison on cult charges. In Nanyang, the raid by police, Domestic Security Protection agents and officials from the Religious Affairs Bureau occurred on Saturday morning, just hours after the start of what had been planned as a three-day revival meeting, with attendees from the city of Wenzhou and the provinces of Hubei and Henan, as well as house church believers from some other places. February 27, 2013 began like any other school day for ten-year-old Zhang Anni. Little did she know that this day she would be ordered to the principal's office, whisked away by four unidentified men, and detained without food or water, and without knowing where her father was, for 20 hours. Anni's crime? Her father, activist Zhang Lin, had exposed government corruption. I had the rare privilege of speaking directly with Anni and her father on a national internet radio program broadcast throughout China Saturday evening. Their story filled me with indignation. Anni has still not been allowed to return to school. No legitimate government would detain, starve and deny education to a ten-year-old. A mother of two died after a forced sterilization, which took place against a doctor's orders, Women's Rights in China reports. On March 19, a doctor at Tongshan County warned that sterilizing Shen Hongxia would be life-threatening. Nevertheless, local Family Planning Officers forcibly sterilized her, in order to avoid an "illegal pregnancy." Shen Hongxia, 42, died, leaving behind her husband and two children, one of whom is two years old. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has learned that the Full Gospel Church was forcibly closed in Havana Province at the end of February, leaving more than 200 people without a place of worship. A week before the church closure, the pastor of the church, Jesus Hernandez, was attacked by an armed mob as he was sleeping in his home. State security agents shut down and sealed the doors of the Full Gospel Church in the Lotería neighbourhood in the Municipality of Cotorro in the last days of February, confiscating all of church’s belongings, including chairs and musical instruments. Recently, the persecution of churches in Heilongjiang and Shandong has again come with a force, breaking up the brief quiet after the Chinese New Year. In this persecution, Christian gatherings were raided, attendees harassed, a pastor was beaten, and missionaries were detained.
Presbyterian Federation of Beijing has made an urgent appeal for prayers for the persecuted church in Heilongjiang and for assistance in hiring lawyers to intervene according to law. Prominent Christian Lawyer Li Fangping has agreed to represent the church in this case. On Saturday, February 16th, Steven Mosher will be exposing the reality and dangers of sex-selective abortion as part of a Symposium at Regent University Law School, in Virginia Beach, VA. Mosher, who is the President of the Population Research Institute, is an internationally recognized authority on demographics and population issues. Mosher first encountered Sex-Selective Abortion in China, where it has reached epidemic proportions as a result of pressures generated by the one-child policy. Up to 100 million girls are missing from the populations of China, India, Korea and Vietnam because of this practice. Mosher will present recent statistical and anecdotal evidence that this practice has reached America's shores. |
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