许志永

2013年9月13日 来源：华盛顿邮报

By Simon Denyer, Published: September 13

BEIJING — Last month, Chinese police invited Wang Gongquan in for a “cup of tea,” often a prelude here to detention. He had launched a public petition calling for the release of arrested dissident Xu Zhiyong, and the authorities were not amused. But Wang effectively told the police to forget it — he had no time for tea, he was traveling, and he had said everything he wanted to say. 阅读全文…

王功权

消息称，曾声援被捕法律学者许志永的中国知名投资人王功权被北京警方以扰乱秩序为由带走。

媒体人笑蜀对BBC中文网说，据王功权的家人对他称，北京市公安局20多名警员星期五（9月13日）上午到其家中搜查近两个小时，随后把王功权以及其电脑等物品带走。

笑蜀说，警方出示了传唤通知书，涉嫌罪名是扰乱公共场所秩序。目前王功权下落不明。 阅读全文…

来源：美联社 8月23日 作者：Gillian Wong
Featured in 彭博商务周刊, ABC News, 华盛顿邮报, Fox News 等

BEIJING (AP) — The formal arrest this week of one of China’s most well-known civil rights advocates underscores how unnerved the country’s new leaders are by any independent, vaguely organized political action — even if it is as mundane as gathering for a dinner party.

Beijing activist Xu Zhiyong, arrested Thursday, is one of the founders of a loose network of campaigners known as the New Citizens Movement, who, among other things, have called for people to get together on the last Saturday of each month for dinner to discuss China’s constitution and other legal issues. 阅读全文…

Drive to Strengthen One-Party Rule Unhindered by Upcoming UN Rights Council Election

AUGUST 30, 2013 来源：人权观察 Human Rights Watch

(New York) – The Chinese government has undertaken a nationwide crackdown on dissent in an apparent campaign against perceived challenges to one-party rule, Human Rights Watch said today. Since February 2013 the government has arbitrarily detained at least 55 activists, taken into custody critics and online opinion leaders, and increased controls on social media, online expression, and public activism, rolling back the hard-won space China’s civil society has gained in recent years. 阅读全文…

来源：Reuters

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union called on China on Wednesday to release one of the country’s most prominent rights activists, Xu Zhiyong, telling Beijing to respect international standards on freedom of expression.

Police arrested Xu, who has called for officials to disclose their wealth, last week, raising the stakes in the government’s crackdown on anti-graft campaigners. 阅读全文…

来源：华尔街日报中文版

北京警方本周正式逮捕了呼吁政府提高透明度的知名人士许志永，外界担心中国当局正在加大力度打击要求其放权的呼声。
全文请见：http://cn.wsj.com/gb/20130824/bch152508.asp

华泽

来源：New York Times By HUA ZE (华泽)
Published: August 18, 2013 23

XU ZHIYONG, a lawyer for the underprivileged, knew he risked his freedom by challenging the Chinese Communist Party to fulfill its vows to fight corruption and promote the rule of law.

His fight made him one of China’s best known human-rights advocates, and it has now landed him in prison. 阅读全文…

Source: New York Times 2013-08-09 By Jane Perlez and Chris Buckley

BEIJING — A prominent Chinese rights advocate who was detained last month has spoken out in a video shot from behind bars at a detention center in Beijing, urging citizens to stand up against the government and turn their rights into reality.

The unusual act of defiance by the advocate, Xu Zhiyong, was available for viewing on a number of Web sites Thursday, including YouTube and Voice of America, after being disseminated by his supporters. 阅读全文…

PPDCECC Xu Zhiyong

Source: ppdcecc.gov

美国国会中国委员会（Congressional – Executive Commission on China）政治犯数据库(Political Prisoner Database)

个人情况
CECC 纪录号：2005-00199
拘禁状态：被拘押
分类：civil/assoc/rol/spch
姓名：Xu Zhiyong
中文姓名：许志永 阅读全文…

来源：华尔街时报 Wall Street Journal 作者：James Areddy (July 31, 2013)

For All the Corruption-Campaign Fanfare, Efforts to Get More Insight Into Officials’ Assets Appear to Suffer a Backlash

Despite China’s campaign against corruption, President Xi Jinping’s administration is defending a fundamental entitlement of Chinese public service: concealed wealth. 阅读全文…