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China: Human rights defender Mr Ilham Tohti placed under strict house arrest posted on: 2013/03/22

On 21 March 2013, Uyghur human rights defender Mr Ilham Tohti was placed under strict house arrest at his home in Beijing. On 22 March, the human rights defender was due to travel to Hong Kong to attend an academic conference.

China- Update: Human rights defender Ms He Peirong released from police custodyposted on: 2012/05/04

On 4 May 2012, Ms He Peirong was released from police custody in her home city of Nanjing. She had been detained for seven days following her role in assisting fellow HRD Mr Chen Guangcheng's escape.

China: Fear for safety of Mr Chen Guangcheng and his family;fellow HRD Ms He Peirong remains missing and Ms Zeng Jinyan under house arrestposted on: 2012/05/03

On 2 May 2012, Mr Chen Guangcheng left the US Embassy in Beijing where he had taken refuge for six days following his escape on 22 April 2012 from nineteen months of strict and unlawful house arrest in his home province of Shandong.

China: Human rights lawyer Mr Chen Guangcheng escapes house arrest; brother and fellow human rights defender, Ms He Peirong, reportedly detainedposted on: 2012/04/27

On 27 April 2012, it emerged that Chinese human rights defender and 'barefoot' lawyer Mr Chen Guangcheng had escaped the brutal house arrest which he and his family had been subjected to since his release from prison in September 2010.

China: BBC camera crew prevented from visiting human rights defender Chen Guangcheng under house arrestposted on: 2011/11/11

BBC camera crew prevented from visiting Chen Guangcheng' The three men acted swiftly and efficiently - they had a job to do.

China: Continued house arrest and isolation of Liu Xia, one year after her husband Liu Xiaobo received the 2010 Nobel Peace Prizeposted on: 2011/10/10

Ms Liu Xia, the wife of human rights defender and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mr Liu Xiaobo, continues to be held under house arrest and largely incommunicado in her home in Beijing, one year after the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to her husband.

China : Human rights defender Chen Guangcheng and his family facing severe food shortages as house arrest continuesposted on: 2011/08/08

Human rights defender Mr Chen Guangcheng, along with his wife Ms Yuan Weijing, his mother, and six-year old daughter, have now been under house arrest for almost a year, during which time they have been completely isolated from the outside world, and forced to endure severe food shortages as none of the family is being permitted to leave the property.

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Chen Guangcheng is a blind, self-taught human rights lawyer who served four years imprisonment as a result of his work on women's rights in Linyi City, Shangdong Province.

Since his release from prison on 9 September 2010, neither Chen Guangcheng nor his wife Yuan Weijing have been allowed to step outside their home or maintain any form of contact with the outside world.

Phone-jamming equipment has been installed which makes it impossible for the family to use the phone. A group of approximately 30 men surround the house and block off the entrances to the village in which the family lives.

Belarus: Suspended sentencing of human rights journalist Ms Iryna Khalip, released in courtroom after 5 months in detention and house arrestposted on: 2011/05/24

On 16 May 2011, the court of Zavodskoy district of Minsk found human rights journalist Ms Iryna Khalip guilty of violating part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (taking part or organising the actions that violate public order) and sentenced her to 2 years in a penal colony. The court decided to suspend the sentence for 2 years, and she was released in the courtroom. Iryna Khalip was arrested on 19 December 2010 after a protest rally in Minsk following the presidential elections. She is a Belarusian journalist and correspondent for the Russian newspaper 'Novaya Gazeta'. In 2009 Iryna Khalip won the International Women's Media Foundation “Courage in Journalism” Award. In 2005, she was nominated by Time Magazine as a “Hero of Europe”. She is the wife of opposition Presidential candidate Mr Andrey Sannikov.

China Liu Xia wife of Nobel Prize winner held hostage

The Guardian - 21 February 2011

Wife of jailed Chinese Nobel peace prize laureate 'is a hostage'

Supporters have been unable to reach Liu Xia since shortly after the announcement that her poet husband Liu Xiaobo had won award

The wife of the jailed Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo said she and her family are "hostages", according to a friend. The comment is thought to be her first contact with the outside world for four months.

Supporters have been unable to reach Liu Xia since shortly after October's announcement that her husband had won the award. It was initially thought she was under house arrest at the couple's home in Beijing, but it is now believed she may be being held at her parents' house.

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First published The Guardian Sunday 20 February 2011

The poet said she was miserable and added: "No one can help me," according to a transcript of the conversation. The Washington Post said it received the document from the friend, with whom she had communicated online, via an intermediary.

"I don't know how I managed to get online," Liu Xia wrote in the five-minute chat on Thursday night. "Don't go online.

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China Liu Xia wife of Nobel Prize winner held hostage

The Guardian - 21 February 2011

Wife of jailed Chinese Nobel peace prize laureate 'is a hostage'

Supporters have been unable to reach Liu Xia since shortly after the announcement that her poet husband Liu Xiaobo had won award

The wife of the jailed Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo said she and her family are "hostages", according to a friend. The comment is thought to be her first contact with the outside world for four months.

Supporters have been unable to reach Liu Xia since shortly after October's announcement that her husband had won the award. It was initially thought she was under house arrest at the couple's home in Beijing, but it is now believed she may be being held at her parents' house.

Read Rest of the Article

First published The Guardian Sunday 20 February 2011

The poet said she was miserable and added: "No one can help me," according to a transcript of the conversation. The Washington Post said it received the document from the friend, with whom she had communicated online, via an intermediary.

"I don't know how I managed to get online," Liu Xia wrote in the five-minute chat on Thursday night. "Don't go online.

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