241. Earthquake safety versus human rights: China invokes "redevelopment measures" to destroy Uighurs' cultural identity.   …The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has accused the government of China of purposefully moving to destroy unique ethnic cultural treasures on the pretext of earthquake-proofing measures. Since February 2009 China…  

242. New human rights report "Writers in China: Enemies of the State", documents persecution of authors   … has published a new human rights report documenting the persecution of 79 writers and bloggers in China. There are currently 54 writers being held in secret prisons, work camps or in conventional prisons.  

243. Persecution of dissidents in China sharply rising; Westerwelle should push for release of imprisoned regime critics   … regime critics and for an end to the persecution of dissidents during his upcoming trip to China (31 Mar. to 2 Apr. 2011).  

244. Independent investigation of politically motivated violence in Uighur region of China demanded   … independent and comprehensive investigation of the politically motivated violence in northwestern China that has claimed at least 33 lives in the past 10 days.  

245. China: More than 80 civil rights activists detained to prevent public commemoration   … on Tiananmen Square in order to prevent any public commemoration of the massacre on June 4, 1989. "China's leadership won't stop at anything to enforce a dead calm peace on Tiananmen Square: kidnappings,…  

246. China's anti-terror measures are controversial – the violent deaths of 16 people appear in a new light   …Following the violent deaths of 16 people in the Uyghur region of north-western China last Sunday, their identities and the circumstances of their deaths are still disputed. On Thursday, the Society for Threatened…  

247. China ignores a request of the German Federal Government and the EU to clarify the violent deaths of 24 people in Xinjiang   …As long as the People's Republic of China refuses to disclose and investigate the reasons behind the violence in the unsettled region of Xinjiang, China's struggle against terrorism will lack credibility. This critical…  

248. Serious allegations against China: Systematical breaches of the Convention against Torture – at least 114 Tibetans died in custody since March 2008   … died in police custody, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) accused the People's Republic of China of violating the Convention against Torture systematically. Our human rights organization knows the…  

249. China: Wen Jiabao's dream of harmony in the People's Republic remains a pipe dream   … Minister Wen Jiabao is to ignore the catastrophic human rights situation in the People's Republic of China," criticized the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) on Monday in Göttingen. Some 500 mass protests…  

250. More than 10,000 members of minorities in Burma on the run again – China's growing energy appetite fuels war in Burma   On the occasion of World Refugee Day (June 20) the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) draws attention to a refugee drama in eastern Burma that is being largely ignored. In the current week, more