Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Conceptualizing Human Rights
- Overture
- 1 How Do We Talk about Human Rights?
- 2 A Short History of Human Rights in the West
- 3 A Short History of Human Rights in China
- Part Two Justifications for Human Rights
- Part Three Applications of Human Rights
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
3 - A Short History of Human Rights in China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Conceptualizing Human Rights
- Overture
- 1 How Do We Talk about Human Rights?
- 2 A Short History of Human Rights in the West
- 3 A Short History of Human Rights in China
- Part Two Justifications for Human Rights
- Part Three Applications of Human Rights
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
It happens with some regularity. There is a newspaper report about a dissident who is arrested for questioning a public policy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The incidents do not always turn out the same way. For example, there is the case of Hu Jia, a human rights and AIDS activist who also criticized China’s hosting of the 2008 summer Olympics. Hu was arrested on April 3, 2008, and released June 26, 2011. While he was in jail his wife (another human rights activist) and daughter were held under house arrest. They disappeared the day before the opening ceremonies for the Olympics.
There is also the case of Liu Xiaobo who was arrested in June 2009 for inciting subversion of state power because of his participation in the Charter 08 manifesto on human rights: freedom of expression, democratic elections, and private enterprise (that was meant to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights). He was found guilty and sentenced to eleven years in prison. This was his fourth incarceration. On October 8, 2010, Liu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor he was personally not allowed to accept.
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