Say no to China’s membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council

On March 14, 2014, Cao Shunli, a Chinese human rights activist, diedin a Chinese military hospital after five and a half months in detention, with her body showing clear signs of brutal physical mistreatment. She had been arrested in September 2013 at the airport while trying to leave China to head to Geneva for a training session. That June, she had organized a sit-in outside the Foreign Ministry in Beijing, demanding that citizens be allowed to participate in preparing China’s human rights report to the United Nations. Read more