Xu Zhiyong's disappearance comes amid concern about increasing pressure on activist lawyers in China
Police have detained a leading human rights lawyer in a dawn raid, less than a fortnight after the pioneering legal centre he helped found was shut down.
Xu Zhiyong's disappearance comes amid growing concern about increasing pressure on activist lawyers in China. Two weeks ago, more than 50 advocates known for taking sensitive cases had their licences revoked. Others have been detained and harassed for their work.

Rebiya Kadeer says undercover snatch squads targeted Uighurs during Urumqi clashes
Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled Uighur leader, today claimed that almost 10,000 Uighurs had "disappeared" during ethnic unrest in China's north-western region of Xinjiang earlier this month and called on the international community to launch an inquiry.
Speaking during a controversial visit to Japan, Kadeer said Chinese authorities had used undercover "snatch squads" to target Uighurs during clashes between Uighur and Han Chinese in the city of Urumqi on 5 July.

Taxi Drivers on Strike over Low Income in E China City
Xinhua News Agency, July 28, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/28/content_1178735...

Foshan Villagers March Demanding Land Compensation
Radio Free Asia, July 28, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/tudi-07282009160324....

Villagers in Sanya, Hainan Protest for Higher Pay; Clash with Company Reps Leaves Many Injured
Radio Free Asia, July 28, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/hainan-0728200917462...

Many Detained after 200 Police and Civilians Clash in Dazhou, Sichuan
Radio Free Asia, July 28, 2009

Mr. Sun Xiaojun from Fuyang City was tortured to the point of death by the Zhejiang Province Police Department and the Fourth Prison of Linping City. Since being released on June 30th, 2009, he had not been able to eat. He vomited even drinking water and was bedridden even while relieving himself. He was delirious and experienced continual cramping in his body. At 11:00 p.m. on July 15th, 2009, he passed away.

On 21 July more than 100 villagers of Tiefo town, Tongjiang county, Sichuan, surrounded and stormed the Tiefo police station due to corruption by village and town cadres; a patrol car was smashed; currently four villagers are in custody; this was confirmed to us by the Tiefo police station. After the Xinjiang "7.5" incident, Hubei's Shishou city has issued massive summons to arrest the participants in the extraordinarily massive demonstration on 20 June; 120 people are in custody, 20 of whom are formally arrested; some demonstrators may face the death penalty.

Venerdi 24 Luglio.
Chen Guojun ,imbelle e corrotto General Manager designato dal partito comunista,stava per rendere pubblico un piano di ristrutturazione aziendale quando un gruppo di operai ha fatto irruzione nel suo ufficio e lo ha giustiziato.
A nulla è valso l’intervento del sindacato di stato che ,illudendosi di avere ancora una qualche influenza sui lavoratori ,ha cercato disperatamente di salvare la vita al suo mecenate.

Chinese steelworkers clashed with police in a protest over plans to merge their mill with another company and beat the company's general manager to death, a human rights monitor said Saturday.
Several hundred people were injured in the clash Friday in the northeastern city of Tonghua, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said in a faxed statement.
Angry Tonghua employees attacked Jianlong general manager Chen Guojun during the protest and beat him to death, the center said. It said friends of Chen confirmed he was dead.

Chinese police in Chamdo have arrested an 18 year-old Tibetan schoolboy for opposing Chinese rule.
Lobsang Nyandak, a student of Guru Gewa School, left the school compound with a friend on Sunday June 28, 2009. The two headed towards the town and strolled around the market for some time. Around evening Lobsang stayed back and sent his friend back to school.

Le comunicazioni si fanno sempre più difficili.Ecco una sintesi degli ultimi avvenimenti:
- Golok : un giovane tibetano è stato freddato dalla polizia cinese.Amici e parenti che chiedevano spiegazioni sull’accaduto sono stati prima brutalmente percossi e poi arrestati

- Chamdo : un tibetano è stato arrestato dopo aver inscenato una protesta nei pressi della sede locale del partito comunista cinese

- Ngapa: il 23 Luglio 5 tibetani sono stati condannati a lunghe pene detentive

Mila
Corrispondente di Dossier Tibet dai Territori Occupati

A 36 years old man Gonlha of Dhari Shen, Golok, Tibet was killed by Chinese police.

ANKARA — Turkey government has come under internal political pressure to suspend defense relations with China.
Turkish government sources said Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has received appeals from Islamist parliamentarians to suspend defense projects with China. The sources said many members of the ruling Justice and Development Party have been angered by China's crackdown on Uighur Muslims.

"Nothing has been affected yet, but there is a threat that Erdogan will have to respond to the Chinese crackdown," a government source said.

Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6MJLRcTDFA&feature=related

Farmers in central China stage protests against a government land grab as similar demonstrations erupt in the country's coastal provinces.
HONG KONG—Villagers in one of the poorest regions of China vowed they would fight a government proposal to use their farmland for a cement factory as a deadline for agreement set by local officials only last week passed on Wednesday.

There are approximately 200 Falun Gong practitioners detained at Henan Province Women's Prison (also known as the Xinxiang Women's Prison). In 2005, it was recognized as a "model" ministerial-level prison because of the way the guards there viciously tortured practitioners.