On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) of the US Congress held a hearing about human rights in China on the eve of the 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China. Two of the most outstanding human rights champions in the US Congress, Rep. Frank Wolf and Rep. Chris Smith, co-chaired the hearing.

Various experts were invited to testify at the hearing, including Wei Jingsheng of the China Labor Union, Harry Wu of the Laogai Research Foundation, Ting Shum of the League of Chinese Victims, and Sophie Richardson of Human Rights Watch.

Tibetans face increased restrictions on prayer and travel ahead of a sensitive Chinese anniversary.
DHARAMSALA—As authorities prepare for sensitive anniversary celebrations across China, a growing security presence in the country’s west is limiting the religious practices and travel of Tibetans, residents say.
The increased security, residents say, is targeting several areas within China’s Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), as well as other parts of the country inhabited by Tibetans.

Right before October 1, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sealed off Beijing and spent a fortune for a large-scale military show. Meanwhile, the CCP's 60 years of robbing China also become a hot subject. In the evening of September 16, Wei Jingsheng, the chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, attended and spoke at a seminar in the greater Washington metro area. He expressed that the most important lesson we learned from the past 60 years is to aim at the Chinese Communist Party.

It's been sixty years since China went under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The upcoming gala for celebration however does not appear it is going to be an all-happy but rather all-worrying event full of tension and anxieties, as if some enemies are coming. It is said that, gathered in Beijing alone, there are 1.2 million armed police and security guards forming a network of agents with one person from another only steps away, in addition to the plain-clothed patrols in between.

Rizhao local officials crashed the graduation ceremony to declare the church registration revoked, and confiscate property.

Forum Gathers to Remember Six Decades of Violence
Chinese human rights observers gathered to discuss the regime’s rule
ROCKVILLE, Maryland—On Sept. 16, two weeks prior to China’s National Day celebration, a group of prominent dissidents gathered to condemn the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The Dag Hammerskjold Plaza opposite the United Nations building in New York was filled with angry protesters yesterday as Chinese president Hu Jintao arrived to deliver his first address at the United Nations on climate change.
Tibetans, Chinese, Taiwanese, Burmese, and Falun Dafa followers voiced their angst in unison against the Chinese president who they accused of oppressing thousands of innocent peoples.

The father of an ethnic Uyghur man in northwest China says police turned out in force.
HONG KONG—Police in China’s remote Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region surrounded the home of an ethnic Uyghur man who died in police custody and forced the family to bury him without an inquiry into how he died, the man’s father said.
The burial on Sunday ended a tense standoff between police in remote Lengger [in Chinese, Langan] village and the family of Shohret Tursun, 31, whose badly bruised and disfigured body was released to his relatives on Saturday.

BEIJING – Nearly a hundred university students gathered outside a Beijing district police bureau Sunday to demand the release of a lecturer — a former leader of 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy demonstrations — who they believe is being held unfairly by authorities.
It was the second day that students turned up at the public security bureau in the capital's Haidian district to call on police to release Ding Xiaoping, who lectures on various topics at several universities, said Yu Zhiwei, who joined the students Sunday.

As China intensifies its surveillance over the Internet in preparation for one of the country’s most sensitive holidays, October 1, the National Holiday, Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s three popular Internet sites, namely Mongol Ger Association (http://www.mongolger.net), Mongol People Chat Room (MGLhun), and Mongolian People (www.mongolhun.com), have been shutdown and one website, Home Place of Mongolia (www.mglzaluus.com ), has been blocked by the Chinese authorities since September 9 for discussing issues related to the ethnic problems of Mongolian people in China.Two of the four sites were gi

China's ruling Communist Party (CPC) has vowed to take tough action on ethnic separatist activity, as it concludes its annual conference.
Following its four-day summit, the CPC announced it intended to "effectively prevent and resolutely crack down on ethnicity-related separatist activities".

TIBET
Dal 9 Marzo 2008 si sono registrate proteste e manifestazioni in 112 località
Arresti effettuati nel periodo 9/3/2008 - 19/9/2009
- 5840 religiosi
- 3294 laici
Totale al 19/9 : 9134
NB : il 10 Agosto il "United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination"ha ricevuto una comunicazione scritta da Pechino nella quale si "certifica"che ad oggi sono state rilasciate 1231 persone.

Fotografie di alcuni degli arrestati :

http://www.stoptibetcrisis.net/breakingnews.html
http://www.tchrd.org/press/2009/pr20090221.html

Authorities storm a house church in northern China, beating worshipers and demolishing buildings in the compound.
HONG KONG—Members of an unofficial Christian organization in northern China's Shanxi province were under virtual house arrest following a violent attack on their church and factory building earlier this week, church members said.

A Chinese state news agency says security forces have arrested six suspects in a bomb-making operation in the volatile western region of Xinjiang.
The official Xinhua News Agency says the six had plotted bombings and that large amounts of bomb-making materials were seized during their arrests.
The report Wednesday does not say when the raid took place.
Xinhua says the suspects began making bombs following ethnic rioting in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi in July.