“Harvesting human organs is beyond barbaric, it’s unimaginably grotesque and evil,” he said.” And it’s a sick day in America when our government punishes those who expose evil with a smartphone—while accommodating those who perform it with a scalpel.”
Profiting from it is even worse.
Taking them from Political prisoners is even worse yet..
And taking them from Falun Dafa practitioners is unforgiveable.
Monday, January 25, 2016
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
China's state media accuses Wang of "blabbering about the rule of law and human rights."
China Arrests Country's Most Prominent Female Human Rights Lawyer
Wang Yu was arrested as part of a crackdown on activists who have helped people fight for their legal rights.
MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chinese authorities on Wednesday arrested prominent female human rights lawyer, Wang Yu, on charges of subverting the state.
BEIJING, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have formally arrested China's most prominent woman human rights lawyer, accusing her of subverting the state, her lawyer said on Wednesday, as part of a crackdown on activists who have helped people fight for their legal rights.
The lawyer, Wang Yu, was taken into custody last July and accused the next month of inciting subversion and "causing a disturbance."
On Wednesday, Wang's mother received a notice, dated Monday, from police in the northern city of Tianjin, said Wang's lawyer, Li Yuhan. Tianjin police declined to comment when reached by telephone.
Wang is the best-known human rights lawyer targeted in an unprecedented nationwide sweep by Chinese police last July, during which hundreds of lawyers were detained. A formal arrest usually leads to a trial and conviction by China's party-controlled courts.
China has formally arrested at least five Chinese human rights lawyers on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power" and subverting state power after months of secret detention, one of their colleagues said on Tuesday.
MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
In China, subversion charges are commonly leveled against critics of one-party rule. Subversion of state power carries a possible life sentence.
"Wang Yu has provided her legal services to people on the lowest rungs of society. I never thought that she would be charged with subversion of state power," Li said. "I just don't understand this."
Li said she had not met Wang since her client's detention. According to Li, police denied her requests to meet Wang seven times in the past six months on the grounds that Wang's case "endangered state security."
Wang has defended Wu Gan, an online free speech advocate, Li Tingting, a prominent rights activist, and Cao Shunli, an activist who died in detention after being denied medical treatment.
Last year, China's state media accused Wang of "blabbering about the rule of law and human rights." Two weeks after the report, she told a Reuters reporter that she thought her arrest was inevitable.
(Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Nick Macfie)
Monday, January 4, 2016
thanks for the support media lawyers
Yikes. Stock markets around the world are nosediving. From China to Germany to the United States, it's an ugly day for investors.
People are losing money. Here's the 2-minute lowdown on what the heck is going on.Call it a "D-grade" performance, but it's not quite an F.
The Dow is down over 400 points, which is a lot. But it's not "the sky is falling" bad. It doesn't even rank among the 10 worst trading days in the past decade.
Investors have seen a lot worse in recent months. Remember August? The Dow sank 1,000 points after the opening bell one day and logged two REALLY ugly days when it closed down over 500 points.
Today's selloff is the sharpest plunge since September 1, when the Dow fell 470 points.
The key is what happens tomorrow. Big slides are often followed by big surges.
2. Is this a correction? A bear market?
Not yet.
The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq are about 7% below their all-time highs. They need to fall 10% below to be in a correction. And they need to fall a whopping 20% to be considered a really deep "bear market."
Here are the correction levels for the major indexes:
Dow needs to get below 16,516 to be in a correction. (It's currently about 17,000)
S&P 500 needs to get below 1,921 to be in a correction. (It's currently around 1,998).
Dow needs to get below 4,709 to be in a correction. (It's currently around 4,870).
3. What's going on?
The main worry is China. The day kicked off with the release of some really poor Chinese manufacturing data. It's the latest red flag that China's economy is still struggling. But the problem is no one knows just how bad it really is because Chinese government stats are notoriously unreliable.
It also didn't help that China's main stock market in Shanghai actually halted trading because stocks were down so much (about 7%).
As if that wasn't enough, Iran and Saudi Arabia are back at each other. That doesn't bode well for the Middle East, a key oil producing region. Oil prices have been super volatile lately. Crude oil is currently sitting at about $36.50 a barrel. Oil fell below $35 in mid-December, causing stock prices to fall.
CNNMoney's Fear & Greed Index, which looks at seven measures of investor sentiment, dipped into Fear territory on Monday.
4. Even tech stocks are getting hammered
By far and away the top stocks last year were Netflix and Amazon. But they had a queasy start to 2016. Here's how some favorite U.S. tech stocks are doing:
Netflix (NFLX, Tech30) -6.5%
Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) -5.5%
Apple (AAPL, Tech30) -1.5%
Netflix and Amazon were hit by Wall Street experts publishing notes that those stocks aren't so good looking after all. Apple, like many big U.S. companies, was hurt because it sells a lot of phones in China.
5. But it's a good day for bonds, gold and a few stocks
Investment experts preach the gospel of diversification -- the notion that you should own some bonds and other assets in addition to just stocks. Today is a good example of how that philosophy can help your performance.
There was a lot of carnage in stocks, but investors were buying bonds and gold, sending those prices higher. Gold is up 2%.
6. Does this mean the U.S. economy is in a recession?
The short answer: No.
The stock market is NOT the economy. While a slowdown in China has some impact on the U.S. because American companies like Apple sell products there, the vast majority of the U.S. economy is made up of Americans buying things at home.
Most economists still predict the U.S. economy will grow about 2% to 2.5% this year, a good but not great level of growth that is similar to what we saw in 2015.
--CNNMoney's Matt Egan and Paul La Monica contributed to this report.
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