Violent forced evictions in China are on the rise as local authorities seek to offset huge debts by seizing and then selling off land in suspect deals with property developers, Amnesty International said as it urged government action. In a new 85-page report, Amnesty International highlights how forced evictions – a longstanding cause of discontent within China – have increased significantly in the past two years in order to clear the way for developments.
Forced evictions in China have risen significantly in recent years as local officials sell off land to property developers, Amnesty International says. Many cases involve violence and harassment, in what the group called “a gross violation of human rights”. Pressure on local officials to meet economic goals and vested interests were behind the coercion, it said.
In the BBC link, it’s possible to watch a video about the forced evictions.
August 10, 2012 By Simon Rabinovitch Sim Chi Yin’s photographs explore beneath the streets of the city, where China’s low-income workers squash into tiny living spaces The man looking after the tiny one-room apartments in the basement of the Beijing high rise was nervous. “The outside world doesn’t need to know about this. It will […]
August 7, 2012 China’s commercial hub of Shanghai was rushing to relocate people in order to avoid risks posed by the approaching severe typhoon Haikui, officials with the municipal flood control headquarters said Tuesday. It was estimated that over 200,000 people threatened by typhoon Haikui would be relocated before 9 p.m. Tuesday, said Zhang Zhenyu, […]
July 28, 2012 As the capital floods, its government carries the can FOR a capital city which, unusually, is situated neither on a coastline nor along the banks of a big river, Beijing has been under water a lot of late. In June last year violent rainstorms overwhelmed the antiquated drainage system, inundating roads and […]
June 6, 2012 United States, Canada and China, with occasional support from other countries (like Russia), depending on the situation, are boycotting the minimum possible Rio +20 conclude with concrete progress in terms of measures to reverse the global environmental crisis. The boycott of these countries was evident in the third round of informal negotiations […]
May 24, 2012 China’s Ministry of Finance said on Thursday it had given 66 billion yuan ($10.5 billion) to local governments to help build public housing for rent, one of five categories of state-subsidized affordable housing. The money, which the ministry said had been dispersed recently, will build public-rent housing, the second-lowest tier of homes […]
April 26, 2012 The Beijing Star Brand Building Materials West Factory has been demolished, and in its place is a construction pit crawling with dump trucks as cranes tower above. This is the future home of the Taiheyuan Affordable Housing Project, which will have grocery stores, restaurants, and 2,400 apartments for factory hands and other […]
April 10th, 2012 by Josh Chin, with contributions from Olivia Geng A disabled former lawyer who has clashed repeatedly with authorities while assisting people illegally evicted from their homes was sentenced on Tuesday to two years and eight months in prison for fraud and “creating a disturbance,” her attorney said. The sentence marks the latest sign […]
Published in Tuesday February 1st, 2011
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