Government directive: ‘Sino-foreign joint ventures, Sino-foreign cooperative ventures and foreign business units shall not engage in online publishing services’
Only wholly Chinese owned companies will be able to publish online – subject to strict self-censorship Rex Features
China set to ban all foreign media from publishing online已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, Press Freedom
Tagged Ban, censorship, Media, online, publication
The defense attorney for jailed rights lawyer Li Heping discovered he was relieved of duty when he visited his client in detention, Feb. 18, 2016.
A number of prominent Chinese human rights lawyers being held on suspicion of subversion have allegedly “fired” their defense attorneys, but those familiar with the case said it was the authorities who terminated the defenders. Continue reading
Defense Attorneys For Jailed Chinese Rights Lawyers ‘Fired’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
19 February 2016 – The three year sentence handed down to Tibetan writer, translator and activist, Druklo (pen-name Shokjang), on 17 February 2016 is an appalling violation of free speech, PEN International said today. PEN believes that the charges brought against Shokjang by the intermediate public court in Malho Prefecture (Jainca County), which include instigating a separatist riot in the 2008 Tibetan unrest and writing articles detrimental to social security on social networks, are solely for exercising his right to free speech. PEN International calls for his immediate and unconditional release. Continue reading
18 February 2016, Hermina Wong
Publishing and bookselling associations based in the US and Europe have penned a joint letter to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, urging him to take action on the missing Causeway Bay booksellers. Continue reading
International publishers urge Chief Executive to take action on missing booksellers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, ICPC News, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, Causeway Bay Books, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lee Bo, Mighty Current, PEN, publishers
The Honorable Leung Chun-ying
Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
1 Tim Wa Avenue
Admiralty
Hong Kong
February 17, 2016
Your Excellency Chief Executive Leung: Continue reading
Posted in ICPC News, Press Freedom
Tagged Cheung Chi-ping, disappearance, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kee, Lee Bo, Leung Chun-ying, Lui Por, Mighty Current, PEN
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Birth place Dalian City, Liaoning Province
Resident place Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Education B.A. in journalism at Liaoning University Continue reading
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An undated publicity shot shows cast and crew during the making of the Hong Kong independent movie “10 Years.” Jevons Au
As Hong Kong struggles to maintain existing freedoms of expression in the face of growing pressure from Beijing, movie houses in the former British colony have mysteriously dropped an independent film depicting a dystopian future for the semiautonomous city in spite of massive success at the box office. Continue reading
