Protesters call for resignation of Hong Kong’s chief executive, July 1, 2016. Photo courtesy of Ling Guo Li
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong on Friday to call for the resignation of the city’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, as a bookseller recently detained by China for selling ‘banned books’ to mainland Chinese customers withdrew from the demonstration, citing fears for his personal safety. Continue reading
Tens of Thousands March in Hong Kong, Police Fire Pepper Spray已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, Hong Kong, Lam Wing-kei, Leung Chun-ying, Protest, resignation
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks with media in a press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani after their meeting at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Two weeks after China’s President toured state media offices and called for absolute loyalty from the press, a website with links to the government published an explosive letter asking him to resign “for the future of the country and the people.” Continue reading
Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi’s resignation已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, open letter, resignation, Xi Jinping
A screenshot of Yu Xiaolei’s resignation letter to the Southern Metropolis Daily says: “I can’t take the surname of the Communist Party any more.”
A top editor at a cutting-edge newspaper in the southern Chinese Guangdong province resigned after the ruling Chinese Communist Party imposed new media controls, the journalist announced on social media. Continue reading
Chinese Editor Resigns Amid Growing Pressure to Toe the Party Line已关闭评论
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Tagged Chang Ping, resignation, Southern Metropolis Daily, Yu Shaolei, Zhang Ping
Sex Male
Birth date 1980-08-08
Birth place Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province
Resident place Beijing and Hong Kong
Education B.A. in Chinese Literature at Nanjing University Continue reading
220. JIA JIA (released)已关闭评论
Posted in China, Internet Freedom
Tagged Jia Jia, open letter, resignation, Xi Jinping
A plane at Beijing airport. It is not known if Jia Jia boarded his flight to Hong Kong. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
A Chinese journalist has reportedly disappeared while attempting to fly from Beijing to Hong Kong, stoking fears he has become the latest victim of a widening Communist party crackdown on dissent. Continue reading
Chinese journalist ‘disappears’ while trying to fly to Hong Kong已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged disappearance, Jia Jia, open letter, resignation, Xi Jinping
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks with media in a press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani after their meeting at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Two weeks after China’s President toured state media offices and called for absolute loyalty from the press, a website with links to the government published an explosive letter asking him to resign “for the future of the country and the people.” Continue reading
Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi’s resignation已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, Press Freedom
Tagged Caixin, censorship, Media, open letter, Ren Zhiqiang, resignation, Xi Jinping, Zhou Fang
