Monthly Archives: 6 月 2014

PU ZHIQIANG:‘June Fourth’ Seventeen Years Later: How I Kept a Promise

08.10.06

The weekend of June 3, 2006, was the seventeenth anniversary of the Beijing massacre and also the first time I ever received a summons. It happened, as the police put it, Continue reading

Chinese Fathers Who Beat Their Kids Get a Beating Online

3:26 pm HKT Jun 13, 2014

According to Weibo, most Chinese fathers aren’t as comforting as this one, Continue reading

McDonald’s Murder Sparks Chinese Cult Crackdown

BEIJING June 13, 2014

By WENYAN DENG
: This screen shot, taken on May 31, 2014, shows Zhang Lidong being detained by police. Lidong was part of a group that killed a woman at a McDonalds restaurant in Zhaoyuan, China on May 28, 2014. Continue reading

China: Detention of human rights defenders following commemoration of 1989 Tiananmen Square protests Take action on behalf of human rights defenders in China.

Copy the enclosed letter and send it to the address provided.

Thank you for taking action.

Target adresses:
Ms. Wu Aiying
Minister of Justice of the People’s Republic of China, Continue reading

Publishers’ group criticizes wholesaler’s new regulations as favoring large media companies

15:27 Jun 11 2014 Germany, European Union
The German working group for mid-sized publishers (AMV) criticized new regulations agreed upon by the national press wholesaler Presse-Grosso, Continue reading

China frees artist held for Tiananmen anniversary

Associated PressAssociated Press – Sat, Jun 14, 2014

FILE – In this April 29, 2014 file photo, Chen Guang, former Chinese soldier turned artist, poses for a photo after a performance to Continue reading

Arrested Chinese Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang Speaks from Prison

THE EDITORS 06.13.14

Early this morning, the Beijing Public Security Bureau formally arrested rights-defense lawyer Pu Zhiqiang on charges of picking quarrels and illegally Continue reading

Hong Kong media outlets feel Beijing’s pressure as ads vanish

By Michael Forsythe and Neil Gough / NY Times News Service, HONG KONG

 

In what may be a major escalation of pressure by Beijing on Hong Kong’s independently minded news media outlets, two major British banks have stopped advertising with one of the territory’s biggest newspapers, a top media executive said. Continue reading