Monthly Archives: 6 月 2014

China’s ‘Sovereign Internet’

China is increasingly seeking not just domestic but international influence over cyberspace.
A new report in People’s Daily interviewed five Chinese experts on Internet security and political thought, including Fang Binxing (credited with creating China’s “Great Firewall”). Continue reading

China Activist to Stand Trial, Lawyer Says

By CHRIS BUCKLEY JUNE 24, 2014
HONG KONG — Prosecutors in southern China have decided to put on trial a well-known human rights campaigner, Yang Maodong, on charges of disrupting public order, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Continue reading

Announcement of Nomination for 2014 Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award of Independent Chinese PEN Center

Title: Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award

Awardee: one or two individual annually;

Candidacy: Anyone in the case list of Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN who is still imprisoned or released under legal restriction of the right to freedom of expression, such as “deprivation of political rights”; Continue reading

Hong Kong Voters Demand Election Reform in Unofficial Poll

 


People line up at a polling center to vote in an unofficial referendum on democratic reform in Hong Kong, June 22, 2014.

Da Hai Han

June 23, 2014 7:13 PM

An unofficial pro-democracy referendum in Hong Kong has been extended through next Sunday, with nearly 720,000 people voting in the past three days to change how city leadership is elected. Continue reading

Hong Kong voters embrace unofficial poll

By Juliana Liu

Hong Kong correspondent, BBC News

Occupy Central co-organisers announce the number of votes twenty-six hours after their unofficial referendum began in Hong Kong on 21 June, 2014

Organisers from the Occupy Central movement said the number of votes cast exceeded their expectations Continue reading

Families ‘Shocked’ Over Subversion Charge For Chinese Rights Lawyers

 


An undated photo of Tang Jingling.

Photo courtesy of Tang’s wife Wang Yanfang

Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have formally arrested prominent human rights lawyer Tang Jingling Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:“In the beginning was the Word”

by Tienchi Martin-Liao / December 18, 2013
On the fifth year of Liu Xiaobo’s imprisonment.


Liu Xia, wife of Liu Xiaobo. Image: Lunar New Year via Flickr.

Exactly five years ago, on December 6, 2008, Continue reading

“If I’m Not Speaking That Means I’m Dead”: An Interview with Liao Yiwu

by Tienchi Martin-Liao / January 7, 2014

Liao Yiwu (right) with Tienchi Martin-Liao in front of House Poem. Photo: TJ Murphy
On a warm May day in Pittsburgh in 2013, Liao Yiwu sat down with his long-time friend and colleague Tienchi Martin-Liao. Continue reading