Monthly Archives: 7 月 2014

We’re Missing the Story-The Media’s Retreat From Foreign Reporting

By ANJAN SUNDARAMJULY 25, 2014

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The Democratic Republic of Congo, 2002. Two wars since 1996 have killed more than five million people. Credit Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos

LISBON — THE Western news media Continue reading

MP Early Day Motions : Release Of Chinese Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng

Posted on June 30, 2014 in Parliament Early Day Motions

That this House expresses concern about the imprisonment of Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and the lack of information about his physical and psychological wellbeing; notes that as a result of his work advocating for victims of human rights violations, including religious minorities, Continue reading

Update to UN on Gao Zhisheng – July 23, 2012

Jul 23, 2012 • 12:37 pm
To: UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) hereby respectfully submits an update concerning the enforced disappearance of Mr. GAO Zhisheng (高智晟), following the urgent appeal on behalf of Mr. Gao that we submitted on April 15, 2009. (See: “Communication on a Victim of an Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance,” http://chrdnet.com/2009/04/15/un-work-on-cases-gao-zhisheng-april-15-2009/.) Continue reading

Submission to UN on Gao Zhisheng – April 15, 2009

Apr 15, 2009 • 9:27 pm

Communication on a Victim of an Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance

To: Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

1. Identity of the disappeared person: Continue reading

Submission to UN on Gao Zhisheng – November 15, 2006

Nov 15, 2006 • 1:09 am

Communique to UN Special Procedures on Behalf of Gao Zhisheng, Alleging Arbitrary Detention, Interference in Independency of Lawyers, Retaliation against a Human Rights Defender, Violation of Freedom of Expression, and Torture or Cruel, Inhumane, Degrading Treatment

To: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Continue reading

CNN’s Diana Magnay is latest reminder that Twitter can be a journalist’s worst enemy

By Paul Farhi July 24

Among its many virtues and drawbacks, social media may be one of the most effective tools ever invented to assist journalists in harming their careers. Continue reading

Failure Is Our Muse

By STEPHEN MARCHEJULY 25, 2014


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Credit Bruno Zocca

JULY 8, in case you happened to miss it, was Fitz-Greene Halleck Day, a chance to remember the most intensely forgotten writer in American history. Continue reading

Don’t read this book: A history of literary censorship

Leo Robson reviews three new works concerned with banned literature.

BY LEO ROBSON PUBLISHED 25 JULY, 2014 – 12:35

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A Nazi book-burning. Photo: Getty
The Zhivago Affair: the Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
Peter Finn and Petra Couvée Continue reading