As of July 18, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function).
Ling Jihua
A rumor has spread that Ling Jihua’s younger brother, Ling Wancheng, and his nephew, Ling Hujian, Continue reading
As of July 18, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function).
Ling Jihua
A rumor has spread that Ling Jihua’s younger brother, Ling Wancheng, and his nephew, Ling Hujian, Continue reading
Sensitive Words: New Gang of Four and More已关闭评论
Posted in Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom, Ling Jihua, New Gang of Four, Sensitive Words
Index CEO reflects on the changes wrought by the fall of the Berlin Wall as part of #AftertheWall
By Jodie Ginsberg / 11 July, 2014
After the Wall panelists.
Martin Roth, Kate Maltby, Sebastion Borger, David Edgar, Tomasz Kitlinski and Timothy Garton Ash.
In 1977, the Russian dissident Alexander Ginzburg — whose detention and sentencing almost a Continue reading
Jodie Ginsberg: The new dissidents已关闭评论
Posted in History
Tagged Berlin Wall, Dissidents, Jodie Ginsberg
UN body rules that Ilham Tohti’s detention “arbitrary,” violates intl law & requests China to release him immediately Continue reading
UN body rules that Ilham Tohti’s detention “arbitrary,” violates intl law & requests China to release him immediately已关闭评论
Tagged Ilham Tohti, Uighur
by Project Pengyou on July 14th, 2014
What China books are worth reading?
The once mysterious Middle Kingdom has long since been opened to the outside world, and where there was previously a dearth of good literature, there’s now a mountain of China books. Continue reading
A China Reading Rainbow | China Hang-up已关闭评论
Posted in Publications
Tagged China Hang-up, Reading Rainbow
By AMY QIN JULY 17, 2014 4:47 AMJuly 17, 2014 7:15 am
Is Superman, depicted here in a mural in Beijing, a weapon being deployed to turn Chinese away from their own heroes?Credit Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency
Tensions between the United States and China over Continue reading
17 July 2014 RAN
Five journalists with the Unity weekly journal, arrested in January and February 2014, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labour on 10 July 2014 over a report about an Continue reading
MYANMAR: Five journalists sentenced to 10 years in prison; 50 others face charges for a peaceful protest已关闭评论
Posted in PEN International News, Rapid Action Network
Tagged Journalists, Myanmar, Sentenced to Prison
Investigative journalists in China have always had to bow to censorship and worry about being arrested. But this year, the Communist party has stopped them from working altogether
Malcolm Moore By Malcolm Moore, Beijing7:00AM BST 17 Jul 2014
For years a journalist who I shall call Mr Chen has run the investigation unit of one of China’s most daring newspapers. Continue reading
Advice for journalists in China: Hire a lawyer已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged China, Investigative Journalists, Journalists, Lawyer