By Zeng Jinyan, published: October 30, 2014
“Watching his friends, who happen to be the hope of a better China, going to prison one after another, is more than personal shame. It is the shame of our time.”
Kou Yanding was taken away by police in Beijing on October 10th for “picking quarrels and provoking disturbances.” The day before on October 9th, Guo Yushan was criminally detained on the same charge. Continue reading
Friends Gone to Jail – Chinese Activists Kou Yanding and Guo Yushan已关闭评论
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Tagged Democracy, Guo Yushan, Hong Kong, Kou Yanding, Occupy Central movement
Young turn to social media as newspapers and TV stations owned by local tycoons take care not to offend mainland China
Students in Hong Kong
Students demonstrate in Hong Kong, where protests are now in their second month. Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Continue reading
Hong Kong protests bring crisis of confidence for traditional media已关闭评论
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Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Internet Freedom, Occupy Central movement, Press Freedom
3:40 pm HKT Oct 27, 2014
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le take photos during a vigil held to mark the 24th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square, in front of a backdrop of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City (back), in Hong Kong, on June 4, 2013 Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Hundreds gathered under polluted skies Continue reading
Under Cloud of Repression, Hundreds Turn Out to Mourn Tiananmen Square ‘Black Hand’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chen Ziming, June 4th, Tiananmen
Published: October 27, 2014
Shen Yongping (沈勇平) is a documentary maker living in Beijing best known for making One Hundred Years of Constitutionalism (《百年宪政》) (trailer in Chinese), now available on YouTube. He was detained in April of this year, and charged with illegal business operations. His trial will be held at 9:30 am on November 4th, 2014, Continue reading
Shen Yongping’s Indictment已关闭评论
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The chat application LINE has strengthened its censorship methods in mainland China by targeting phrases and word combinations.
By Pao- Pao / 23 October, 2014
(Image: Screengrab from linecorp.com/en/)
The instant Continue reading
Stricter and subtler: how China has ramped up instant messaging censorship已关闭评论
Posted in Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
By CHRIS BUCKLEY OCT. 23, 2014
HONG KONG — The police in Beijing have formally charged an 81-year-old writer, Tie Liu, for privately publishing the testimony of aged or dead victims of Mao Zedong’s wrath Continue reading
Beijing Formally Charges Writer Who Published Memoirs of Victims of Mao Era已关闭评论
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Tagged Tie Liu
A commentary by Bao Tong
2014-10-24
Wen Yongfen, the mother of jailed dissident Chen Ziming, holds a photo of her cancer-stricken son during a discrete protest in a Beijing park Oct 22, 1995.
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Chen Ziming was arrested in late 1989 for his involvement in the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests Continue reading
Chen Ziming – Veteran Dissident ‘Who Worried About China And Its People’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chen Ziming, June 4th, Tiananmen
October 22, 2014
HRIC has learned that, Chen Shuqing (陈树庆), a core member of the China Democracy Party’s Zhejiang Committee, has been formally arrested. The official charge cannot be confirmed at this Continue reading
Zhejiang Activist Chen Shuqing Formally Arrested已关闭评论
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