Monthly Archives: 5 月 2015

Wu Rongrong: How I Became a Women’s Rights Advocate

By Wu Rongrong, published: April 27, 2015

Wu Rongrong (武嵘嵘), though released along with the four other feminist activists on April 13, was subjected to grueling, humiliating interrogations on April 23rd and 24th. Don’t let the CCP machine destroy the very best of China. – The Editor

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Fate and chance made me a social worker and a feminist: gentle and timid in appearance, but a staunch defender of women’s rights. Continue reading

China Extends Detention of Rights Lawyer Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary

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Pu Zhiqiang (front right) attends a seminar about the Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing, May 3, 2014.
Photo courtesy of CHRD
Authorities in the Chinese capital have once more extended the detention of prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who has now spent a year behind bars without trial, after he marked Continue reading

YANG Jianli: To all Children of Prisoners of Conscience

Speech by YANG Jianli

at “Children of Prisoners of Conscience”—Organization Launch
The 10th InterEthnic/InterFaith Leadership Conference

April 29, 2015 Continue reading

FEAR – to poet WANG Zang

by Yifeng(逸风)

the selfie of Wang Zang(王藏)

Your shaved head
Is as the same as mine
Towering in the darkness behind the rain curtain
We know that light above your umbrella
Was the broken rain
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Chinese Dissident Optimistic China May End One-Child Policy

4D4D2090-C306-4E8C-A95D-37CCD73DBFEA_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy1_cw0FILE – Chai Ling, a former student leader during the Tiananmen Square protests, speaks as U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) stands behind her during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 18, 2011.

Yang Chen
May 03, 2015 5:01 PM

CAPITOL HILL—A leading Chinese dissident has told a U.S. congressional hearing that Continue reading

Q. and A.: Francis Fukuyama on China’s Political Development

By QITONG CAO MAY 1, 2015 4:18 AM May 1, 2015 4:18 am

Francis Fukuyama’s widely read essay “The End of History?” — published just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 — posited that Western liberal democracy may turn out to be the endpoint of political development. So when Mr. Fukuyama laid out what he considered Continue reading

Police in China’s Guangdong Move Ahead With Activist’s Subversion Trial

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Activist Su Changlan’s husband (C) is accompanied by two lawyers, Li Fang (L) and Wu Kuiming (R), in an undisclosed location on Nov 18, 2014.
(Photo courtesy of LiFangPing micro-channel.)

 

Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are moving ahead Continue reading