Published: October 3, 2015
Dissent keeps rolling in, not only from “dissidents.” Over the week-long National Day holidays in China, Ren Zhiqiang (任志強), a high-profile real estate mogul who has earned the nickname “the Cannon” online for his provocative opinions, took aim at the notion of the “New China.” Continue reading
By MICHAEL FORSYTHE OCT. 12, 2015
HONG KONG — The 16-year-old son of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer is now living under house arrest in northern China after being snatched at a Myanmar border town last week as he was trying to escape to the United States, a family friend said.
Bao Zhuoxuan, the son of the prominent human rights lawyer Wang Yu, Continue reading
Bao Zhuoxuan, Son of Rights Lawyer Held in China, Is Said to Be Under House Arrest已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Bao Zhuoxuan, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
Published: October 1, 2015
“Why would the results of a poll conducted by a neutral, respected polling organization tally so closely with the propaganda of a totalitarian government?”
Can it be that 92.8% of Chinese poll respondents are truly satisfied with the Chinese central government, and that among these, 37.6% are “extremely satisfied”? For over a decade, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Continue reading
Chang Ping: We’d Be Satisfied With Any Government!已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Chang Ping, Gao Yu, Ilham Tohti, Liu Xiaobo, Xu Zhiyong
Petitioning Members of the UK Parliament
Stand Up for International Principles and Call on China to End Its Human Rights Violations
Tibetan Uyghur Chinese Solidarity UK （TUCS） London, United Kingdom
Dear Members of Parliament,
In October 2015, the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will make an official State Visit to Britain. We, the undersigned, are calling on the UK government to Continue reading
Stand Up for International Principles and Call on China to End Its Human Rights Violations已关闭评论
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Tagged China, Human Rights, Human Rights Lawyer
Published: October 4, 2015
“[T]he existence of a relatively free, relaxed, and anonymous Internet for the regime is ‘the root of all evil.’”
August 5 was the last day that opinions were solicited by the government for its new Internet Security Law, meaning that in the near future the legislation will be formally unveiled. In draft form, many of its clauses have already attracted scrutiny: for example, Continue reading
Mo Zhixu: Fear of Losing Control: Why China Is Implementing an Internet Security Law已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom, Mo Zhixu
2015-10-09
Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu poses during an interview in Hong Kong, March 20, 2014.
AFP
Authorities in Myanmar have detained the teenage son of detained Chinese rights lawyer Wang Yu in a murky cross-border operation after he was denied permission Continue reading
Teen Son of Detained Rights Lawyer ‘Taken Away’ From Myanmar Guesthouse已关闭评论
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Tagged Bao Zhuoxuan, Human Rights Lawyer, Myanmar, Wang Yu
October 07, 2015 8:23 AM
HONG KONG —A year ago, Hong Kong’s famously busy streets were shut down by pro-democracy protesters in the so-called “Umbrella Movement”, a moniker that came Continue reading
A Year On, Mixed Views on What Hong Kong Protests Achieved已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement, Umbrella Movement
2015-10-08
Liu Xia (r) and rights lawyer Mo Shaoping (l) arrive at her brother Liu Hui’s trial in Beijing on April 23, 2013.
AFP
Five years after being awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, activists are calling on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to release his wife Liu Xia, Continue reading
Five Years On, Liu Xiaobo’s Wife Stays Silent, Under House Arrest已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
Tagged Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo
