A man surfs the Internet at a coffee shop in Beijing in a file photo. AFP
China says it will crack down in 2017 on the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) to get around the complex system of blocks, filters, and human censorship known as the Great Firewall that limits what its citizens can see online. Continue reading
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Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang, January 21, 2017
Xie Yang and wife
Continued from Part One and Part Two
[The interview began at 2:49:55 p.m. on January 5, 2017.] Continue reading
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Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang, January 20, 2017
Xie Yang
Continued from Part One
(The interview started at 9:23:32 a.m. on January 5, 2017)
Chen Jiangang (陈建刚, “CHEN”): Today Lawyer Liu Zhengqing (刘正清) had to go back. Let’s continue our interview. Continue reading
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Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang and Liu Zhengqing, January 19, 2017
In a series of interviews, the still incarcerated human rights lawyer Xie Yang provided a detailed account of his arrest, interrogations, and the horrific abuses he suffered at the hands of police and prosecutors, to his two defense lawyers Chen Jiangang (陈建刚) and Liu Zhengqing (刘正清). This revelation, and the extraordinary circumstances of it, mark an important turn in the 709 crackdown on human rights lawyers. This group, seen as the gravest threat to regime security, has not been crushed, but instead has become more courageous and more determined. This is the first of several installments in English translation. — The Editors Continue reading
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Xie Yanyi with his family. Photo: CHRLCG.
Human rights lawyer Xie Yanyi has been reunited with his family on Wednesday after being detained for around 18 months, according to the Hong Kong-based China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group. Continue reading
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Pen name Liang Buzheng
Sex Male
Birth date 1975-03-20
Birth place
Resident place Miyun County, Beijing Continue reading
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