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Journalists Sentenced to 10 Years in Myanmar

PUBLISHED ON JULY 10, 2014

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PEN American Center strongly protests the sentencing of an editor and four journalists in Myanmar to 10 years in prison. The journalists, from the newspaper Unity, Continue reading

Facebook’s online shaming mobs

This article is the part of the Index on Censorship Young Writers / Artists Programme

By Katie Dancey / 9 July, 2014
Twitter trolls, online mobs and “offensive” Facebook posts are constantly making headlines as authorities struggle to determine how to police social media. In a recent development, links posted on Facebook Continue reading

Lawyer Charged After Trying to Defend June 4 Commemorators

By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW JULY 7, 2014 4:23 AMJuly 7, 2014 11:45 pm

A meeting on May 3 in Beijing to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement led to the detentions of several participants and criminal charges against a prominent lawyer, Continue reading

Chang Ping:Tiananmen Massacre not a “Passing Lapse” of the Chinese Government

published: July 8, 2014

On June 4, Deutsche Welle published a piece by its China correspondent, Frank Sieren, titled: “From Tiananmen to Leipzig” (German, Chinese translation). In this article, Mr. Sieren takes an inventive angle on the bloody act Continue reading

Dispatches: China’s Repression Isn’t Public Order

JULY 8, 2014

Sophie Richardson

Peacefully holding aloft banners calling for an end to corruption. Peacefully protesting outside government buildings. Peacefully gathering to commemorate historical anniversaries. These efforts have in recent months led to activists Continue reading

Chinese Christian Pastor’s 12-Year Prison Term ‘A Miscarriage of Justice’

2014-07-08


Christian pastor Zhang Shaojie in detention in February 2014.
Photo courtesy of lawyer Liu Weiguo.
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan have handed a 12-year Continue reading

Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng Indictment

Guangdong Province, Guangzhou Municipal People’s Procuratorate for the Tianhe District

Indictment

GZ Tianhe Procuratorate criminal indict. (2014) No. 1343

 

Defendant Yang Maodong (a.k.a. Guo Feixiong), male, born August 2, 1966, ethnic Han, undergraduate university education level, ID number: 42010219660802****, place of household registration: [redacted by translators], Continue reading

Now Macau activists plan democracy poll in new headache for China

HONG KONG Tue Jul 8, 2014 10:09am IST

Visitors try a dice game at Gaming Expo Asia in Macau, in this file picture taken May 22, 2012.
CREDIT: REUTERS/BOBBY YIP/FILES
(Reuters) – Three activist groups in Chinese-ruled Macau, the world’s biggest gambling hub, Continue reading