PUBLISHED ON JULY 10, 2014
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
PUBLISHED ON JULY 10, 2014
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
Journalists Sentenced to 10 Years in Myanmar已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News
Tagged Journalists, Myanmar, PEN American
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
Facebook’s online shaming mobs已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, Facebook
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
Lawyer Charged After Trying to Defend June 4 Commemorators已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chang Boyang, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
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
Chang Ping:Tiananmen Massacre not a “Passing Lapse” of the Chinese Government已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chang Ping, June 4th, Tiananmen
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
Dispatches: China’s Repression Isn’t Public Order已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Religious Freedom
Tagged Nanle, Paster, Sophie Richardson, Zhang Shaojie
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
Chinese Christian Pastor’s 12-Year Prison Term ‘A Miscarriage of Justice’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Religious Freedom
Tagged Christian Pastor, Nanle, Religious Freedom, Zhang Shaojie
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
Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng Indictment已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Guo Feixiong, Indictment, Sun Desheng
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