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Joyce Huang: Detained Lawyers’ Families Send Open Letter to China’s Xi Jinping

Posted on 10/29/2016 by | Joyce Huang: Detained Lawyers’ Families Send Open Letter to China’s Xi Jinping已关闭评论
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China Lawyers Crackdown: In this Wednesday, July 6, 2016 photo, Yuan Shanshan, the wife of detained Chinese lawyer Xie Yanyi, holds an official notice of Xie’s detention from the Tianjin Public Security Bureau in their apartment in Miyun, on the outskirts of Beijing.

As China hosts high-level political meetings in Beijing, the families of five jailed human rights lawyers have written President Xi Jinping an open letter, urging the top leader to stop a controversial nationwide crackdown of lawyers. Continue reading →

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Rights Groups Slam China’s Record Ahead of U.N. Council Vote

Posted on 10/27/2016 by | Rights Groups Slam China’s Record Ahead of U.N. Council Vote已关闭评论
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Family members and lawyers of detained lawyers and their colleagues gather after another attempt to seek answers about China’s biggest-ever crackdown on human rights lawyers in Tianjin, Jan. 8, 2016. AFP

Prominent rights activists and campaigners have called on democratic members of the United Nations to block China’s re-election on Friday for another two-year term on its Human Rights Council. Continue reading →

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Man Booker Prize: Paul Beatty becomes first US winner for The Sellout

Posted on 10/26/2016 by | Man Booker Prize: Paul Beatty becomes first US winner for The Sellout已关闭评论

By Tim Masters Arts and entertainment correspondent

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Paul Beatty with the Duchess of Cornwall. PA

Paul Beatty has become the first US author to win the Man Booker Prize with his racial satire The Sellout.

His novel tells the story of a young black man who tries to reinstate slavery and racial segregation in a suburb of Los Angeles. Continue reading →

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Karishma Vaswani: China plenum: Looking for clues on China’s economy

Posted on 10/24/2016 by | Karishma Vaswani: China plenum: Looking for clues on China’s economy已关闭评论
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Food for thought? What comes out of China’s Communist Party plenums is often limited.

China’s top Communist party officials are in Beijing for a four-day, behind-closed-doors meeting this week.

The plenum kicks off a big year for China, building up to next year’s party congress, a twice-a-decade event. Continue reading →

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Czech president accused of scrapping Holocaust survivor medal due to Dalai Lama

Posted on 10/22/2016 by | Czech president accused of scrapping Holocaust survivor medal due to Dalai Lama已关闭评论

By Robert Muller | PRAGUE

Czech Republic's President Milos Zeman addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S. September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

Czech Republic’s President Milos Zeman addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S. September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

PRAGUE Czech President Milos Zeman has decided against awarding a state medal to a Holocaust survivor after the man’s nephew, a Czech government minister, met exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama against the president’s wishes, the minister said on Friday. Continue reading →

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PEN INTERNATIONAL RESOLUTION ON THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Posted on 10/21/2016 by | PEN INTERNATIONAL RESOLUTION ON THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA已关闭评论

pen-logoPEN International has for many years expressed concern about serious and sweeping restrictions on freedom of expression in China, including through resolutions adopted at its annual Congresses, most recently at its 81st World Congress in October 2015.  Continue reading →

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Saudi Arabia must not flog Raif Badawi for blogging

Posted on 10/20/2016 by | Saudi Arabia must not flog Raif Badawi for blogging已关闭评论

Update #9 to RAN 02/13

raif-badawi20 October 2016 – PEN International is deeply concerned by news reports, as yet unconfirmed, that the Saudi government may resume the lashing punishment against blogger Raif Badawi, currently serving a 10-year sentence in Saudi Arabia. The news was announced in a statement by The Raif Badawi Foundation, which said it had received the confirmation from the same source that had notified his family about the first 50 of 1,000 lashes, which Badawi was given on 9 January, 2015. After his first flogging, Badawi’s remaining 950 lashes were postponed indefinitely on medical grounds. Continue reading →

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Tutul receives PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage Prize 2016 with Margaret Atwood

Posted on 10/17/2016 by | Tutul receives PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage Prize 2016 with Margaret Atwood已关闭评论
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PEN Pinter prize awardee Margaret Atwood announced tonight Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury (Tutul) the winner of the PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage Prize.

Bangladeshi publisher, writer and editor Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury (known as Tutul) has this evening, 13 October 2016, been named 2016 International Writer of Courage by Margaret Atwood at the PEN Pinter Prize ceremony at the British Library. Continue reading →

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