A screen shot from the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group’s Facebook page showing detained family members and attorneys, June 7, 2016. RFA
Rights activists and lawyers have hit out at new regulations brought in by the ruling Chinese Communist Party placing further restrictions on lawyers’ ability to protest abuses of judicial power. Continue reading
Chinese Lawyers Who Highlight Abuse of Clients To Lose Jobs Under New Rules已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged abuse, Lawyer, regulation
Your brain is amazing. Just don’t wash it.
Today we are talking about expressions to describe people who are not in their right minds. People who are not in their right minds are not thinking in a normal, healthy way. Continue reading
Anna Matteo: Brainwash: Not as Clean as You Think已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged brainwash, Korean War, prison-of-war
As close as many people would get to being inside a court – until the website was launched. AFP
Within China’s notoriously flawed legal system somebody is actually trying to usher in a bit of transparency. Now you can boot up your laptop or turn on your smartphone and take a peek inside proceedings. Continue reading
Stephen McDonell: When China began streaming trials online已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, online, Stephen McDonell, trial
Wives of Chinese human rights lawyers detained in a 2015 crackdown wearing the names of their husbands after filing complaints at the Supreme People’s Procuratorate in Beijing, July 4, 2016.
The relatives of several prominent human rights lawyers detained since July 2015 are once more petitioning the Chinese government over the continuing persecution of their families ahead of National Day celebrations on Saturday. Continue reading
Lawyers’ Wives Petition Beijing Over Persecution Ahead of National Day已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion
From Oct. 1, Chinese police will be empowered to use information from a person’s social media contacts list, including friends circles on popular smartphone chat apps, as evidence in criminal investigations. Public Domain
He told RFA in an interview on Friday that he expects the new rules to be used to police speech, rather than to support investigations into criminal actions. Continue reading
China Gives Police Powers to Monitor Social Media Friends, Chat Groups已关闭评论
Posted in Culture, Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, police, rumor-mongering, Social Media
25 September, 2016 – More than 200 writers and PEN members will gather this week in the city of Ourense, Spain for the 82nd PEN InternationalCongress hosted by Galician PEN. Writers and journalists participating at the event include Russian-American writer Masha Gessen, Turkish journalist and PEN Main Case Can Dündar as well as Galician writers Manuel Rivas and Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín, Almudena Grandes, , Nélida Piñon, Claudia Piñero, Ma Thida, Andrei Kurkov, Beatrice Lamwaka and many more. Continue reading
Writers from across the globe gather in the city of Ourense, Galicia for the 82nd PEN Congress已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News
Tagged Congress, Galicia, Jennifer Clement, Luís González Tosar, Ourense, PEN, Spain
Chinese democracy activist Qin Yongmin and wife Zhao Suli are shown in a photo from October 2013. Photo courtesy of rosechina.net
Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan once more prolonged the pretrial detention of a veteran democracy activist for subversion on Thursday amid growing concerns over the safety of his ‘disappeared’ wife. Continue reading
China Postpones Activist’s Subversion Trial, Wife Still Missing已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion, Subversion
Tagged disappearance, Harry Wu, QIN YONGMIN, Subversion, trail, wife, Zhao Suli
Human rights defender Xia Lin, in undated file photo. Public domain.
A court in the Chinese capital on Thursday handed down a 12-year prison sentence to a prominent rights lawyer after finding him guilty of “fraud,” in a move slammed by rights groups as political persecution. Continue reading
