Villagers in China’s flooded northern province of Hebei flee rising waters, in undated photo. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener.
Authorities in the northern Chinese province of Hebei have detained three people for tweeting “false news” to social media after they posted reports that hundreds of people had died in overnight flooding near Xingtai city. Continue reading
China Detains Three For Tweeting About Hebei Flooding Deaths已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, detention, flood, Hebei, Tweet
Political books on display at the Hong Kong book fair, including Mao: The Untold Story, and Gao Zhisheng’s book Stand Up China 2017 (below left)
A book fair in a convention centre in Hong Kong’s Wanchai district. Continue reading
The politics of a martial arts book fair in Hong Kong已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom, Publications
Magazines about Chinese politics are displayed in a bookstore in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong, Jan. 5, 2016. AFP
A court in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Tuesday jailed two veteran journalists from neighboring Hong Kong after they sent their political magazines to subscribers across the internal border in mainland China. Continue reading
Two Hong Kong Journalists Jailed Over Sale of Political Magazines in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, honorary Members, Press Freedom
Tagged Guo Zhongxiao, Hong Kong, Illegal business, Liu Haitao, Multiple Face, New-Way Monthly, pubulisher, Wang Jianmin
Staff of Chinese cutting edge political magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu at a gathering, July 22, 2016. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener.
A court in the Chinese capital has refused to accept a lawsuit filed by the former editors of the cutting-edge political magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu against the arts institute that owns it following a major change of leadership imposed from above. Continue reading
Chinese Court Rejects Lawsuit From Purged Political Magazine已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Beijing, censorship, court, lawsuit, Yanhuang Chunqiu
Prominent jailed rights activist Guo Feixiong has requested a transfer to another prison following more than 70 days of hunger strike and ongoing abuse from cellmates, his sister has said. Continue reading
Jailed Chinese Activist ‘Considers’ Ending Hunger Strike, Requests Transfer已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, honorary Members
Tagged Guo Feixiong, hunger strike, Yang Maodong
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan have formally arrested a blogger who compiled detailed lists of protests and his girlfriend, on public order charges, rights groups said. Continue reading
Protest Blogger, Girlfriend Formally Arrested in China’s Yunnan已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, Press Freedom
Seong -Phil Hong, Chairperson Rapporteur of the Working Group on arbitrary detention during of the 30th regular Session at the Human Rights Council. 14 September 2015. UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferr
In a recently released opinion, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) found that China has arbitrarily deprived Sandy Phan-Gillis, an American citizen, of liberty because she has been denied access to counsel and not been brought before a judicial authority. See WGAD, Communication Concerning Phan (Sandy) Phan-Gillis, Opinion No. 12/2016 (People’s Republic of China), 3 June 2015, UN Doc. A/HRC/WGAD/2016. Continue reading
UN Working Group Finds China Is Arbitrarily Detaining American Citizen已关闭评论
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Tagged Arbitrary Detention, Phan Phan-Gillis, state secret, UN
Activists in Hong Kong demonstrate for the release of rights lawyers detained on the Chinese mainland, Aug. 25, 2015. RFA
Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin will prosecute the head of a top Beijing law firm and three legal activists on charges of “subverting state power,” the state prosecutor in Tianjin said on an official blog on Friday. Continue reading
China Set to Prosecute Top Rights Lawyer, Three Activists for Subversion已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion
Tagged Hu Shigen, Indictment, Lawyer, Subversion, Tianjin
