State media workers are shown celebrating President Xi Jinping’s media tour in this screen shot from CCTV broadcast, Feb. 19, 2016.
President Xi Jinping’s call for unswerving loyalty from the state media to the ruling Chinese Communist Party, speaks to the president’s ambition to lead a world superpower and echos Beijing’s growing concern over its international image, analysts told RFA’s Chinese services. Continue reading
Xi Jinping Tells Chinese Media to ‘Speak for the Party’已关闭评论
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Government directive: ‘Sino-foreign joint ventures, Sino-foreign cooperative ventures and foreign business units shall not engage in online publishing services’
Only wholly Chinese owned companies will be able to publish online – subject to strict self-censorship Rex Features
China set to ban all foreign media from publishing online已关闭评论
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Tagged Ban, censorship, Media, online, publication
The defense attorney for jailed rights lawyer Li Heping discovered he was relieved of duty when he visited his client in detention, Feb. 18, 2016.
A number of prominent Chinese human rights lawyers being held on suspicion of subversion have allegedly “fired” their defense attorneys, but those familiar with the case said it was the authorities who terminated the defenders. Continue reading
Defense Attorneys For Jailed Chinese Rights Lawyers ‘Fired’已关闭评论
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19 February 2016 – The three year sentence handed down to Tibetan writer, translator and activist, Druklo (pen-name Shokjang), on 17 February 2016 is an appalling violation of free speech, PEN International said today. PEN believes that the charges brought against Shokjang by the intermediate public court in Malho Prefecture (Jainca County), which include instigating a separatist riot in the 2008 Tibetan unrest and writing articles detrimental to social security on social networks, are solely for exercising his right to free speech. PEN International calls for his immediate and unconditional release. Continue reading
18 February 2016, Hermina Wong
Publishing and bookselling associations based in the US and Europe have penned a joint letter to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, urging him to take action on the missing Causeway Bay booksellers. Continue reading
International publishers urge Chief Executive to take action on missing booksellers已关闭评论
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Tagged bookseller, Causeway Bay Books, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lee Bo, Mighty Current, PEN, publishers
An undated publicity shot shows cast and crew during the making of the Hong Kong independent movie “10 Years.” Jevons Au
As Hong Kong struggles to maintain existing freedoms of expression in the face of growing pressure from Beijing, movie houses in the former British colony have mysteriously dropped an independent film depicting a dystopian future for the semiautonomous city in spite of massive success at the box office. Continue reading
Li Aijie, wife of jailed Xinjiang-based rights activist Zhang Haitao, and the couple’s baby in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of Li Aijie
The wife of jailed rights activist Zhang Haitao, a critic of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group, said on Tuesday that she has been left with no income, relying on relatives to feed the couple’s child over Chinese New Year. Continue reading
Wife of Jailed Xinjiang Activist Left With Baby, No Income已关闭评论
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Tagged Li Aijie, Xinjiang, Zhang Haitao
Press Release
9 Feburary 2016
The Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) held its 7th Congress of Membership Assembly at a Google group forum on Internet on 22 Janurary – 09 Feburary 2016. Among ICPC’s 318 members, 162 participated in the Congress. According to the agenda adopted by the Congress, five sessions were held. The Congress adopted an amendment to ICPC’s Rules of Procedure of Membership Assembly, approved the work report and financial report submitted by the Board and elected the new Board in accordance with the ICPC’s Charter. Columnist Mrs. Tienchi Martin-Liao, a former president, has been re-elected the new President.
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