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China Jails Author in Jiangxi Over ‘Brainwashing’ Book

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Author and filmmaker Fu Zhibin is shown in an undated photo.
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Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi on Friday handed a one year and 10 month jail term to an outspoken author and Internet commentator on charges of “running an illegal business,” his lawyer said.

Fu Zhibin, 51, was handed the sentence by the Qingshanhu District People’s Court in the provincial capital Nanchang after he published a book about brainwashing that was Continue reading →

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Jailed Chinese Rights Activist Appeals ‘Illegal’ And ‘Unjust’ Sentence

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2015-12-03

image (7)Guo Feixiong (R) during a gathering with Gao Zhisheng (L) in Beijing, Jan. 6, 2006.
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A prominent Chinese rights activist jailed for six years by a court in the southern city of Guangzhou last week has filed a formal appeal, saying the judgment against him is “illegal and runs counter to natural justice.”

Yang Maodong, better known by his pseudonym Guo Feixiong, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order” and “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” at a hearing in the provincial capital Guangzhou along with two co-defendants on Friday.

Fellow activists Liu Yuandong and Sun Desheng were also jailed by Continue reading →

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Dissident Chinese Lawyer ‘Incommunicado’ After Online Anger Over Activist’s Sentence

Posted on 12/03/2015 by | Dissident Chinese Lawyer ‘Incommunicado’ After Online Anger Over Activist’s Sentence已关闭评论

2015-12-02

e0fc87e8-65f8-441a-9df8-5a751b378bacGao Zhisheng during an interview at his office in Beijing, in a file photo.
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UPDATED at 1:50 p.m. EST on 2015-12-02

Dissident rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who remains under house arrest since his release from prison in August 2014, has ‘disappeared’ once more, his friends and family told RFA.

Gao, who is still denied any freedom of movement and access to much-needed medical treatment, lost contact with the outside world after he spoke out against the jailing of a fellow rights lawyer in the southern city of Guangzhou, Gao’s wife Geng He told RFA.

“I called Gao Zhisheng’s older brother last night but he was mumbling with Continue reading →

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Amid Smog Wave, an Artist Molds a Potent Symbol of Beijing’s Pollution

Posted on 12/02/2015 by | Amid Smog Wave, an Artist Molds a Potent Symbol of Beijing’s Pollution已关闭评论

02chinabrick-01-articleLargeBy CHRIS BUCKLEY and ADAM WU December 2, 2015

The artist “Brother Nut” vacuuming the dust near the Beijing National Stadium on Nov. 15, Day 87 of his project to turn the city’s pollution into a tangible brick.
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Beijing has been swamped for days in a beige-gray miasma of smog, bringing coughs and rasping, hospitals crowded from respiratory ailments, a midday sky so dim that it Continue reading →

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China Says It Has Detained 2 Dissidents Sent Back by Thailand

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By CHRIS BUCKLEY November 29, 2015

BEIJING — The Chinese government confirmed that it had detained two dissidents who had been living in Thailand and had been given United Nations recognition as refugees, a state-run newspaper reported on Thursday.

The Thai police handed the two Chinese men, Jiang Yefei and Dong Guanping, to the Chinese police this month, although the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had arranged for their resettlement to another country, human rights groups said last week.

Until Thursday, the Chinese government had been muted about the case, Continue reading →

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Chinese Rights Advocate Known as Guo Feixiong Convicted of Unexpected New Charge

Posted on 11/30/2015 by | Chinese Rights Advocate Known as Guo Feixiong Convicted of Unexpected New Charge已关闭评论

By CHRIS BUCKLEY NOV. 27, 2015
28china-master180Yang Maodong, a veteran protester better known by his pen name, Guo Feixiong. Credit Zhang Qing

BEIJING — Yang Maodong, a hardened veteran of political protest in southern China, knew he had virtually no hope of winning his freedom on Friday when he was brought into a courtroom to face a judge’s verdict on charges that he had disturbed public order.

Chinese judges, after all, convict and imprison indicted dissidents with metronomic consistency, reflecting the ruling Communist Party’s control of the courts.

Still, Mr. Yang — a human rights campaigner better Continue reading →

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Guo Baosheng: Is Death Through Maltreatment Becoming Routine for Chinese Political Prisoners?

Posted on 11/29/2015 by | Guo Baosheng: Is Death Through Maltreatment Becoming Routine for Chinese Political Prisoners?已关闭评论

Published: November 17, 2015

China claims that it doesn’t have any political prisoners, but in a broad sense all of those who have been jailed or imprisoned for challenging the Chinese Communist Party on behalf of human rights or political justice ought to be considered China’s political prisoners. Before the policy of “reform and opening up” in 1979, counterrevolutionaries and other political prisoners were put under strict guard and treated worse than other criminals, and it was common in those days Continue reading →

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Tibetans Fight to Salvage Fading Culture in China

Posted on 11/28/2015 by | Tibetans Fight to Salvage Fading Culture in China已关闭评论

By EDWARD WONG NOV. 28, 2015

YUSHU, China — When officials forced an informal school run by monks near here to stop offering language classes for laypeople, Tashi Wangchuk looked for a place where his two teenage nieces could continue studying Tibetan.

To his surprise, he could not find one, even though nearly everyone living in this market town on the Tibetan plateau here is Tibetan.

Officials had also ordered other monasteries and a private school in the area not to teach the language to laypeople. And public schools had dropped true bilingual education Continue reading →

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