2015-10-21
As Chinese President Xi Jinping clinched investment deals worth some U.S.$30 billion on his state visit to the United Kingdom on Wednesday, rights activists hit out at the British government for going back on its own principles and ignoring the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing crackdown on rights lawyers and ethnic minorities.
“If the U.K. Continue reading
Critics Slam U.K. Government For ‘Selling Out’ to China on Rights已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights, UK, Visit, Xi Jinping
2015-10-19
Southern Metropolis Daily journalist Liu Wei in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi are holding a top investigative journalist on suspicion of “obtaining state secrets,” his newspaper has reported.
China Holds Top Reporter on ‘State Secrets’ Charges已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Journalist, Liu WEi, Press Freedom, Southern Metropolis Daily
An open letter from NGOs to the Prime Minister
Dear Prime Minister,
As organisations that are working to improve human rights in China and around the world, we are writing to you regarding the state visit by President Xi Jinping on October 20-23, 2015. We are deeply concerned with the continuing deterioration of human rights since President Xi Jinping Continue reading
David Cameron should speak out on China human rights in both public and private已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights, UK, Xi Jinping
2015-10-19
A memorial to Zhao Ziyang and his wife at their family residence in Beijing, in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of a family member
Authorities in China’s capital have turned down an application for a burial plot for the ashes of late ousted premier Zhao Ziyang and his wife, as dozens of activists and ordinary Chinese marked his birthday at the weekend.
Well-wishers gathered on Oct. 17 at Zhao’s Beijing residence to remember a Continue reading
Family of Late Ousted Premier Denied Permission For Beijing Burial已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Burial, June 4th, Tiananmen, Zhao Ziyang
OCT. 13, 2015
HONG KONG — On the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a major Chinese television network broadcast a documentary that investigated how Chinese people viewed not only those pivotal events but America itself. One man, referring to the slaughter of thousands of Americans, declared, “What a beautiful job!” Another said, “They should give America more of the same.” And a student standing in Tiananmen Square said he approved of the attacks because the United States was a bully and a hegemon.
Later in the film, the young man in Tiananmen Square went on Continue reading
Murong Xuecun: A Land China Loves and Hates已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Murong Xuecun
Tagged China, MURONG XUECUN, USA
By ALAN WONG OCT. 15, 2015
Ken Tsang talked to reporters in the spot where he said he was beaten by police officers during pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong last year. Credit Philippe Lopez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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HONG KONG — Seven police officers in Hong Kong were charged with assault on Thursday in the beating of a protester during pro-democracy demonstrations last year.
The officers are accused of beating Ken Tsang, Continue reading
Hong Kong Police Officers Are Charged in Beating of Protester已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
By AMY QIN October 16, 2015
Protesters at a rally against Chinese censorship in front of the New York Public Library ahead of a BookExpo America event in May. A large delegation of publishers from China attended the trade gathering as guests of honor.
Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
This may be remembered as the year China’s publishing industry truly went global. In May, a large delegation of Chinese publishers attended BookExpo America, a major Continue reading
American Publishers Take a Stand Against Censorship in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged American Publishers, censorship, China
2015-10-15
Wang Yu (L) and her son Bao Zhuoxuan (R) in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of a family friend.
As the United States expressed concern over the plight of the 16-year-old son of two detained Chinese rights lawyers, the country’s tightly controlled state media Continue reading
Detained Chinese Lawyers’ Son Smuggled to Myanmar by Banned Opposition Party: State Media已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Bao Zhuoxuan, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
