2015-10-01
China’s public security ministry is pressing ahead with moves to force more of the country’s 668 million netizens to use their real names and a digital ID card online.
The move is part of a raft of tighter Internet controls enshrined in the draft Cybersecurity Law being debated in China’s parliament, the China Youth Daily newspaper Continue reading
China Mulls Plans For a Digital ID Card to Track Internet Users已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
Dear Members of Parliament,
In October 2015, the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will make an official State Visit to Britain. We, the undersigned, are calling on the UK government to uphold human rights principles and urge China to adhere to international protocols and conventions on human rights and end its gross human rights violations in Tibet, East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and across China.
We ask you, as a member of parliament, to help us hold China to Continue reading
2015-09-30
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ctivist and businessman Huang Yongxiang in undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Chen Keyun.
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have released on ‘bail’ four activists who launched a T-shirt campaign in support of detained human rights lawyers, amid an ongoing crackdown on the country’s embattled legal profession.
Police in Guangdong’s Zengcheng city had detained Liu Yajie Continue reading
Chinese Activists Who Made Lawyer T-Shirts Released on ‘Bail’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
2015-09-29
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang on Tuesday ended the subversion trial of two members of a banned opposition party after both men pleaded not guilty, their lawyers said.
Lu Gengsong and Chen Shuqing, both members of the banned opposition China Democracy Party (CDP), Continue reading
China Tries Two Opposition Party Activists For Subversion已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged CHEN SHUQING, LÜ GENGSONG, Subversion
2015-09-28
Hong Kong protesters commemorate the anniversary of the Occupy Central movement, Sept. 28, 2015.
RFA
One year after thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters used umbrellas to stave off pepper spray and tear gas in clashes with riot police, some 1,000 people rallied outside Continue reading
One Year On, Hong Kong Remembers The Umbrella Movement已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement, Umbrella Movement
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, attends the Sustainable Development Summit 2015, Sept. 26, 2015 at United Nations headquarters.
Saibal Dasgupta, William Ide
Last updated on: September 26, 2015 8:03 AM
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday addresses a United Nations conference on gender equality, an event which has drawn criticism because of his government’s policies that Continue reading
Rights Groups Criticize Xi Participation in UN Women’s Summit已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights Activists, UN, Women, Xi Jinping
2015-09-25
China’s President Xi Jinping met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington Friday to discuss a variety of issues, including human rights, as protesters massed outside, calling on Beijing to end its oppression of minorities and dissidents.
In a joint press conference delivered after the meeting, Obama said the two leaders had held a “frank discussion” on human rights, Continue reading
Obama, Xi Talk Rights as Protesters Demand End to Oppression in China已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights, Obama, Protests, Xi Jinping
2015-09-24
Ken Tsang poses for a photo with an unidentified woman in Hong Kong, Jan. 25, 2015.
Photo provided by Ken Tsang
One year after a week-long student strike kicked off the 79-day Occupy Central pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, activists have slammed a lack of progress over allegations of police brutality, including the beating of a prominent democracy activist filmed by journalists as it happened.
Video footage filmed live at protests last November by local Continue reading
One Year After Occupy Central, Hong Kong Officials Have Yet to Investigate Beating已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
