17 September 2015
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama in 2009 failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would, its ex-secretary has said.
Geir Lundestad told the AP news agency that the committee hoped the award would strengthen Mr Obama.
Instead, the decision was met with criticism in the US. Continue reading
Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
Tagged Liu Xiaobo, Nobel, Obama, Peace Prize
2015-09-17
(From L-R) Chinese dissidents Wang Rui, Lu Ning, Su Qianlong, Shi Jian, Wang Rui and Yang Lu Yini prepare to leave Taiwan for Guam in a sailboat, September 2015.
Photo courtesy of Chen Rongli
Last month, three Chinese dissidents from the southwestern megacity of Chongqing escaped by boat to Taiwan, Continue reading
Tue Sep 15, 2015 4:14pm EDT
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses for photographers during a photocall for his exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Britain September 15, 2015. REUTERS/Neil Hall
LONDON | BY MICHAEL RODDY
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses for photographers during a photocall for his exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Britain September 15, 2015.
REUTERS/NEIL HALL
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei has had his run-ins with Continue reading
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
(New York) – On the second anniversary of Chinese activist Cao Shunli’s arbitrary detention in Beijing, United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) member states should press Continue reading
China: Government Should Account for Activist’s Detention, Death UN Human Rights Council Should Press Government for Answers已关闭评论
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Tagged Cao Shunli, Death, Human Rights Council, UN
By ANDREW JACOBS SEPT. 15, 2015
BEIJING — The Chinese authorities on Tuesday released a founder of a research institute who was instrumental in helping the legal activist Chen Guangcheng gain asylum in the United States after he escaped house arrest three years ago.
The founder, Guo Yushan, a scholar who led the Transition Institute, was released from custody along with He Zhengjun, the administrative director of the now-closed institute, Continue reading
China Releases Scholar Who Helped Activist Gain Asylum in U.S.已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Writers in Prison
Tagged Guo Yushan
FILE – Passengers look through windows on a bus painted with an advertisement for Google in Beijing, China.
Reuters
September 10, 2015 10:04 AM
SINGAPORE/BEIJING—Google Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai has made no secret that he wants to get back into China via Google Play, the app store for its Android mobile operating system.
But it’s unlikely to be a smooth ride.
Google largely pulled its services out of China Continue reading
Google Won’t Have Easy Return to China已关闭评论
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Tagged China, Google, Internet Freedom, Return
By PAUL MOZURSEPT. 13, 2015
Joshua Motta, left, Carmen Chang and Matthew Prince in the San Francisco offices of the security start-up CloudFlare. Credit Jason Henry for The New York Times
HONG KONG — It is one of the best-guarded borders in the world, and one of the most time-consuming to cross. Yet in the past few months, a new agreement has let people speed over it billions of times.
The border is the digital one that divides Continue reading
Partnership Boosts Users Over China’s Great Firewall已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, Great Firewall, Internet Freedom
By AMIE TSANG SEPT. 6, 2015
A screen grab of CCTV footage of Wang Xiaolu, a journalist with the Caijing business magazine. He was compelled to confess that he had written a “sensational” and “irresponsible” article on the stock market. Credit Cctv/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
HONG KONG — When the Chinese Ministry of Public Security arrested nearly 200 people at the end of August for “spreading rumors,” one of the most prominent targets was Wang Xiaolu, a reporter for the respected business magazine Caijing.
Mr. Wang was compelled to confess on television before going to trial. Dressed in a green polo shirt and looking downcast, he told viewers of China Central Television, the main state network, Continue reading
Caijing Journalist’s Shaming Signals China’s Growing Control Over News Media已关闭评论
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