2015-06-29
Student activist Joshua Wong speaks outside the Wanchai police station in Hong Kong, Jan. 16, 2015.
AFP
Umbrella Movement student leader Joshua Wong and his girlfriend were assaulted on the city’s streets by an unknown assailant on Monday, ahead of a planned mass demonstration to mark the return of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule.
Wong, who rose to prominence during last year’s Occupy Central Continue reading
Hong Kong Student Leader, Girlfriend Attacked on Mong Kok Street已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Joshua Wong, Occupy Central movement
2015-06-29
Human rights activists show their support for free speech activist Wu Gan, known online by his nickname “The Butcher,” who is being detained by police in southeastern China’s Fujian province, June 23, 2015.
(Photo courtesy of activists)
The detention of at least four contributors to a rights website based in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan in recent weeks is indicative of Continue reading
Detentions Highlight Clampdown on China’s Citizen Journalists已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, Writers in Prison
Tagged Citizen Journalists, Tufu Wu Gan
By ALAN WONG June 26, 2015
On the morning of June 18, the second day of a legislative debate over how Hong Kong would pick its next leader, Christopher Chung was at ease, even high-spirited.
“This is fun!” Mr. Chung, a member of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, wrote in a group chat among lawmakers on WhatsApp. Continue reading
Leaked Messages Reveal Behind-the-Scenes Maneuvers During Hong Kong Election Vote已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
By Wang Yaqiu, published: June 4, 2015
Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波)
LIU XIAOBO IN 1989, SECOND FROM RIGHT.
In the spring of 1989, Dr. Liu Xiaobo left Columbia University where he was a visiting scholar and went back to Beijing to take part in the democracy movement. In Tiananmen Square, he became a leader and a mentor, drafting open letters, giving speeches and leading a hunger strike. Continue reading
The Torchbearers – Participants in the 1989 Democracy Movement Who Are Currently in Prison已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged June 4th, Liu Xiaobo, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
By Liao Yiwu, translated by Cindy Carter, published: May 24, 2015
My friend Chen Yunfei (陈云飞) has never been of a serious disposition; his mode of dress is, if anything, even less serious. One year on June 4th, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, he was clad from the waist up in a suit and tie, and from the waist down in a pair of short Continue reading
Liao Yiwu: Tamer of Beasts, Tamer of Despots已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Chen Yunfei, June 4th, Liao Yiwu, Tiananmen
2015-06-25
Chai Huiqun during a reporting assignment in an undated photo.
(Photo courtesy of Chai Huiqun)
A journalist for a cutting-edge newspaper is waging a Continue reading
Southern Weekend Journalist Sues Chinese Doctors’ Association Over ‘Fake Report’ Claim已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Chai Huiqun, Journalist, Southern Weekend
2015
-06-25
Authorities in the central province of Hunan have prevented a prominent poet from leaving the country, saying he isn’t obedient enough to the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
Liang Taiping, who lives in the Hunan provincial capital Changsha, Continue reading
China Slaps Travel Ban on Nuclear Researcher-Turned-Poet Activist已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Liang Taiping, Poet
Translated by Matthew Robertson, June 2, 2015
“What we need to grasp is that the existence of a political system that is so perverse in its reason, and so unfair and unjust to its subjects, is an open taunt to the conscience and sense of justice of humanity. The international rise of that system, too, is perforce a threat to freedom and world peace.”
REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR, THIS PHOTO IS FROM A PERSONAL COLLECTION. HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/ZHOUFENGSUO/STATUS/602473738148257794
Twenty-six years ago in China, Continue reading
Hu Ping: How the Tiananmen Massacre Changed China, and the World已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
