2015-05-13
Geng He, wife of China’s leading human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, speaks at a press conference in Washington, Sept. 9, 2014.
RFA
Measures introduced by China over the past six years to curb torture and mistreatment of criminal detainees have not done enough to reduce abuses, Continue reading
China Reforms to Curb Torture Don’t Go Far Enough-Human Rights Watch已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged China, Human Rights Watch, Torture
2015-05-11
Liu Jiacai was initially detained by police in Hubei’s Yichang city on Aug. 3, 2013.
RFA
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei on Monday handed a five-year jail term Continue reading
China Jails Citizen Activist For Five Years on Subversion Charge已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Liu Jiacai, New Citizens' Movement, Subversion
2015-05-11
Hong Kong citizens attend a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown on June 4, 2014.
RFA
Hong Kong activists running a museum dedicated to the 1989 student-led protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Continue reading
Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Massacre Museum Under Pressure: Activists已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
U.S. Republican Representative Chris Smith of New Jersey speaks to VOA after a U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing in Washington, April 30, 2015. (M. Lipin/VOA)
Michael Lipin
May 09, 2015 6:36 PM
A U.S. lawmaker is encouraging Hong Kong legislators to veto electoral rules proposed by Beijing.
In a recent interview with VOA, New Jersey Republican Representative Chris Smith Continue reading
US Lawmaker Urges Rejection of Proposed Hong Kong Voting Rules已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
2015-05-07
Eleven citizens of Shandong who lost family members in 1989 meet to commemorate the 26th Anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown in late April.
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener
Twenty-six years after the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) suppressed the Chinese student-led democracy protests of 1989 with tanks and machine guns, Continue reading
‘We Want The Truth To Be Told’: Tiananmen Mothers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Tiananmen, Tiananmen Mothers
2015-05-06
Artist Sun Kai during recent RFA interview.
RFA
A Chinese artist who was portraying the lives of 100 participants in the student-led 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing has abandoned the project in the face of growing pressure from the Continue reading
Chinese Artist ‘Warned Off’ 1989 Tiananmen Activist Photo Project已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
2015-05-06
Gao Zhisheng during an interview at his of
fice in Beijing, in a file photo.
AFP
Top Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng remains effectively under house arrest, Continue reading
Chinese Rights Lawyer Marks Ten Months Under House Arrest已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Zhisheng, Human Rights Lawyer
2015-05-05
Netizens at an Internet cafe in China’s Zhejiang province, Nov. 2, 2012.
AFP
China’s 642 million Internet users are gradually abandoning the once-popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo and similar sites, as several years of crippling censorship is revealed in recent research, Continue reading
Chinese Netizens Migrate Away From Closely Censored Weibo Platforms已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
