Even the renowned rights lawyer Pu Zhiquiang has been caught up in the arrests since 2012. But the democratic push won’t stop
Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang
Pu Zhiqiang speaking to reporters at the Chongqing higher people’s court in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality, 28 December 2012. Photograph: Yongping Xu/EPA Continue reading
Teng Biao: What will this crackdown on activists do to China’s nascent civil society?已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights Defender, Teng Biao
JAN. 16, 2015
HONG KONG — A Chinese government official I know was put under shuanggui, the secretive system of internal Communist Party investigation in which victims are detained, questioned without counsel and sometimes tortured. Continue reading
Murong Xuecun:Xi’s Selective Punishment已关闭评论
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By CHRIS BUCKLEY and ALAN WONG JANUARY 23, 2015 7:01 AM January 23, 2015 7:01 am
Kevin Lau Chun-to in January 2014, after his dismissal as editor of the Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao.Credit Associated Press
Since the newspaper editor Kevin Lau Chun-to was attacked with a cleaver last year and left bleeding on a Hong Kong street, he has embodied fears that the city’s long Continue reading
Hong Kong Editor, Attacked Last Year, Expresses Hope for Future of News Media已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Press Freedom
Published: January 20, 2015
PU ZHIQIANG (浦志强). PHOTO FROM ONLINE.
On January 11, the Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强) spent his fiftieth birthday behind bars. No one knows what was going through the mind of this famous and very vocal lawyer Continue reading
Chang Ping:The Looming Shadow of the Case against Pu Zhiqiang已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Internet Freedom, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang
Published: January 18, 2015
Zhang Miao
Three months after friend and assistant Zhang Miao (張淼) was arrested, Continue reading
Chang Ping：Zhang Miao Receives “Treatment Reserved for Chinese Citizens”已关闭评论
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Tagged Zhang Miao
January 16, 2015 10:55 PM
Posted By: Samuel Wade
Asia Society’s Eric Fish talks to five current and former news assistants for foreign media in China about the recently reported detention of their counterpart at Die Zeit, Zhang Miao. Continue reading
Chinese News Assistants React to Colleague’s Arrest已关闭评论
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Tagged News Assistants, Zhang Miao
By China Change, published: January 12, 2015
Shortly before June 4th, 2014, ten in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, were arrested for holding a public memorial for Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳). Seven of them have since been released, Continue reading
Prominent 1989ers Voice Support for Yu Shiwen, Detained for Commemorating the Tiananmen Movement已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Tiananmen, Yu Shiwen, Zhao Ziyang
Published: January 11, 2015
GUO YUSHAN (郭玉闪)
I no longer have the desire to argue about the treatment of Guo Yushan and his colleagues from a legal perspective. We know that “illegal business practices” was the charge for which Guo was formally arrested on December 6th, Continue reading
Xiao Shu：In China, to Destroy Lives Is Legal, but to Save Them Is Not已关闭评论
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Tagged Guo Yushan, Xiao Shu
