By CHRIS BUCKLEY OCT. 23, 2014
HONG KONG — The police in Beijing have formally charged an 81-year-old writer, Tie Liu, for privately publishing the testimony of aged or dead victims of Mao Zedong’s wrath Continue reading
By CHRIS BUCKLEY OCT. 23, 2014
HONG KONG — The police in Beijing have formally charged an 81-year-old writer, Tie Liu, for privately publishing the testimony of aged or dead victims of Mao Zedong’s wrath Continue reading
Beijing Formally Charges Writer Who Published Memoirs of Victims of Mao Era已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Tie Liu
A commentary by Bao Tong
2014-10-24
Wen Yongfen, the mother of jailed dissident Chen Ziming, holds a photo of her cancer-stricken son during a discrete protest in a Beijing park Oct 22, 1995.
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Chen Ziming was arrested in late 1989 for his involvement in the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests Continue reading
Chen Ziming – Veteran Dissident ‘Who Worried About China And Its People’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chen Ziming, June 4th, Tiananmen
October 22, 2014
HRIC has learned that, Chen Shuqing (陈树庆), a core member of the China Democracy Party’s Zhejiang Committee, has been formally arrested. The official charge cannot be confirmed at this Continue reading
Zhejiang Activist Chen Shuqing Formally Arrested已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged CHEN SHUQING
7:30 pm HKT Oct 22, 2014
People take photos during a vigil held to mark the 24th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square, in front of a backdrop of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City (back), in Hong Kong, on June 4, 2013. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
One of the two activists identified as the Continue reading
Tiananmen Protest ‘Black Hand’ Chen Ziming Dies in Beijing已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chen Ziming, June 4th, Tiananmen
President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign is beginning to encompass all forms of thought and expression, even moderate ones, not approved by the ruling party.
By Peter Ford, Staff Writer OCTOBER 18, 2014
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PICUN, CHINA — When she got off school last Thursday, Huang Qiufeng, Continue reading
Sensing subversion, China throws the book at kids’ libraries已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
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Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter sign diplomatic agreements between the United States and China, January 31, 1979
“Today we take another step in the historic Continue reading
theguardian.com, Thursday 16 October 2014 04.37 EDT
Corporation condemns ‘deliberate censorship’ as Chinese official claims foreign media are not reporting protests objectively
China has blocked the BBC website as protests in Hong Kong continue. Photograph: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images Continue reading
China blocks BBC website as Hong Kong tensions rise已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Internet Freedom
Tagged BBC, censorship, China, Democracy, Hong Kong, Internet Freedom, Occupy Central movement
BY JOSEPH W. ESHERICK OCTOBER 15, 2014
It was a hot afternoon in June in the East China city of Jinan. I was returning to my hotel after an afternoon coffee, thinking of the conference I had come to attend and trying to escape the heat on the shady side of the street. My cell phone rang, Continue reading
How I Dealt With China’s Book Censors-ChinaFile One Western author shares his struggle to keep a text true to history.已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Book, censorship, China