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China detains scholar, bans books in crackdown on moderate voices

BY SUI-LEE WEE AND MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN

BEIJING Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:36am EDT

Oct 13 (Reuters) – China has detained a prominent scholar who helped blind dissident Chen Guangcheng flee to the United States two years ago and has banned books by eight writers in an escalating crackdown on dissent. Continue reading

China Detains Legal Activist Guo Yushan

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By JOSH CHIN CONNECT
Oct. 12, 2014 3:43 a.m. ET

Authorities in Beijing have criminally detained Guo Yushan, Continue reading

Guo Yushan:Civil Disobedience in Sodom – A Letter to Xu Zhiyong

Published: August 10, 2013

That government, powerful as it was, didn’t scare me into doing anything unjust.

— Ascribed to Socrates by Plato in The Apology

Zhiyong,

Congratulations for having been put in jail.

I have been worrying that, if they leave you free after arresting so many of your friends in the New Citizens’ Movement, how viciously they would have put you in an unjust position. Continue reading

Chinese Writer, Tackling Tiananmen, Wields ‘Power to Offend’

OCT. 10, 2014

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“When I talk with friends, I reminisce about the ’80s, when everything was not so tainted by the pressure of money, when poets didn’t abandon their work.” — SHENG KEYI Credit Adam Dean for The New York Times
The Saturday Profile

By JANE PERLEZ

BEIJING — WHEN her village was still lush with lotus plants, and a Continue reading

Under Different Umbrellas-How Hong Kong’s Protestors Divided Mainlanders’ Minds

ZHANG XIAORAN 10.03.14

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A pro-democracy protester yells out in Hong Kong’s Mongkok neighborhood, October 3, 2014. Thousands of pro-democracy supporters continue to occupy the streets of Hong Kong’s financial district. Continue reading

Poetry reading for Hong Kong protesters prompts detentions in Beijing

PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 08 October, 2014, 5:34pm

UPDATED : Wednesday, 08 October, 2014, 5:57pm
Patrick Boehler
[email protected]

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A road Continue reading

Opinion: China relies on old tricks to control coverage of Hong Kong protests

By Doug Young, special to CNN

October 7, 2014 — Updated 0224 GMT (1024 HKT)

141008070042-01-hong-kong-1008-horizontal-galleryA pro-democracy protester sleeps on a street in the Continue reading

Hong Kong: Protect Rights to Peaceful Protest-End Use of Excessive Force; Investigate Alleged Violence, Sexual Assault

Riot police fire teargas to disperse protesters after thousands of demonstrators blocked the main street to the financial Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong KongOCTOBER 6, 2014 Continue reading