BY SUI-LEE WEE AND MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN
BEIJING Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:00am EST
Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in Beijing in this July 20, 2012 picture.
CREDIT: REUTERS/PETAR KUJUNDZIC
(Reuters) – Chinese prosecutors could upgrade the charges against a Continue reading
Prominent China rights lawyer could face harsher charges: attorney已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
Human rights fears grow as Gao Yu, 70, faces life sentence, while jailed Uighur scholar’s appeal is turned down
Chinese journalist Gao Yu in 2012. State media have said she is accused of leaking an internal Communist party document to foreigners. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP
Tania Branigan in Beijing
Friday 21 November 2014 09.30 EST
China has tried a veteran journalist for revealing state secrets and Continue reading
Chinese journalist charged with handing over state secrets已关闭评论
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Activist attorney Pu Zhiqiang is accused of a total of four offences as investigators hand his case to prosecutors in next step towards trial
PUBLISHED : Friday, 21 November, 2014, 3:08am UPDATED : Friday, 21 November, 2014, 9:34am
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Beijing police had handed over the case of human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang to Continue reading
Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang faces more charges as police hand case to prosecutors已关闭评论
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Reporter Gao faces charges of revealing state secrets while Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s life sentence appeal rejected.
Last updated: 21 Nov 2014 08:55
Chinese authorities have put on trial an outspoken journalist accused of revealing state secrets and rejected an appeal by Continue reading
Chinese activist and journalist go on trial已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Yu, Ilham Tohti
Gao Yu, an outspoken liberal journalist, denies charges as she goes on trial in Beijing
Gao Yu was arrested in April and charged with feeding a secret document to ‘an overseas website’ Photo: AFP
Malcolm Moore By Malcolm Moore, Beijing10:09AM GMT 21 Nov 2014
A prominent liberal Chinese journalist has denied that she “leaked state secrets” during a four-hour trial in Beijing. Continue reading
Chinese journalist Gao Yu faces life sentence for leaking state secrets已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
MAY 25, 2014
Evan Osnos writes of the imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo, whose picture is being carried by Chinese protesters. Credit Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Evan Osnos appears to be almost as entrepreneurial, intrepid and creative as the strivers whose linked portraits Continue reading
Striving for Wealth and Truth in China, in Face of Monolithic Government-‘Age of Ambition’ and ‘Leftover Women’ Gauge Social Upheaval已关闭评论
Posted in Publications, Writers in Prison
Tagged China, Evan Osnos, Liu Xiaobo
By Song Zhibiao, published: November 17, 2014
Editor’s update: Liren Rural Libraries announced its closure on September 18, 2014.
ONE OF THE LIREN LIBRARIES.
The Liren (literally: “cultivating talents”) Rural Libraries, which is devoted to aiding rural students to broaden their reading horizons and expand their learning opportunities, Continue reading
Chinese Government Moves to Limit and Eliminate Public Service NGOs: the Case of Liren Rural Libraries已关闭评论
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Tagged Liren Rural Libraries
Posted November 15th, 2014 by Cat Lucas & filed under Campaigns.
English PEN marks the Day of the Imprisoned Writer by launching Time to Read, a new e-book collection of work by writers at risk and former PEN cases from all over the globe
Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Belarusian Continue reading
English PEN marks the Day of the Imprisoned Writer by launching ‘Time to Read’ e-Book已关闭评论
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Tagged English PEN, Time to Read
