Guo Yushan Was Instrumental in the Escape of Dissident Chen Guangcheng in 2012
By JOSH CHIN CONNECT
Oct. 12, 2014 3:43 a.m. ET
Authorities in Beijing have criminally detained Guo Yushan, Continue reading
Guo Yushan Was Instrumental in the Escape of Dissident Chen Guangcheng in 2012
By JOSH CHIN CONNECT
Oct. 12, 2014 3:43 a.m. ET
Authorities in Beijing have criminally detained Guo Yushan, Continue reading
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
Guo Yushan:Civil Disobedience in Sodom – A Letter to Xu Zhiyong已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Guo Yushan, Xu Zhiyong
October 11, 2014
Yesterday, the Supreme People’s Court issued a document with the – predictably convoluted – title “Supreme People’s Court Regulations concerning Some Questions of Applicable Law in Handing Civil Dispute Cases involving the Use of Information Networks to Harm Personal Rights and Interests”. !–more–>This document provides Continue reading
Parsing the New Internet Rules of China’s Supreme Court已关闭评论
Posted in Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
OCT. 10, 2014
“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
Chinese Writer, Tackling Tiananmen, Wields ‘Power to Offend’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Sheng Keyi, Tiananmen
ZHANG XIAORAN 10.03.14
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
Under Different Umbrellas-How Hong Kong’s Protestors Divided Mainlanders’ Minds已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged China, Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 08 October, 2014, 5:34pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 08 October, 2014, 5:57pm
Patrick Boehler
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A road Continue reading
Poetry reading for Hong Kong protesters prompts detentions in Beijing已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Press Freedom
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement, Songzhuang, Wang Zang
By Aimee Hamilton / 6 October, 2014
From left to right: Harvey Tomlinson from MakeDo Publishing, Chen Xiwo and translator, Nicky Harman at English PEN. (Photo: Aimée Hamilton)
Chen Xiwo, described Continue reading
By Doug Young, special to CNN
October 7, 2014 — Updated 0224 GMT (1024 HKT)
A pro-democracy protester sleeps on a street in the Continue reading
Opinion: China relies on old tricks to control coverage of Hong Kong protests已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement