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EU urged to sanction CCTV for broadcasting journalist’s forced confession Police cite Xiang Nanfu’s “confession” as a reason for freeing him on parole

08.20.2014

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While welcoming freelance journalist Xiang Nanfu’s release, Continue reading

Chinese police question rights lawyer about meeting with former U.S. envoy

BY SUI-LEE WEE

BEIJING Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:31pm BST

Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in BeijingChinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in Beijing in this July 20, 2012 picture.
CREDIT: REUTERS/PETAR KUJUNDZIC

(Reuters) – Chinese police have Continue reading

Mo Zhixu: The Chinese Internet is Entering into a Period of Increasing Government Control

2014-08-15

Recently, the National Office of Online Information promulgated ten regulations concerning WeChat (“WeChat 10 Regulations”). There have already been many discussions about it. Among them, Continue reading

Denying Historians: China’s Archives Increasingly Off-Bounds

5:25 am HKT Aug 19, 2014 CULTURE

By Maura Cunningham

BN-ED647_archiv_G_20140818071750The original document of Japanese war criminals in Jinan, Continue reading

Writing China: James Jiann Hua To, ‘Qiaowu: Extra-Territorial Policies for the Overseas Chinese’

12:01 am HKT Aug 16, 2014

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Tourists read Chinese newspapers on Continue reading

THE PEKING MAN DELUSION

Monday, September 23, 2013 | BY: YUAN REN

While waves were sent thrashing through the intellectual world in 1987 as DNA evidence hailed a woman Continue reading

China’s Troubled Media

Posted: August 11, 2014 in media

Over the past few months, those who thought the state of Chinese journalism couldn’t possibly get any worse have sadly been proven wrong. Continue reading

‘While the Gods Were Sleeping’

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Posted August 14th, 2014 by Tasja Dorkofikis & filed under Press.

To commemorate the centenary of The Great War, PEN Atlas Continue reading