Wing Mui TSOI speaking at PEN International 82nd Congress held in Ourense, Spain, on 28 September, 2016
There once was a famous saying in Hong Kong: A border separates Hong Kong from Mainland China. On both sides of this border are the same people with the same cultural tradition and they belong to same race. But there is a key difference: People on one side can criticize anyone but their government while people on the other side can criticize anyone but their wives. Continue reading
Tsoi Wing-Mui: Causeway Bay Bookstore Incident and Hong Kong’s Press Freedom已关闭评论
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Tagged bookseller, Causeway Bay Bookstore, Hong Kong, publication, Tsoi Wing-Mui, Yao Wentian, YIU MANTIN
Wang Qingying (R) is shown following his release from prison. Photo courtesy of Xi Sen
A rights activist, one of the Guangzhou Three, recently released from prison in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, says he is having trouble returning to normal life, detailing ongoing restrictions on his movements and a lack of income. Wang Qingying, who was sentenced on Jan. 29, 2016 by the Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong’s provincial capital Guangzhou alongside Tang Jingling and Yuan Xinting, spoke to RFA following his release at the end of his two-and-a-half year sentence, most of which was served in pretrial detention: Continue reading
Interview: ‘They Humiliate You, And Treat You Like Animals, Worse Than a Dog’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion
Tagged Guangdong, Inciting Subversion, prison, Tang Jingling, Torture, Wang Qingying, Yuan Xinting
Detained Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang, in undated photo. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener.
Concerns are mounting over the continued detention of three prominent Chinese rights defenders all detained or “disappeared” last month, rights group said. Continue reading
Three Human Rights Defenders Held in Unknown Locations, ‘at Risk of Torture’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Internet Freedom
Tagged disappearance, HUANG QI, Jiang Tianyong, Liu Feiyue
A Beijing court has told journalist Gao Yu that she can continue serving her five-year jail term under a form of house arrest for another year from 26 November but has warned her that she could be sent her back to prison “at any time.”Journalist still under house arrest, cannot receive treatment abroad已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Yu, Health, House Arrest, Journalist
New York, November 28, 2016 – Chinese authorities should immediately release Liu Feiyue, the editor and founder of the human rights news website Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, known in China as Minsheng Guancha, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Liu’s arrest occurred amid increasing efforts by China to silence journalists and bloggers who cover protests and human rights abuses. Continue reading
Editor of human rights news website detained in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion
Tagged Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, CPJ, detention, Hubei province, incommunicado, Liu Feiyue, Minsheng Guancha, subverting state power
To Chair Woman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
Mrs. Kaci Kullmann
Former Chairman
Mr. Thorbjorn Jagland
Dear Mrs. Kullmann,
Dear Mr. Jagland,
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mr. Liu Xiaobo is still kept in prison in China, he is serving his 11 years imprisonment and will not be released till 2020. Continue reading
Tienchi Liao: An empty chair for Liu xiaobo on the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged ceremony, empty chair, Germany, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize, Student, Tienchi Liao
Madeleine Thien Photo: Babak Salari
Even during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, China maintained a symphony orchestra at the behest of Mao’s wife. It’s one of the surprising artifacts of history unearthed in Madeleine Thien’s latest novel, “Do Not Say We Have Nothing,” a rich, sprawling tale centered on tragedies that unfold at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music amid the brutal struggles of that era. Continue reading
Te-Ping Chen: Writing China: Madeleine Thien, ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing’已关闭评论
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Canadian, Cultural Revolution, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien, Te-Ping Chen, Tiananmen Square
November 25 marks the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This day was chosen to commemorate the brutal murders of three of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroines of the Dominican Republic. On November 25, 1960, Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal and their driver were stopped on the road by members of the secret police force of the dictator Rafael Trujillo and clubbed to death. Continue reading
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 2016已关闭评论
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Tagged International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Women Writers Committee
