Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A817-O230
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A817-O230
Release Date: May 24, 2014
发布日：2014年5月24日
Topic: Please Attend the Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the June 4 Massacre in Front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC Next Saturday on May 31, 2014 Continue reading
published: May 24, 2014
ZHANG JIALONG AND SECRETARY KERRY ON FEBRUARY 15, 2014.
On May 20th, I was notified by the department head at Tencent that I was being suspended, citing radical expressions I made in my meeting with the Continue reading
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 25 May, 2014, 10:40am
UPDATED : Sunday, 25 May, 2014, 10:40am
Agence France-Presse in Beijing
Online activist and blogger Zhang Continue reading
Chinese blogger ‘fired’ after John Kerry meeting已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged censorship, Internet Freedom, Zhang Jialong
2014-05-23
An undated file photo of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
Eyepress News
Two prominent jailed Chinese dissidents will be presented with an award by a U.S.-based non-government group to mark the 25th anniversary of the bloody Continue reading
US Group To Honor Two Jailed Chinese Dissidents已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo
Tagged Democracy Award, Liu Xiaobo, NED, Xu Zhiyong
2014-05-20
Tiananmen Mothers founding member Ding Zilin in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
Chinese authorities have detained or placed under close surveillance the Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Ding Zilin, June 4th, Liu Di, Tiananmen
Posted on May 24, 2014 by Maura Cunningham
As the June Fourth anniversary grows closer, security measures in China continue to tighten. The anniversary’s approach has also coincided with a spate of terrorist acts in China’s western region of Xinjiang, where explosive devices detonated in a market on Thursday morning killed 31 people and injured nearly 100 more. In Shanghai, a visit by Russian president Vladimir Continue reading
23 May 2014
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned that eight people have been charged and several media outlets forced to shut down without cause after a crackdown organised by the Central Propaganda Department and government Continue reading
Eight charged after nationwide media crackdown in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Free Expression, Press Freedom
Damian Barr
Posted: 04/30/2014 12:02 pm EDT Updated: 04/30/2014 12:59 pm EDT
Fiction is the willing suspension of disbelief–the reader knows they’re being kidded. The novelist’s job is to make them forget this. With memoir, the reader needs to believe you’re telling the truth. As a child I was told nobody would believe me so I pretended to be Continue reading
