Family members and lawyers of detained lawyers and their colleagues gather after another attempt to seek answers about China’s biggest-ever crackdown on human rights lawyers in Tianjin, Jan. 8, 2016. AFP
Prominent rights activists and campaigners have called on democratic members of the United Nations to block China’s re-election on Friday for another two-year term on its Human Rights Council. Continue reading
Rights Groups Slam China’s Record Ahead of U.N. Council Vote已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Human Rights Council, United Nations
By Tim Masters
Paul Beatty with the Duchess of Cornwall. PA
Paul Beatty has become the first US author to win the Man Booker Prize with his racial satire The Sellout.
His novel tells the story of a young black man who tries to reinstate slavery and racial segregation in a suburb of Los Angeles. Continue reading
Man Booker Prize: Paul Beatty becomes first US winner for The Sellout已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, literature
Tagged Man Booker Prize, Paul Beatty, The Sellout
By Nigel Hunt, CBC News Posted: Oct 24, 2016 2:50 PM ETLast Updated: Oct 25, 2016 8:29 AM ET
‘I feel like I’ve won the lottery of lotteries already,’ said Booker-nominated Canadian author Madeleine Thien, seen greeting a fan at the 2016 Vancouver Writers Festival. Thien’s latest novel is also nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Awards, the Giller Prize and other honours. (CBC)
Madeleine Thien, Canada’s newest literary star, a favourite to win prestigious Man Booker Prize已关闭评论
Posted in Calture Revolution, literature
Tagged Canada, Governor General's Award, Madeleine Thien, Nigel Hunt
Food for thought? What comes out of China’s Communist Party plenums is often limited.
China’s top Communist party officials are in Beijing for a four-day, behind-closed-doors meeting this week.
The plenum kicks off a big year for China, building up to next year’s party congress, a twice-a-decade event. Continue reading
Karishma Vaswani: China plenum: Looking for clues on China’s economy已关闭评论
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Tagged Corruption, economy, Karishma Vaswani, plenum, Xi Jinping
Robert W. McChesney, Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet against Democracy (New York: New Press, 2013), 299 pages, $27.95, hardcover. Continue reading
Daniel Auerbach and Brett Clark: The Internet and Monopoly Capitalism已关闭评论
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Brett Clark, Daniel Auerbach, internet, Monopoly Capitalism, Robert W. McChesney
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Czech Republic’s President Milos Zeman addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S. September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
PRAGUE Czech President Milos Zeman has decided against awarding a state medal to a Holocaust survivor after the man’s nephew, a Czech government minister, met exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama against the president’s wishes, the minister said on Friday. Continue reading
Czech president accused of scrapping Holocaust survivor medal due to Dalai Lama已关闭评论
Tagged Czech, Dalai Lama, Daniel Herman, Milos Zeman, Václav Havel
PEN International has for many years expressed concern about serious and sweeping restrictions on freedom of expression in China, including through resolutions adopted at its annual Congresses, most recently at its 81st World Congress in October 2015. Continue reading
PEN INTERNATIONAL RESOLUTION ON THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA已关闭评论
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Tagged PEN International Congress, resolution
Update #9 to RAN 02/13
20 October 2016 – PEN International is deeply concerned by news reports, as yet unconfirmed, that the Saudi government may resume the lashing punishment against blogger Raif Badawi, currently serving a 10-year sentence in Saudi Arabia. The news was announced in a statement by The Raif Badawi Foundation, which said it had received the confirmation from the same source that had notified his family about the first 50 of 1,000 lashes, which Badawi was given on 9 January, 2015. After his first flogging, Badawi’s remaining 950 lashes were postponed indefinitely on medical grounds. Continue reading
Saudi Arabia must not flog Raif Badawi for blogging已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, PEN International News
Tagged flog, Raif Badawi, Saudi Arabia
