By Tom Phillips
Friday 15 April 2016 07.39 BST
Ge Yongxi, a known defender of activists and church leaders, taken into custody after posting messages on WeChat account
Ge Yongxi was taken from his home by five plain-clothes police officers, according to his lawyer and activists. Photograph: Facebook
A well-known Chinese civil rights lawyer has been taken into police custody after sharing information about the Panama Papers on social media, human rights groups have said. Continue reading
Panama Papers: China detains lawyer after he shares details of leaders online已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, Ge Yongxi, Lawyer, Panama Papers, WeChat
A copy of the decision from the Beijing municipal bureau of justice ordering the cancellation of Pu Zhiqiang’s lawyer’s license, April 13, 2016. Photo courtesy of a lawyer
Authorities in the Chinese capital have stripped prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang of his license to practice following his conviction over a series of tweets on social media, his lawyer said on Thursday. Continue reading
China Strips Top Human Rights Lawyer of License to Practice已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged incitement to ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination, Lawyer, license, Pu Zhiqiang
Identity documents from the Panama Papers. Clockwise from top left: Patrick Henri Devillers, Jia Liqing, Hu Dehua, Deng Jiagui and Li Xiaolin.
China’s Internet censors deleted a favorable blog post analyzing the links between relatives of the country’s president, Xi Jinping, and papers leaked from the Panama-based Mossack Fonseca law firm. Continue reading
China Issues, Deletes Article Defending President Over Panama Papers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged 12th-Century, censorship, Mossack Fonseca, offshore shell companies, Panama Papers, Xi Jinping
12 April 2016
Update #4 to RAN 09/14
PEN International is deeply concerned for the health of veteran journalist Gao Yu following reports that she was hospitalised after the Beijing Municipal Bureau of City Administration and Law Enforcement identified her garden for destruction on 31 March 2016. Gao Yu remains in hospital; her condition has now stabilised. PEN International calls on the Chinese authorities to stop harassing Gao Yu and to approve her application to be granted leave to travel to Germany for medical treatment. Continue reading
China: Continued harassment of veteran journalist Gao Yu (f); health concerns已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, RAN About Chinese
China’s President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrive in Moscow on March 22, 2013.
A writer in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has been locked up for five days by police for criticizing China’s first lady, his lawyer said on Friday. Continue reading
China Jails Writer For Five Days Over Comments About First Lady已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged detention, Peng Liyuan, Tian You, Xi Jinping
AFP, April 9, 2016, 12:01 am TWN
BEIJING — Mainland China on Friday sentenced an activist who supported pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong to four and a half years in jail, his lawyer told AFP as mainland leader Xi Jinping oversees a wide-ranging crackdown on civil society and free expression. Continue reading
China jails activist who supported HK protests已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion
Tagged Guangzhou, Huang Jingyi, inciting subversion of the state power, LIANG QINHUI, Master Shengguan, Wang Mo, Wuhan, XU ZHIQIANG
Flier calling for the release of (clockwise from left) Xie Wenfei, Hwang Jingyi, Liang Qinhui, Zhang Shengyu, Wang Mo and Master Shengguan, April 8, 2016. Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Friday handed jail terms of up to four-and-a-half years to four rights activists who publicly supported the 2014 pro-democracy Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong. Continue reading
China Jails Four Supporters of Hong Kong Democracy Movement已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Internet Freedom, Subversion
Tagged conviction, Guangzhou, Hwang Jingyi, inciting subversion of the state power, LIANG QINHUI, Master Shengguan, sentence, Wang Mo, Wuhan, Xie Wenfei, XU ZHIQIANG, Zhang Shengyu
Identity documents from the Panama Papers. Clockwise from top left: Patrick Henri Devillers, Jia Liqing, Hu Dehua, Deng Jiagui and Li Xiaolin. ICIJ
As more details emerge from the Panama Papers, Chinese censors are fighting to ensure the top-down deletion of information that details how Chinese high-ranking political and financial elites managed and hid their wealth offshore. Continue reading
Censors Shift into Overdrive in an Attempt to Erase the Panama Papers in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, Press Freedom
Tagged censorship, Panama Papers
