Peter Dahlin, who worked with Chinese human rights lawyers, had been held on suspicion of endangering state security
Peter Dahlin appearing on China state television after he was taken into custody earlier this month. Photograph: AP
China has released a Swedish human rights activist it had taken into custody earlier this month and accused of being a foreign agent trying to undermine the Communist party, the Swedish foreign ministry has said. Continue reading
China frees Swedish human rights activist已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged bookseller, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, NGO, Peter Dahlin, Release, Swedish
Chinese police patrol Tiananmen Square in Beijing, looking for petitioners, Dec. 4, 2013. AFP
The outlook is bleak for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in China amid an ongoing government crackdown targeting civil society groups, former NGO workers and activists said on Friday. Continue reading
Activists See Bleak Future For China’s NGOs Amid Ongoing Crackdown已关闭评论
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Tagged civil society, confession, Freedom of association, Human Rights, NGO, Peter Dahlin, Swedish
By Afp
China has jailed an activist in its volatile northwestern Xinjiang region for 19 years over online posts criticising the ruling Communist Party and for giving interviews to foreign media, his lawyer said Friday. Continue reading
China jails Xinjiang democracy activist for 19 years: lawyer已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion, Uighur
Tagged sentence, Xinjiang, Zhang Haitao
Nathan VanderKlippe
HONG KONG — The Globe and Mail
Lee Bo had reason to be suspicious when he got a phone call just before 6 p.m. on Dec. 30 from someone who wanted to place an order for 10 copies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The bookseller didn’t know the caller, a potential red flag at a fraught time. Four of Mr. Lee’s colleagues had vanished months earlier, shocking Hong Kong and raising worry that China is abducting people it wants to silence. Continue reading
China extends reach to take Hong Kong’s freedom of speech away已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, disappearance, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lee Bo, Publisher
Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, arrives in Yan’an, Shaanxi province, after the Long March, Oct. 15, 1935. Pigiste/Xinhua/AFP
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has stopped publication of a collection of essays by a well-known historian whose books have never yet been available outside Hong Kong. Continue reading
China Bans New Book by Late Scholar of Communist Party History已关闭评论
Posted in Book Reviews, Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Gao Hua, Mao Zedong
A detained Swedish rights activist has appeared on Chinese state television apparently confessing to breaking the law through his group’s activities.
Peter Dahlin has been held since early January amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists. Continue reading
Swedish activist Peter Dahlin ‘confesses’ on China TV已关闭评论
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Tagged confession, Gui Minhai, Peter Dahlin, TV, Wang Yu
By Editorial Board January 18 at 6:32 PM
Human rights lawyer Wang Yu talks during an interview with Reuters in Beijing in 2014. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
FOR ALL the semblance of a judicial system, with lawyers, judges and prosecutors, China’s courts remain a tool of a party-state that sees itself as above the law. People can be detained for months — they simply disappear — and only later formally charged or tried. In China, detention means being sucked into the vortex of arbitrary rule. Continue reading
China pulls lawyers and activists into a dark zone of fear已关闭评论
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Guan Hu, director of “Mr. Six.” Image via Youtube user: Yitiao Video 一条视频,
Guan Hu’s newest movie resonates with the Cultural Revolution generation, but the film has one fatal flaw. Continue reading
A Look at “Mr. Six”已关闭评论
Posted in Culture, Headlines, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged Cultural Revolution, Guan Hu, movie, Mr. Six, Pu Zhiqiang
