2015-09-24
Ken Tsang poses for a photo with an unidentified woman in Hong Kong, Jan. 25, 2015.
Photo provided by Ken Tsang
One year after a week-long student strike kicked off the 79-day Occupy Central pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, activists have slammed a lack of progress over allegations of police brutality, including the beating of a prominent democracy activist filmed by journalists as it happened.
Video footage filmed live at protests last November by local Continue reading
One Year After Occupy Central, Hong Kong Officials Have Yet to Investigate Beating已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
2015-09-23
An undated photo of Chinese feminist activist Li Tingting, one of five women’s rights activists released in April after a month in detention.
AFP
One of the five Chinese feminists detained for planning an anti-sexual harassment campaign and since released on “bail” said on Tuesday that the authorities Continue reading
23 September 2015
Gao Zhisheng during an interview in 2006Image copyrightAP
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Gao Zhisheng says he was tortured with an electric baton to the face
Prominent Chinese dissident and human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has broken his silence to describe how he was allegedly tortured and kept in solitary confinement while in detention.
The 51-year-old lawyer was released from prison in August 2014.
At the time, his lawyer described Mr Gao, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, as emotionless, Continue reading
Gao Zhisheng: Chinese lawyer describes ‘torture’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Zhisheng, Human Rights Lawyer
September 2, 2015
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Obama,
We are writing as your fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to ask that you call publicly on the Government of China to release from house arrest Liu Xia, the wife our imprisoned fellow Laureate Dr. Liu Xiaobo, and to allow her to travel abroad for medical treatment as she has requested. Continue reading
Letter to President Obama From 12 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
Tagged Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Xi Jinping
Technology | Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:31pm EDT
SEATTLE | BY ERIC M. JOHNSON AND DAVID RYDER
Practitioners of Falun Gong, who say the religious movement is persecuted in China, protest the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping in Seattle, Washington, September 22, 2015. REUTERS/David Ryder
Practitioners of Falun Gong, who say the religious movement is persecuted in China, protest the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping in Seattle, Washington, September 22, 2015.
REUTERS/DAVID RYDER
About 100 people protesting against human rights abuses in China greeted President Xi Jinping in Seattle on Tuesday, in what is likely to be the first of a series of demonstrations against China’s leader during his week-long U.S. visit.
In downtown Seattle, a crowd supporting Falun Gong, a religious Continue reading
Rights protesters, China supporters greet President Xi in Seattle已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Human Rights, Protests, USA, Xi Jinping
21 September 2015
Apple has said it is taking steps to remove malicious code added to a number of apps commonly used on iPhones and iPads in China.
It is thought to be the first large-scale attack on Apple’s App Store.
The hackers created a counterfeit version of Apple’s software for Continue reading
Apple’s App Store infected with XcodeGhost malware in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged App Store, Apple, censorship, China, Internet Freedom
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1.Mr. Xi Jinping, as chief of Party, State and the Military, from where do you get your paycheck? From the Party, or government, or military? Are all the budgets for the Party, Government and the military collected from taxpayers?
2. You have consistently emphasized that the PLA cannot be nationalized, because it belongs to the Party. If so, then why is the army paid by government budget, which come from taxpayers? Continue reading
64 Questions for Xi Jinping-Proposed by Initiatives for China/Citizen Power for China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged China, Human Rights Activists, Human Rights Lawyer, Xi Jinping
FILE – Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying arrives at a news conference which was held as part of the National People’s Congress, the country’s parliament, in Beijing, March 6, 2015.
Joyce Huang
September 18, 2015 9:17 AM
Nearly one year after pro-democracy protests riled Hong Kong’s politics, the territory’s top official is coming under criticism for suggesting that his position “transcends” Continue reading
Is Hong Kong’s Top Official Above the Law?已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
