A newspaper columnist urges passersby to support stabbed former Ming Pao chief editor Kevin Lau in Hong Kong February 28, 2014. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
A newspaper columnist urges passersby to support stabbed former Ming Pao chief editor Kevin Lau in Hong Kong February 28, 2014.
REUTERS/BOBBY YIP
The Hong Kong Journalists’ Association says PP has Continue reading
Hong Kong journalist association says press freedom deteriorating已关闭评论
Posted in Hong Kong Democracy, Press Freedom
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement, Press Freedom
2015-06-25
Chai Huiqun during a reporting assignment in an undated photo.
(Photo courtesy of Chai Huiqun)
A journalist for a cutting-edge newspaper is waging a Continue reading
Southern Weekend Journalist Sues Chinese Doctors’ Association Over ‘Fake Report’ Claim已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Chai Huiqun, Journalist, Southern Weekend
May 28, 2015
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On a recent walk along a street in the southern Chinese city of Sanya, I heard a shop pumping out a rock version of the famous Communist Party anthem “Socialism Is Good.” Continue reading
MURONG XUECUN: Corrupting the Chinese Language已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Murong Xuecun, Press Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, MURONG XUECUN, Press Freedom
By ALEXANDRA ALTER May 29, 2015
Protesters, including some Chinese writers, at the New York Public Library this week while a Chinese publishing delegation attended BookExpo only blocks away.
Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
A few years ago, the Chinese writer Murong Xuecun had the kind of Continue reading
China’s Publishers Court America as Its Authors Scorn Censorship已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, MURONG XUECUN, Press Freedom
2015-05-28
Shanghai artist Dai Jianyong demonstrates the ‘Chrysanthemum Face’ in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Dai Jianyong
Authorities in Shanghai are holding an outspoken artist and street photographer after he posted satirical images of China’s president online, his lawyer told RFA, Continue reading
Shanghai Police Hold Artist Who Posted Satirical Photo of China’s President已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Artist, Dai Jianyong, Xi Jinping
April 15, 2015
One evening in June 2013, I received a call from a man who identified himself as an official for the Chinese Communist Party’s Propaganda Department in Beijing. Continue reading
HO PIN: Gao Yu’s Real Crime已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu
By Humanitarian China and China Change, published: April 26, 2015
Humanitarian China will match your donation, as it did in the Ilham Tohti drive, and send twice as much as it receives to the family of Gao Yu.
Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who served a seven-yearss prison sentence for disclosing “state secrets”, addresses a press conference in Hong Kong, 05 February 2007. International PEN held a meeting 2-5 February 2007 of writers from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan along with writers from other countries to discuss literature and free expression. AFP PHOTO/MIKE CLARKE
A file photo of Chinese journalist Gao Yu speaking at a press conference in Hong Kong. AFP via RFA http://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/baotong/detention-03302015110907.html
On April 17, Beijing Municipal Third Intermediary People’s Court sentenced 71-year-old independent Chinese Continue reading
A Joint Donation Drive for Gao Yu已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Press Freedom
Tagged Gao Yu
2015-04-20
Policemen take the identity of journalists before sentencing of Chinese journalist Gao Yu, April 17, 2015.
AFP
Beijing police are keeping the family of jailed veteran political journalist Gao Yu under close surveillance and tightening security in the Chinese capital, Continue reading
Gao Yu’s Family Under Surveillance Amid Security Clampdown in Beijing已关闭评论
Posted in June 4th Commemoration, Press Freedom
Tagged Gao Yu, state secrets
