January 16, 2015 10:55 PM
Posted By: Samuel Wade
Asia Society’s Eric Fish talks to five current and former news assistants for foreign media in China about the recently reported detention of their counterpart at Die Zeit, Zhang Miao. Continue reading
Chinese News Assistants React to Colleague’s Arrest已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
Tagged News Assistants, Zhang Miao
Published: January 14, 2015
Following the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, millions of people, including leaders from over 40 countries, went to the streets of Paris on January 11th to Continue reading
Tsering Woeser：Zuckerberg Is Not Exactly Being Honest about Defending Freedom of Expression已关闭评论
Posted in Press Freedom
3:52 pm HKT Jan 9, 2015
Journalists hold signs saying “I am Charlie” in French and Chinese on Thursday night at the Bookworm cafe and bookstore in Beijing. Wang Zhao/Agence France-Presse
Foreign correspondents who gathered at a Beijing bookstore Continue reading
Police Shadow Journalists’ Charlie Hebdo Gathering in Beijing已关闭评论
Posted in Press Freedom
Tagged Beijing, Charlie Hebdo, Journalists
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Zhao Haitong, seen in a detention center, was reportedly arrested in August 2013 and sentenced to 14 years in October 2014 for crimes including Continue reading
State Security Indictments, Cult Trials Up in Xi Jinping’s 2013已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged China, Inciting Subversion
By JESS MACY YU DECEMBER 8, 2014 1:00 AMDecember 8, 2014 1:00 am
A newsstand in Beijing. The government is calling for greater attention to ethics in journalism.Credit Rolex Dela Pena/European Pressphoto Agency
The Chinese government appears to have Continue reading
China Rails Against Pollution, of the Journalistic Variety已关闭评论
Posted in Press Freedom
Tagged China, Journalistic Variety, Pollution
Gao Yu, an outspoken liberal journalist, denies charges as she goes on trial in Beijing
Gao Yu was arrested in April and charged with feeding a secret document to ‘an overseas website’ Photo: AFP
Malcolm Moore By Malcolm Moore, Beijing10:09AM GMT 21 Nov 2014
A prominent liberal Chinese journalist has denied that she “leaked state secrets” during a four-hour trial in Beijing. Continue reading
Chinese journalist Gao Yu faces life sentence for leaking state secrets已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
By Qian Gang | Posted on 2014-11-06
The recent 4th Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party introduced a policy document with the long-winded title, Decision on Major Issues Concerning the Comprehensive Promotion of Rule of the Nation in Accord with the Law (关於全面推进依法治国若干问题的决定). Continue reading
China’s constitution roller-coaster已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, Press Freedom
Tagged China, Constitution
Activists rally outside parliament in support of students occupying the building to protest a trade pact with China in Taipei on March 21, 2014. (AFP/Mandy Cheng)
Political tensions are rising in Continue reading
Taiwan journalists feel pressure as elections approach已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Press Freedom, Taiwan
