Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks with media in a press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani after their meeting at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Two weeks after China’s President toured state media offices and called for absolute loyalty from the press, a website with links to the government published an explosive letter asking him to resign “for the future of the country and the people.” Continue reading
Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi’s resignation已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, Press Freedom
Tagged Caixin, censorship, Media, open letter, Ren Zhiqiang, resignation, Xi Jinping, Zhou Fang
Weeks after Xi Jinping demanded loyalty from media, Caixin claims it was ordered to remove interview on free speech
Xi Jinping visiting China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing on 19 February, where he demanded absolute loyalty from Chinese media. Photograph: Ma Zhancheng/AP
Chinese magazine challenges government over censorship已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Caixin, censorship, Hu Shuli, Jiang Hong, Media, Xi Jinping
Case comes after controversy caused by the disappearance of five booksellers in Hong Kong in an apparent crackdown on the sale of works critical of China’s government
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Yuan Yulai is well known for this legal battles against government departments. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Yuan Yulai, 61, known for high-profile cases has he brought against government departments and ministries, filed the lawsuit in Zhejiang province on Monday. Continue reading
Chinese rights lawyer takes legal action after Hong Kong, Taiwan-published books seized已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, censorship, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Yuan Yulai
Both Lee and Gui later denied in mainland China that any abduction had taken place – but an email obtained by the South China Morning Post says otherwise
Phila Siu, [email protected]
Gui Minhai appears on state television. Lee Po feared he was taken by mainland Chinese agents while he was in Thailand. Photo: Phoenix TV
Exclusive: Email reveals Lee Po feared Gui Minhai kidnapped by Chinese agents before he himself disappeared已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, Causeway Bay Books, disappearance, email, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lee Po
A screen shot of a Tweet shows an edition of the Southern Metropolis Daily with headlines that when read together appear spell out an anti-propaganda message. RFA
An editor at a cutting-edge newspaper in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong was fired and another slapped with an official warning for “political problems” after a recent edition of the paper ran two coinciding headlines that spelled out an anti-propaganda message, sources told RFA. Continue reading
Chinese Editors Punished For ‘Political Mistakes’ Over Headline Acrostic已关闭评论
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Tagged dismissal, Guangdong, Liu Yuxia, Southern Metropolis Daily, Xi Jinping
Placards showing missing bookseller Lee Bo (L) and his associate Gui Minhai (R) outside the China liaison office in Hong Kong, Jan. 19, 2016. AFP
The first of five Hong Kong booksellers detained in mainland China since October over sales of political books across the internal border has returned to the city, local media reported on Friday. Continue reading
Hong Kong Bookseller Returns Home, ‘Refuses to Discuss Details’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Causeway Bay Books, confession, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Illegal business, Lui Por
All the men were linked to a bookshop and publishers which sold books critical of China
Police in Guangdong said in a letter to the Hong Kong force that Lui Bo, Lam Wingkei and Cheung Jiping would be bailed pending investigations. Continue reading
HK booksellers ‘to be released soon’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, Cheung Jiping, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lam Wingkei, Lee Bo, Lui Bo
HONG KONG | By Stella Tsang and James Pomfret
A printout showing Lee Bo, specializing in publications critical of China, and four other colleagues who went missing, is displayed outside a bookstore at Causeway Bay shopping district in Hong Kong, China January 6, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
Four of the five Hong Kong booksellers who went missing in October appeared on Chinese television confirming for the first time they’d been detained for “illegal book trading” in mainland China. Continue reading
Missing HK booksellers say arrested for sales of banned books in China已关闭评论
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Tagged bookseller, Cheung Chi-ping and Lam Wing-kee, disappearance, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Hong Kong publisher, Lui Por
