2015-04-07
Activist Chen Yunfei leads a protest against alleged pollution at a petrochemical plant in Pengzhou, in Sichuan province, March 6, 2015. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have formally detained a prominent rights activist on subversion Continue reading
China Formally Detains Sichuan Activist For ‘Subversion’ After Tiananmen Memorial Visit已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chen Yunfei, June 4th, Tiananmen
2015-04-06
Petitioners visit the home of the late Zhao Ziyang during Qing Ming festival in Beijing, April 5, 2015.
Photo courtesy of an activist
Police in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi detained dozens of members of an anti-corruption campaign group after they tried to hold a public memorial for the father of President Continue reading
China Detains Dozens Amid Crackdown on Qing Ming Memorials已关闭评论
Posted in June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Qing Ming Memorials, Zhao Ziyang
By JACK CHANG and ISOLDA MORILLO
Mar. 11, 2015 10:23 PM EDT
In this photo taken Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, Xu Xing talks about his documentary film work at home in… Read more
BEIJING (AP) — In his small ground-floor apartment just a few blocks from Beijing’s landmark Bird’s Nest stadium, Chinese language teacher, writer and do-it-yourself documentary maker Xu Xing is urgently preserving what he can of China’s forbidden past.
Traveling usually by himself Continue reading
Secret historians preserve past in China amid state amnesia已关闭评论
Posted in History, June 4th Commemoration
Elizabeth Dalziel/AP Images
Pu Zhiqiang, speaking to the press under close watch by plainclothes policemen, not pictured, at his office in Beijing, June 1, 2009
In late January, Chinese authorities announced that they are considering Continue reading
Perry Link:China: Inventing a Crime已关闭评论
Posted in Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Perry Link, Pu Zhiqiang
Published: January 20, 2015
PU ZHIQIANG (浦志强). PHOTO FROM ONLINE.
On January 11, the Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强) spent his fiftieth birthday behind bars. No one knows what was going through the mind of this famous and very vocal lawyer Continue reading
Chang Ping:The Looming Shadow of the Case against Pu Zhiqiang已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Internet Freedom, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang
By China Change, published: January 12, 2015
Shortly before June 4th, 2014, ten in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, were arrested for holding a public memorial for Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳). Seven of them have since been released, Continue reading
Prominent 1989ers Voice Support for Yu Shiwen, Detained for Commemorating the Tiananmen Movement已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Tiananmen, Yu Shiwen, Zhao Ziyang
BY SUI-LEE WEE AND MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN
BEIJING Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:00am EST
Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in Beijing in this July 20, 2012 picture.
CREDIT: REUTERS/PETAR KUJUNDZIC
(Reuters) – Chinese prosecutors could upgrade the charges against a Continue reading
Prominent China rights lawyer could face harsher charges: attorney已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
Human rights fears grow as Gao Yu, 70, faces life sentence, while jailed Uighur scholar’s appeal is turned down
Chinese journalist Gao Yu in 2012. State media have said she is accused of leaking an internal Communist party document to foreigners. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP
Tania Branigan in Beijing
Friday 21 November 2014 09.30 EST
China has tried a veteran journalist for revealing state secrets and Continue reading
Chinese journalist charged with handing over state secrets已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
