ILHAM TOHTI
A professor at Minzu University in Beijing and the foremost Uighur public intellectual in the People’s Republic of China, he was sentenced to life in prison in September 2014 for advocating basic economic, cultural, religious and political rights for the Uighur people.
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20 October 2015
The first thing that strikes you about the monasteries clinging to the side of the mountains on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau is their beauty.
Small, isolated communities of a few hundred monks, seemingly unperturbed with their white and gold stupas and prayer flags set against the almost impossible blue sky.
But anyone who stops to ask a few questions (although they are the kind of Continue reading
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Tagged Human Rights, Tibetan, UK, Visit, Xi Jinping
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A memorial to Zhao Ziyang and his wife at their family residence in Beijing, in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of a family member
Authorities in China’s capital have turned down an application for a burial plot for the ashes of late ousted premier Zhao Ziyang and his wife, as dozens of activists and ordinary Chinese marked his birthday at the weekend.
Well-wishers gathered on Oct. 17 at Zhao’s Beijing residence to remember a Continue reading
Family of Late Ousted Premier Denied Permission For Beijing Burial已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Burial, June 4th, Tiananmen, Zhao Ziyang
By ALAN WONG OCT. 15, 2015
Ken Tsang talked to reporters in the spot where he said he was beaten by police officers during pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong last year. Credit Philippe Lopez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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HONG KONG — Seven police officers in Hong Kong were charged with assault on Thursday in the beating of a protester during pro-democracy demonstrations last year.
The officers are accused of beating Ken Tsang, Continue reading
Hong Kong Police Officers Are Charged in Beating of Protester已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
2015-10-15
Wang Yu (L) and her son Bao Zhuoxuan (R) in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of a family friend.
As the United States expressed concern over the plight of the 16-year-old son of two detained Chinese rights lawyers, the country’s tightly controlled state media Continue reading
Detained Chinese Lawyers’ Son Smuggled to Myanmar by Banned Opposition Party: State Media已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Bao Zhuoxuan, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
2015-10-14
Wang Yu (L) and Bao Zhuoxuan (R) in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Bao Zhuoxuan
The teenage son of two detained Chinese rights lawyers was detained alongside two friends and fellow activists in a cross-border police operation in a rebel-controlled part of Continue reading
Chinese Police Worked With Myanmar Rebels to Arrest Son of Detained Rights Lawyers: Sources已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Bao Zhuoxuan, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
PUBLISHED ON MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2015.
As the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet, Reporters Without Borders notes that the 2010 recipient, the cyber-dissident Liu Xiaobo, has been languishing in a Chinese prison for nearly seven years. The organization urges the international community to put pressure on Beijing to release the citizen journalist.
The Chinese government has been arbitrarily holding Liu Xiaobo, Continue reading
2010 PEACE LAUREATE LANGUISHES IN CHINESE JAIL IN FACE OF INTERNATIONAL INDIFFERENCE已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
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Joshua Wong, the student activist who spearheaded pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong last year.Credit Philippe Lopez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Joshua Wong was 17 — not even old enough to vote — Continue reading
Joshua Wong Seeks Lower Age Limit for Hong Kong Candidates已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Joshua Wong, Occupy Central movement
