2015-09-24
Ken Tsang poses for a photo with an unidentified woman in Hong Kong, Jan. 25, 2015.
Photo provided by Ken Tsang
One year after a week-long student strike kicked off the 79-day Occupy Central pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, activists have slammed a lack of progress over allegations of police brutality, including the beating of a prominent democracy activist filmed by journalists as it happened.
Video footage filmed live at protests last November by local Continue reading
One Year After Occupy Central, Hong Kong Officials Have Yet to Investigate Beating已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
September 2, 2015
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Obama,
We are writing as your fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to ask that you call publicly on the Government of China to release from house arrest Liu Xia, the wife our imprisoned fellow Laureate Dr. Liu Xiaobo, and to allow her to travel abroad for medical treatment as she has requested. Continue reading
Letter to President Obama From 12 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
Tagged Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Xi Jinping
FILE – Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying arrives at a news conference which was held as part of the National People’s Congress, the country’s parliament, in Beijing, March 6, 2015.
Joyce Huang
September 18, 2015 9:17 AM
Nearly one year after pro-democracy protests riled Hong Kong’s politics, the territory’s top official is coming under criticism for suggesting that his position “transcends” Continue reading
Is Hong Kong’s Top Official Above the Law?已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
By EDWARD WONG SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 5:04 AM September 18, 2015 5:04 am
A photograph of Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace laureate, at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. In 2009, he was charged with “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced to 11 years in prison.Credit Espen Rasmussen for The New York Times
For them, pens and laptops are the tools of their trade and their megaphones to the world. Among their ranks are some of the best-known chroniclers of American society and Continue reading
PEN Appeals to Xi Jinping for Release of Imprisoned Chinese已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, Press Freedom, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
Tagged America, Gao Yu, Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo, PEN, Release, Writer
17 September 2015
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama in 2009 failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would, its ex-secretary has said.
Geir Lundestad told the AP news agency that the committee hoped the award would strengthen Mr Obama.
Instead, the decision was met with criticism in the US. Continue reading
Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison
Tagged Liu Xiaobo, Nobel, Obama, Peace Prize
By ANDREW JACOBS SEPT. 15, 2015
BEIJING — The Chinese authorities on Tuesday released a founder of a research institute who was instrumental in helping the legal activist Chen Guangcheng gain asylum in the United States after he escaped house arrest three years ago.
The founder, Guo Yushan, a scholar who led the Transition Institute, was released from custody along with He Zhengjun, the administrative director of the now-closed institute, Continue reading
China Releases Scholar Who Helped Activist Gain Asylum in U.S.已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Writers in Prison
Tagged Guo Yushan
2015-09-09
Activists in Hong Kong demonstrate for the release of rights lawyers detained on the Chinese mainland, Aug. 25, 2015.
RFA
Two months after Chinese police carried out a midnight raid on the home of prominent human rights lawyer Wang Yu and her husband, sparking a nationwide police operation targeting hundreds of attorneys, her lawyers marched to a police station near where she is believed to be held to demand a meeting with Wang.
Li Weida and Lu Zhoubin, Continue reading
Two Months On, Lawyers For China’s Detained Attorneys Still Don’t Know Where They Are已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion, Writers in Prison
Tagged Detained, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
8 September 2015
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Frontman Jon Bon Jovi had said he was ‘excited’ to be playing China
Bon Jovi’s first ever concerts in China have been cancelled by government officials, the BBC has learned.
No reason was given, but media reports Continue reading
