Police officers clash with protesters outside government headquarters in Hong Kong, Nov. 30, 2014.
Last updated on: December 01, 2014 11:22 AM
BEIJING—Hong Kong’s chief executive warned protesters not to return to the streets after they and police clashed late Sunday and early Monday outside government headquarters. Continue reading
Hong Kong Protesters Warned Not to Return After Clashes Disrupt Government已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
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
WEDNESDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2014
Tibetan writer and activist Lhaden. (File/TCHRD)
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has recently obtained a book written by Lhaden, a Tibetan writer and activist living inside Tibet. This latest book, Continue reading
From Wang Shiwei to Liu Xiaobo: Prisoners of Literary Inquisition under Communist Rule in China
Liu Xiaobo (28 December 1955- ), a renowned Chinese literary critic, dissident writer and human rights activist, was sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment for “inciting subversion of state power” based on his writings criticizing the Chinese authorities and his participation in drafting and launching Charter 08. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.
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No. 14 Yu ZHANG: Case 64 (2010): Liu Xiaobo, Winning Prize with No Enemies已关闭评论
Posted in PEN for Freedom, Support Liu Xiaobo, Zhang Yu
Tagged Charter 08, literary inquisition, Liu Xiaobo, Yu Zhang
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
Activist attorney Pu Zhiqiang is accused of a total of four offences as investigators hand his case to prosecutors in next step towards trial
PUBLISHED : Friday, 21 November, 2014, 3:08am UPDATED : Friday, 21 November, 2014, 9:34am
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Beijing police had handed over the case of human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang to Continue reading
Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang faces more charges as police hand case to prosecutors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
Reporter Gao faces charges of revealing state secrets while Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s life sentence appeal rejected.
Last updated: 21 Nov 2014 08:55
Chinese authorities have put on trial an outspoken journalist accused of revealing state secrets and rejected an appeal by Continue reading
Chinese activist and journalist go on trial已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, Ilham Tohti
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
