11 August 2014 Last updated at 03:20 ET
Paramilitary policemen stand guard during a ceremony to award those who the authorities say participated in “the crackdown of violence and terrorists activities” in Hotan, Xinjiang 3 August 2014
Chinese authorities have stepped Continue reading
China detains Xinjiang man for ‘online rumours’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, Uighur
Tagged Internet Freedom, Shache, Uighur, Xinjiang
Ian Johnson
Sim Chi Yin
Wang Lixiong and Woeser
Woeser and Wang Lixiong are two of Continue reading
Wang Lixiong and Woeser: A Way Out of China’s Ethnic Unrest?已关闭评论
Posted in Tibetan
Tagged China, Ethnic, Wang Lixiong, Woeser
On Thursday, Chinese authorities released prominent human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng from Continue reading
Prominent Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Released已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Gao Zhisheng, Human Rights Lawyer
2014-08-08
Woeser in an undated photo.
AFP
Updated at 2.45 p.m. ET on 2014-08-08
Beijing-based Tibetan poet and writer Tsering Woeser said Chinese Continue reading
By CHRIS BUCKLEYAUG. 7, 2014
Gao Zhisheng in 2010. Credit Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press
HONG KONG — One of China’s most famous dissident lawyers, Continue reading
Prominent Rights Lawyer Is Freed From Chinese Prison, His Relatives Say已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Zhisheng, Human Rights Lawyer
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Gao Zhisheng was released from Xijiang’s Shaya Prison on August 7, 2014. Image credit: rfa.org
Gao Zhisheng (高智晟), a defense lawyer known for taking on politically sensitive Continue reading
Gao Zhisheng Begins Sentence of Deprivation of Political Rights已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Zhisheng, Human Rights Lawyer
By: Dominic Moran
PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 1, 2014
On Wednesday, China indicted 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award Winner Ilham Tohti, a prominent ethnic Uyghur economics professor and Uyghur PEN member, on charges of separatism. The announcement on Tohti’s case came as security forces flooded parts of southern Xinjiang, the Uyghur Autonomous Region, after the government said dozens of knife-wielding attackers were shot dead this week. Continue reading
This Week in Free Expression: August 1, 2014已关闭评论
Posted in Uighur, Writers in Prison
Tagged Ilham Tohti
Tohti’s lawyer accuses prosecutors of ‘shocking’ handling of case and ignoring his rights to a defence
Tania Branigan in Beijing
theguardian.com, Wednesday 30 July 2014 13.08 EDT Continue reading
China charges Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti with separatism已关闭评论
Tagged Ilham Tohti, Scholar, Uighur
