The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online.
State Council Information Office: Effective immediately, find and delete all news related to the 6/22 Hong Kong referendum, thoroughly clean up related comments, and promptly send a work report [on your progress]. Continue reading
Minitrue: Hong Kong Referendum已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
By Teng Biao, published: June 22, 2014
June 4th has passed, but the arrests continue, and every day brings bad news from China. While scholar Xu Youyu, artist Chen Guang and others have been released “on probation,” Continue reading
Teng Biao：Beyond Stability Maintenance – From Surveillance to Elimination已关闭评论
Posted in Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration, Teng Biao
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen, Xu Youyu
Last week, the shroud of silence around the case of detained Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti sparked fears that a secret trial had already been held, and a plea from his wife for information. Now, Continue reading
No Trial Yet for Jailed Uyghur Scholar, Says Lawyer已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, Uighur
Tagged Ilham Tohti, Scholar, Uyghur
By CHRIS BUCKLEY JUNE 24, 2014
HONG KONG — Prosecutors in southern China have decided to put on trial a well-known human rights campaigner, Yang Maodong, on charges of disrupting public order, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Continue reading
China Activist to Stand Trial, Lawyer Says已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Guo Feixiong, Human Rights Lawyer, Yang Maodong
People line up at a polling center to vote in an unofficial referendum on democratic reform in Hong Kong, June 22, 2014.
Da Hai Han
June 23, 2014 7:13 PM
An unofficial pro-democracy referendum in Hong Kong has been extended through next Sunday, with nearly 720,000 people voting in the past three days to change how city leadership is elected. Continue reading
Hong Kong Voters Demand Election Reform in Unofficial Poll已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
By Juliana Liu
Hong Kong correspondent, BBC News
Occupy Central co-organisers announce the number of votes twenty-six hours after their unofficial referendum began in Hong Kong on 21 June, 2014
Organisers from the Occupy Central movement said the number of votes cast exceeded their expectations Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
An undated photo of Tang Jingling.
Photo courtesy of Tang’s wife Wang Yanfang
Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have formally arrested prominent human rights lawyer Tang Jingling Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Tang Jingling, Wang Qingying, Yuan Xinting
by Tienchi Martin-Liao / December 18, 2013
On the fifth year of Liu Xiaobo’s imprisonment.
Liu Xia, wife of Liu Xiaobo. Image: Lunar New Year via Flickr.
Exactly five years ago, on December 6, 2008, Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao：“In the beginning was the Word”已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged Charter 08, Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Price
