Category Archives: Special Topics

South China Morning Post Turns to the Mainland

Written by Our Correspondent

TUE,17 JUNE 2014

Whose side are they on?

Beijing mouthpieces given more space and prominence Continue reading

You Won’t Get Near Tiananmen!’: Hu Jia on the Continuing Crackdown

IAN JOHNSON 06.02.14

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Activist Hu Jia in Beijing, April 2014. Continue reading

Chinese Lawyers Lodge Formal Complaint Over New Rules

2014-06-17


Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (L) stands with his lawyer Pu Zhiqiang as he leaves for court in Beijing, July 20, 2012.
AFP
Chinese lawyers have launched a signature campaign against moves Continue reading

Chinese rights lawyers warn of crackdown after arrest of Pu Zhiqiang

Detentions of artist Ai Weiwei’s lawyer and numerous others reveal Beijing’s fear about growth in rights activism, says

Tania Branigan in Beijing

theguardian.com, Tuesday 17 June 2014 10.09 EDT

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Censorship storm as YouTube bans Alliance for True Democracy ad

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 17 June, 2014, 3:36am UPDATED : Tuesday, 17 June, 2014, 9:46am

Ng Kang-chung
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Censorship storm as YouTube bans Alliance for True Democracy ad

Video-sharing website YouTube is facing a political censorship row after Continue reading

PEN Alarmed by Reports of Secret Trial and Conviction in Tohti Case

Literary and Human Rights Group Maintains Uyghur Writer’s Innocence

PEN American Center is deeply troubled by reports that jailed Uyghur scholar and 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award winner Ilham Tohti has been sentenced to a “heavy” jail term in a secret trial in China. Continue reading

China executes 13 people for “terrorist” attacks in Xinjiang

BY MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN AND BEN BLANCHARD

BEIJING Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:30am EDT


The trial of three people sentenced to death for their roles in an October attack on the edge of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square is seen in this still image taken from video in Urumqi city, June 16, 2014. Continue reading

Chinese Netizens, Commentators Slam ‘Massacre’ Article

2014-06-16 


Visitors looking at photos of victims at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, June 11, 2014.
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