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PU ZHIQIANG：‘June Fourth’ Seventeen Years Later: How I Kept a Promise

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08.10.06

The weekend of June 3, 2006, was the seventeenth anniversary of the Beijing massacre and also the first time I ever received a summons. It happened, as the police put it, Continue reading →

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China: Detention of human rights defenders following commemoration of 1989 Tiananmen Square protests Take action on behalf of human rights defenders in China.

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Target adresses:
Ms. Wu Aiying
Minister of Justice of the People’s Republic of China, Continue reading →

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China frees artist held for Tiananmen anniversary

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Associated PressAssociated Press – Sat, Jun 14, 2014

FILE – In this April 29, 2014 file photo, Chen Guang, former Chinese soldier turned artist, poses for a photo after a performance to Continue reading →

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Arrested Chinese Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang Speaks from Prison

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THE EDITORS 06.13.14

Early this morning, the Beijing Public Security Bureau formally arrested rights-defense lawyer Pu Zhiqiang on charges of picking quarrels and illegally Continue reading →

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Hong Kong media outlets feel Beijing’s pressure as ads vanish

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By Michael Forsythe and Neil Gough / NY Times News Service, HONG KONG

 

In what may be a major escalation of pressure by Beijing on Hong Kong’s independently minded news media outlets, two major British banks have stopped advertising with one of the territory’s biggest newspapers, a top media executive said. Continue reading →

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Calls Grow for Release of Chinese Student Held Over Tiananmen Tweet

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2014-06-13 


A police van patrols Chang An Avenue near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, May 12, 2014.
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Jailed Nobel Dissident Unlikely to be Released Early: Lawyer

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2014-06-13

An undated file photo of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
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Jailed Chinese Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo is unlikely to be granted parole when his sentence comes up for review later this year, his lawyer said on Friday. Continue reading →

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A Media Mogul, Alone on the Island-Hong Kong’s fiery beacon of the free press, Apple Daily, is under threat from shadowy forces. Can it survive if Beijing wants it dead or quiet?

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BY JOHN GARNAUT JUNE 2, 2014

HONG KONG — When somebody rammed a stolen car into media magnate Jimmy Lai’s home last June 19 and neatly arranged an ax and a meat cleaver in front of the battered gate, Continue reading →

A Media Mogul, Alone on the Island-Hong Kong’s fiery beacon of the free press, Apple Daily, is under threat from shadowy forces. Can it survive if Beijing wants it dead or quiet?已关闭评论

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