Category Archives: Writers in Prison

China Releases Graft-Busting Journalist on ‘Bail’ After A Year’s Detention

Posted on 08/07/2014 by | 已关闭评论

2014-08-04

A newspaper vendor talks to a customer at her booth on a street in Shanghai, Jan. 8, 2013.AFP

Chinese authorities have released an outspoken Continue reading →

China Releases Graft-Busting Journalist on ‘Bail’ After A Year’s Detention已关闭评论

Posted in Internet Freedom, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison

Tagged Journalist, Liu Hu

CONCERNS GROW OVER CHINESE RIGHTS LAWYER’S RELEASE

Posted on 08/06/2014 by editor | 已关闭评论

By GILLIAN WONG — Aug. 6, 2014 4:52 AM EDT

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In this photo taken Jan. 6, 2006 and released by Hu Jia, Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer, second right, poses for photos with his son Gao Tianyu, right, and his wife Geng He, second left, and daughter Geng Ge, left, at their home in Beijing, China. A fiery critic of China’s authoritarian government whose imprisonment and accounts of torture triggered international criticism of Beijing appears set for release Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014 amid mounting concerns the authorities will continue to deny the lawyer freedom outside prison. (AP Photo/Hu Jia)

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FILE – In this April 7, 2010 file photo, Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer, gestures during an interview at a tea house in Beijing, China. A fiery critic of China’s authoritarian government whose imprisonment and accounts of torture triggered international criticism of Beijing appears set for release Thursday, Aug 7, 2014 amid mounting concerns the authorities will continue to deny the lawyer freedom outside prison. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)
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CONCERNS GROW OVER CHINESE RIGHTS LAWYER’S RELEASE已关闭评论

Posted in Writers in Prison

Tagged Gao Zhisheng

This Week in Free Expression: August 1, 2014

Posted on 08/06/2014 by editor | 已关闭评论

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 →

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Posted in Uighur, Writers in Prison

Tagged Ilham Tohti

UYGHUR WEBSITE EDITOR AND ECONOMIST FACING POSSIBLE DEATH PENALTY

Posted on 08/02/2014 by | 已关闭评论

PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY 1 AUGUST 2014.

After being held for six months, Ilham Tohti has been formally charged with separatism

Ilham Tohti, an ethnic Uyghur economist at Beijing’s Central University Continue reading →

UYGHUR WEBSITE EDITOR AND ECONOMIST FACING POSSIBLE DEATH PENALTY已关闭评论

Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison

Tagged Ilham Tohti, Uyghur

Xiao Guozhen：Li Huaping-A Child of Freedom

Posted on 07/29/2014 by | 已关闭评论

published: July 28, 2014

LI HUAPING (李化平),

Before Li Huaping (李化平) became known by his real name, he was known among Chinese netizens Continue reading →

Xiao Guozhen：Li Huaping-A Child of Freedom已关闭评论

Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison

Tagged Li Huaping, Xiao Guozhen

MYANMAR: Five journalists sentenced to 10 years in prison; 50 others face charges for a peaceful protest

Posted on 07/18/2014 by | 已关闭评论

17 July 2014 RAN

Five journalists with the Unity weekly journal, arrested in January and February 2014, were each sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labour on 10 July 2014 over a report about an Continue reading →

MYANMAR: Five journalists sentenced to 10 years in prison; 50 others face charges for a peaceful protest已关闭评论

Posted in PEN International News, Rapid Action Network

Tagged Journalists, Myanmar, Sentenced to Prison