China Jails Citizen Activist For Five Years on Subversion Charge

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Liu Jiacai was initially detained by police in Hubei’s Yichang city on Aug. 3, 2013.
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Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei on Monday handed a five-year jail term Continue reading →

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Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Massacre Museum Under Pressure: Activists

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2015-05-11

6d511801-eda3-47d8-9923-d7f917639cfeHong Kong citizens attend a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown on June 4, 2014.
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Hong Kong activists running a museum dedicated to the 1989 student-led protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Continue reading →

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Chinese Province Issues Draft Regulation on Church Crosses

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By MICHAEL FORSYTHEMAY 8, 2015

HONG KONG — Cities in Zhejiang, one of China’s most prosperous provinces, are studded with Christian churches, Protestant and Catholic alike. Until recently, many of them had been topped by large crosses soaring into the sky, often illuminated with neon lights at night.

Under a new draft regulation made public this week by the Continue reading →

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US Lawmaker Urges Rejection of Proposed Hong Kong Voting Rules

Posted on 05/09/2015 by | US Lawmaker Urges Rejection of Proposed Hong Kong Voting Rules已关闭评论

4FD77CFB-FDDD-42EA-B18E-21B273A041EF_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy6_cw0U.S. Republican Representative Chris Smith of New Jersey speaks to VOA after a U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing in Washington, April 30, 2015. (M. Lipin/VOA)

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A U.S. lawmaker is encouraging Hong Kong legislators to veto electoral rules proposed by Beijing.

In a recent interview with VOA, New Jersey Republican Representative Chris Smith Continue reading →

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‘We Want The Truth To Be Told’: Tiananmen Mothers

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2015-05-07

image (77)Eleven citizens of Shandong who lost family members in 1989 meet to commemorate the 26th Anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown in late April.
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Twenty-six years after the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) suppressed the Chinese student-led democracy protests of 1989 with tanks and machine guns, Continue reading →

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Chinese Artist ‘Warned Off’ 1989 Tiananmen Activist Photo Project

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2015-05-06

69f8abe9-d418-490a-8707-fbc9dc6d0994Artist Sun Kai during recent RFA interview.
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A Chinese artist who was portraying the lives of 100 participants in the student-led 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing has abandoned the project in the face of growing pressure from the Continue reading →

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Present-Day Ethnic Problems in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region: Overview and Recommendations (3) – Religion

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By Ilham Tohti, translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 26, 2015

Continued from I. Unemployment and II. Bilingual Education

III. Religion

Overview

Since the July 2009 ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, religious fervor within China’s Uighur community has been rising steadily. Whether in traditional villages in southern Xinjiang, Continue reading →

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Chinese Rights Lawyer Marks Ten Months Under House Arrest

Posted on 05/06/2015 by | Chinese Rights Lawyer Marks Ten Months Under House Arrest已关闭评论

2015-05-06

Gao Zhisheng during an interview at his ofe0fc87e8-65f8-441a-9df8-5a751b378bacfice in Beijing, in a file photo.
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Top Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng remains effectively under house arrest, Continue reading →

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