By Ilham Tohti, translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 23, 2015
Continued from I. Unemployment
II. Bilingual Education
Overview
Besides unemployment, the issue that provokes the most intense reaction within Xinjiang’s Uighur community is the issue of bilingual education. In practice, “bilingual education” in Xinjiang has essentially become “monolingual education” (i.e. Mandarin-only education.) Continue reading
Present-Day Ethnic Problems in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region: Overview and Recommendations (2) – Bilingual Education已关闭评论
Posted in Uighur, Writers in Prison
Tagged Ilham Tohti, Uighur
2015-05-05
Netizens at an Internet cafe in China’s Zhejiang province, Nov. 2, 2012.
AFP
China’s 642 million Internet users are gradually abandoning the once-popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo and similar sites, as several years of crippling censorship is revealed in recent research, Continue reading
Chinese Netizens Migrate Away From Closely Censored Weibo Platforms已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
By Ilham Tohti, translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 22, 2015
ILHAM TOHTI WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON ON SEPARATISM CHARGES ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2014.
This article, a total of 24,000 words in Chinese, was first posted on the Daxiong Gonghui (“大象公会”) website after the Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s arrest in January, 2014. Continue reading
Present-Day Ethnic Problems in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region: Overview and Recommendations (1) – Unemployment已关闭评论
Posted in Uighur, Writers in Prison
Tagged Ilham Tohti, Uighur
By Wu Rongrong, published: April 27, 2015
Wu Rongrong (武嵘嵘), though released along with the four other feminist activists on April 13, was subjected to grueling, humiliating interrogations on April 23rd and 24th. Don’t let the CCP machine destroy the very best of China. – The Editor
Fate and chance made me a social worker and a feminist: gentle and timid in appearance, but a staunch defender of women’s rights. Continue reading
Wu Rongrong: How I Became a Women’s Rights Advocate已关闭评论
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Tagged Woman’s Rights Activists, Wu Rongrong
2015-05-04
Pu Zhiqiang (front right) attends a seminar about the Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing, May 3, 2014.
Photo courtesy of CHRD
Authorities in the Chinese capital have once more extended the detention of prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who has now spent a year behind bars without trial, after he marked Continue reading
China Extends Detention of Rights Lawyer Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
Speech by YANG Jianli
at “Children of Prisoners of Conscience”—Organization Launch
The 10th InterEthnic/InterFaith Leadership Conference
April 29, 2015 Continue reading
YANG Jianli: To all Children of Prisoners of Conscience已关闭评论
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Tagged YANG JIANLI
by Yifeng（逸风）
the selfie of Wang Zang（王藏）
Your shaved head
Is as the same as mine
Towering in the darkness behind the rain curtain
We know that light above your umbrella
Was the broken rain
Continue reading
FILE – Chai Ling, a former student leader during the Tiananmen Square protests, speaks as U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) stands behind her during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 18, 2011.
Yang Chen
May 03, 2015 5:01 PM
CAPITOL HILL—A leading Chinese dissident has told a U.S. congressional hearing that Continue reading
Chinese Dissident Optimistic China May End One-Child Policy已关闭评论
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Tagged Birth-Control, Chai Ling, One-Child
