Portraits of Li Tingting (top L), Wei Tingting (top R), (bottom, L-R) Wang Man, Wu Rongrong and Zheng Churan are pictured during a protest calling for their release in Hong Kong, April 11, 2015.
Shannon Van Sant
April 11, 2015 10:10 AM
HONG KONG—Chinese police have broadened their investigation into five women’s rights activists Continue reading
Women’s Rights Activists Await Formal Arrest in China已关闭评论
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Tagged China, Wang Man, Woman Rights Activists, Wu Rongrong, Zheng Churan
April 10, 2015
This post describes our analysis of China’s “Great Cannon,” our term for an attack tool that we identify as separate from, but co-located with, the Great Firewall of China. The first known usage of the Great Cannon is in the recent large-scale novel DDoS attack on both GitHub and servers used by GreatFire.org.
Authors: Bill Marczak1,2,3 (Lead), Nicholas Weaver2,3 (Lead), Jakub Dalek,1 Roya Ensafi,4 David Fifield,2 Sarah McKune,1 Arn Rey, John Scott-Railton,1 Ronald Deibert,1 Vern Paxson.2,3 Continue reading
2015-04-10
A man surfs the Internet at a coffee shop in Beijing in a file photo.
AFP
China has added a powerful new weapon in its battle to control what its users see online, adding the “Great Cannon” to its existing arsenal of blocks, filters and human censorship known Continue reading
China Deploys New Online Weapon in Internet Censorship Game: Report已关闭评论
Posted in Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
2015-04-09
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woman distributes newspapers in Hong Kong, Feb. 13, 2014.
AFP
The recent takeover by Beijing’s representative office in Hong Kong of a key publishing house has sparked fears of a widening ideological assault by the ruling Chinese Continue reading
Fears For Hong Kong’s Independent Publishers After China Book Chain Takeover已关闭评论
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Tagged Book Store, Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement, Press Freedom
By CHRIS BUCKLEY APRIL 9, 2015 4:53 AM April 9, 2015 4:53 am
The television host Bi Fujian’s performance of a song from the Mao-era opera “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy,” with irreverent asides, was captured on video.
HONG KONG — Mao Zedong famously said a revolution is not a dinner party. Nor, it seems, Continue reading
Mocking Mao Backfires for Chinese TV Host已关闭评论
Posted in Press Freedom
Tagged Bi Fujian, CCTV, Mao Zedong
By EDWARD WONG APRIL 8, 2015
BEIJING — Five women’s rights activists are being held illegally in Beijing because the police have failed to ask prosecutors to formally arrest them, the lawyers for three of them said on Wednesday.
According to Chinese law, the police are generally required to file a Continue reading
5 Women’s Rights Activists in China Are Being Held Illegally, Lawyers Say已关闭评论
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Tagged China, Women Rights Activists
2015-04-07
Activist Chen Yunfei leads a protest against alleged pollution at a petrochemical plant in Pengzhou, in Sichuan province, March 6, 2015. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have formally detained a prominent rights activist on subversion Continue reading
China Formally Detains Sichuan Activist For ‘Subversion’ After Tiananmen Memorial Visit已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chen Yunfei, June 4th, Tiananmen
Tue Apr 7, 2015 7:27am EDT
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers remarks during the 2015 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting award in Washington March 23, 2015.
REUTERS/JOSHUA ROBERTS
(Reuters) – China called on other countries on Tuesday to respect its judicial sovereignty after Continue reading
China peeved as Hillary Clinton denounces women’s detention已关闭评论
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