Gao Yu, an outspoken liberal journalist, denies charges as she goes on trial in Beijing
Gao Yu was arrested in April and charged with feeding a secret document to ‘an overseas website’ Photo: AFP
Malcolm Moore By Malcolm Moore, Beijing10:09AM GMT 21 Nov 2014
A prominent liberal Chinese journalist has denied that she “leaked state secrets” during a four-hour trial in Beijing. Continue reading
Chinese journalist Gao Yu faces life sentence for leaking state secrets已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
MAY 25, 2014
Evan Osnos writes of the imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo, whose picture is being carried by Chinese protesters. Credit Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Evan Osnos appears to be almost as entrepreneurial, intrepid and creative as the strivers whose linked portraits Continue reading
Striving for Wealth and Truth in China, in Face of Monolithic Government-‘Age of Ambition’ and ‘Leftover Women’ Gauge Social Upheaval已关闭评论
Posted in Publications, Writers in Prison
Tagged China, Evan Osnos, Liu Xiaobo
By Song Zhibiao, published: November 17, 2014
Editor’s update: Liren Rural Libraries announced its closure on September 18, 2014.
ONE OF THE LIREN LIBRARIES.
The Liren (literally: “cultivating talents”) Rural Libraries, which is devoted to aiding rural students to broaden their reading horizons and expand their learning opportunities, Continue reading
Chinese Government Moves to Limit and Eliminate Public Service NGOs: the Case of Liren Rural Libraries已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Liren Rural Libraries
Posted November 15th, 2014 by Cat Lucas & filed under Campaigns.
English PEN marks the Day of the Imprisoned Writer by launching Time to Read, a new e-book collection of work by writers at risk and former PEN cases from all over the globe
Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Belarusian Continue reading
English PEN marks the Day of the Imprisoned Writer by launching ‘Time to Read’ e-Book已关闭评论
Posted in PEN International News
Tagged English PEN, Time to Read
A week of news the West missed from the world’s most populous country.
BY BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN , RACHEL LU NOVEMBER 14, 2014
Every day, FP’s China team at the Tea Leaf Nation channel scours dozens of Continue reading
By Tim Graham | November 15, 2014 | 5:16 PM EST
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The New York Times reported a scandal when a collection of Nazi memorabilia caused a senior Human Rights Watch analyst to be suspended in 2009. Continue reading
Mao ‘Little Red Book’ Exhibit Spurs NY Times To Hail China For Better ‘Taste’ Than US In the 1960s已关闭评论
Posted in History
Tagged Little Red Book, Mao Zedong
By JOYCE LAUNOV. 14, 2014
Art on the Streets
CreditNicolas Asfouri/Getty Images — Agence France-Presse
HONG KONG — Thousands of pastel Post-it notes, marked with messages of support for pro-democracy Continue reading
Art Spawned by Hong Kong Protest; Now to Make It Live On已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
For Press Release
15 November 2014
The Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC) has honoured Mr. CHEN Shuqinqing, its member and an imprisoned writer in China, this year’s Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award for his long-term tenacity and courage in writing despite the threat of imprisonment. In addition, ICPC have adopted seventeen of writers imprisoned in China as its new honorary members, including WANG Bingzhang, GARTSE Jigme, WO Zhongxiao, WANG Jianmin, SHEN Yongping, TANG Jingling, WANG Qingying, YUAN Chaoyang, XU Zhiqiang, HUANG Zerong, GUO Yushan, KOU Yanding, HUANG Kaiping, ZHANG Miao, CHEN Kun, CHEN Yongzhou and JIANG Lijun.
ICPC Statement on PEN International Day of Imprisoned Writers已关闭评论
Posted in Award, Documents, Headlines, honorary Members, ICPC News
Tagged CHEN SHUQING, Day of Imprisoned Writers, honorary members, Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write
