152. WANG GONGQUAN (released)

Pen name               

Sex                               Male

Birth date                 1961-10-22

Birth place               Gongzhuling City, Jilin Province

Resident place         Beijing City Continue reading

151. LIU HU (released)

Pen name               

Sex                                Male

Birth date                 1975-09-07

Birth place

Resident place         Chongqing City Continue reading

148. SHI WEIAN (released)

Pen name               

Sex                              Male

Birth date                1970

Birth place              Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province

Resident place         Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province Continue reading

147. ZHENG QIUWU (released)

Pen name               

Sex                               Male

Birth date                1959-09-20

Birth place              Sanya City, Hainan Province

Resident place         Wenchang City, Hainan Province Continue reading

China Detains Legal Activist Guo Yushan

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By JOSH CHIN CONNECT
Oct. 12, 2014 3:43 a.m. ET

Authorities in Beijing have criminally detained Guo Yushan, Continue reading

Guo Yushan:Civil Disobedience in Sodom – A Letter to Xu Zhiyong

Published: August 10, 2013

That government, powerful as it was, didn’t scare me into doing anything unjust.

— Ascribed to Socrates by Plato in The Apology

Zhiyong,

Congratulations for having been put in jail.

I have been worrying that, if they leave you free after arresting so many of your friends in the New Citizens’ Movement, how viciously they would have put you in an unjust position. Continue reading

Parsing the New Internet Rules of China’s Supreme Court

October 11, 2014

Yesterday, the Supreme People’s Court issued a document with the – predictably convoluted – title “Supreme People’s Court Regulations concerning Some Questions of Applicable Law in Handing Civil Dispute Cases involving the Use of Information Networks to Harm Personal Rights and Interests”. !–more–>This document provides Continue reading

Chinese Writer, Tackling Tiananmen, Wields ‘Power to Offend’

OCT. 10, 2014

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“When I talk with friends, I reminisce about the ’80s, when everything was not so tainted by the pressure of money, when poets didn’t abandon their work.” — SHENG KEYI Credit Adam Dean for The New York Times
The Saturday Profile

By JANE PERLEZ

BEIJING — WHEN her village was still lush with lotus plants, and a Continue reading