Lawyer For Uyghur Scholar Denied Evidence Ahead of Trial

2014-08-13 

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Ilham Tohti in Beijing, August 2012.
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What Can’t Be Sung: Xiaolu Guo and Nellie McKay in Conversation with Sasha Frere-Jones

 

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Arrested, Detained: A Guide to Navigating China’s Police Powers

By Stanley Lubman

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Headlines about China are filled with reports of Chinese citizens Continue reading

China TV series on Deng stirs questions on political openness

BY MICHAEL MARTINA

BEIJING Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:49am EDT

A man looks out from a window next to a portrait of late Chinese leader Deng in a gallery at Dafen Oil Painting Village, in Shenzhen

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China detains Xinjiang man for ‘online rumours’

11 August 2014 Last updated at 03:20 ET

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Paramilitary policemen stand guard during a ceremony to award those who the authorities say participated in “the crackdown of violence and terrorists activities” in Hotan, Xinjiang 3 August 2014
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Naomi May: Scottish novelist and writer who worked tirelessly for PEN’s ‘Writers in Prison’ Committee

Her novels were daring and convincing in their emotional spectrum

PATRICIA CRAIG Sunday 10 August 2014

Naomi May, who has died at her home in Richmond, Surrey, was an accomplished novelist and short-story writer Continue reading

Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

By Kang Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot

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Wang Lixiong and Woeser: A Way Out of China’s Ethnic Unrest?

Ian Johnson
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Sim Chi Yin
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Woeser and Wang Lixiong are two of Continue reading