By AMY QIN AUGUST 5, 2014 6:00 PMAugust 6, 2014 3:38 pm 2 Comments
A noodle maker shows off his skills in a pulled noodle restaurant in Lanzhou.Credit The New York Times
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By AMY QIN AUGUST 5, 2014 6:00 PMAugust 6, 2014 3:38 pm 2 Comments
A noodle maker shows off his skills in a pulled noodle restaurant in Lanzhou.Credit The New York Times
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Paul French, North Korea: State of Paranoia
Zed Books, 480pp, £12.99, ISBN 9781780329475
reviewed by Stephen Lee Naish
My Google news feed is often set as to Continue reading
BY LINDA MCQUAIG | JULY 24, 2014
Photo: John Bristowe/flickr
As its website notes, “PEN Canada envisions a world where Continue reading
By Lu Chen, Epoch Times | July 28, 2014Last Updated: July 27, 2014 11:19 pm
Vaginal Coma, a new book revealing the brutal sexual torture of Continue reading
New Book Exposes Inhuman Sexual Torture in Masanjia Labor Camp已关闭评论
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Tagged Du Bin, Labor camp, Masanjia, Sexual Torture, Vaginal Coma
By GILLIAN WONG — Aug. 6, 2014 4:52 AM EDT
In this photo taken Jan. 6, 2006 and released by Hu Jia, Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer, second right, poses for photos with his son Gao Tianyu, right, and his wife Geng He, second left, and daughter Geng Ge, left, at their home in Beijing, China. A fiery critic of China’s authoritarian government whose imprisonment and accounts of torture triggered international criticism of Beijing appears set for release Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014 amid mounting concerns the authorities will continue to deny the lawyer freedom outside prison. (AP Photo/Hu Jia)
FILE – In this April 7, 2010 file photo, Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer, gestures during an interview at a tea house in Beijing, China. A fiery critic of China’s authoritarian government whose imprisonment and accounts of torture triggered international criticism of Beijing appears set for release Thursday, Aug 7, 2014 amid mounting concerns the authorities will continue to deny the lawyer freedom outside prison. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)
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Tagged Gao Zhisheng
1 August 2014
PEN International Condemns Killings of Journalists and Attacks on Media during Israeli Offensive in Gaza
Since 8 July 2014, when the Israel Defence Force (IDF) began ‘Operation Protective Edge,’ Israeli forces have reportedly killed seven journalists and media workers.
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Tagged Killings of Journalists during Israeli Offensive in Gaza
By: Dominic Moran
PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 1, 2014
On Wednesday, China indicted 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award Winner Ilham Tohti, a prominent ethnic Uyghur economics professor and Uyghur PEN member, on charges of separatism. The announcement on Tohti’s case came as security forces flooded parts of southern Xinjiang, the Uyghur Autonomous Region, after the government said dozens of knife-wielding attackers were shot dead this week. Continue reading
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An attempt by the Australian government to suppress details of a corruption case has backfired.
By Jarni Blakkarly
August 04, 2014
Wikileaks has released a leaked copy of Continue reading
Wikileaks Reveals ‘Unprecedented’ Media Silencing in Australia已关闭评论
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Tagged Australia, Media Silencing, Wikileaks