Title: Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award
Awardee: one or two individual annually;
Candidacy: Anyone in the case list of Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN who is still imprisoned or released under legal restriction of the right to freedom of expression, such as “deprivation of political rights”; Continue reading
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People line up at a polling center to vote in an unofficial referendum on democratic reform in Hong Kong, June 22, 2014.
Da Hai Han
June 23, 2014 7:13 PM
An unofficial pro-democracy referendum in Hong Kong has been extended through next Sunday, with nearly 720,000 people voting in the past three days to change how city leadership is elected. Continue reading
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Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
By Juliana Liu
Hong Kong correspondent, BBC News
Occupy Central co-organisers announce the number of votes twenty-six hours after their unofficial referendum began in Hong Kong on 21 June, 2014
Organisers from the Occupy Central movement said the number of votes cast exceeded their expectations Continue reading
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Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
An undated photo of Tang Jingling.
Photo courtesy of Tang’s wife Wang Yanfang
Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have formally arrested prominent human rights lawyer Tang Jingling Continue reading
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Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Tang Jingling, Wang Qingying, Yuan Xinting
by Tienchi Martin-Liao / December 18, 2013
On the fifth year of Liu Xiaobo’s imprisonment.
Liu Xia, wife of Liu Xiaobo. Image: Lunar New Year via Flickr.
Exactly five years ago, on December 6, 2008, Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao：“In the beginning was the Word”已关闭评论
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Tagged Charter 08, Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Price
by Tienchi Martin-Liao / January 7, 2014
Liao Yiwu (right) with Tienchi Martin-Liao in front of House Poem. Photo: TJ Murphy
On a warm May day in Pittsburgh in 2013, Liao Yiwu sat down with his long-time friend and colleague Tienchi Martin-Liao. Continue reading
“If I’m Not Speaking That Means I’m Dead”: An Interview with Liao Yiwu已关闭评论
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by Tienchi Martin-Liao / January 15, 2014 /
As history looms large, tensions flare up between China and Japan.
Xi Jinping and Sinzo Abe
Xi Jinping (L), President of the People’s Republic of China; and Sinzo Abe (R), Prime Minister of Japan. Photos:
There is a famous photograph from 1970 that depicts West German Chancellor Willy Brand kneeling Continue reading
Tienchi Martin-Liao：Two Ceremonial Acts, One Bad Omen已关闭评论
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Tagged China, Japan, Sinzo Abe, Xi Jinping
June 22, 2014 – An editorial published in the South China Morning Post on Sunday believed that Chinese authorities should highly value its civil rights lawyers, Continue reading
Civil rights lawyers have vital role to play in China – South China Morning Post已关闭评论
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Tagged China, Human Rights Lawyer
