By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW MAY 28, 2014 6:00 PM
Liu Xiaobo.
Reuters
The world has not heard from Liu Xiaobo, its only imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, for a long time.
Not since his impassioned self-defense in a Beijing court in December 2009, when he declared he had “no enemies and no hatred,” not toward the people who had arrested him, nor the judge who sentenced him on that icy Christmas Day for “incitement to subvert state power” for co-authoring Charter 08, Continue reading
May 29, 2014 • 10:20 pm
Updated 29 May 2014
Two months before the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, authorities in China began detaining, disappearing, questioning, and intimidating Chinese dissidents, human rights lawyers and activists, journalists, and others. Many of the targeted individuals took part in the pro-democracy demonstrations in the spring of 1989. Continue reading
Individuals Affected by Government Crackdown Around 25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Gao Yu, Hu Shigen, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen, Xu Youyu
Posted: 05/27/2014 11:57 am EDT Updated: 05/27/2014 4:59 pm EDT Print Article
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
Henry Miller was a devotee of astrology. Continue reading
2014-05-28
A device displays the logo of instant messaging platform WeChat, March 12, 2014.
AFP
China has launched a month-long crackdown on hugely popular instant messaging apps in a bid to purge them of “illegal and harmful information” and to fend off “hostile forces,” official media reported on Wednesday. Continue reading
By: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
PUBLISHED ON MAY 28, 2014
This week in the PEN Poetry Series, guest editor Cathy Park Hong features five new poems by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs. About Diggs’s work, Hong writes: “LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs’s poetry is a tense coil of enraptured, disco-cursive, code-switching lines. New York City Continue reading
Five Poems by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs已关闭评论
Posted in PEN International News
Tagged LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Poem
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Below, the left-hand screenshot was taken on May 28, 2014, and shows that when a user in Japan searches for “Tiananmen Massacre” (天安门大屠杀) in Chinese on Baidu.com, Baidu informs them that “In accordance with relevant laws, Continue reading
19:24 May 22 2014 Helsinki, 7;8, Kluuvi, Helsinki, Helsingin seutukunta, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, 00120, Finland
On April 29 2014, the European Court of Human Rights rejected a free speech claim over a defamation conviction by a Finnish journalist. Continue reading
Finnish journalist: right to free expression breached已关闭评论
Posted in Press Freedom
Tagged Finnish, Journalist, Press Freedom, Tiina Johanna Salumaki
2014-05-28
Golog Jigme Gyatso (second from left) speaks to reporters for the first time since his escape at a press Continue reading
