Sensitive Words: Speech Essence Research Center

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As of May 12, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user” function).

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Drawing the News: So Many Lawyers-A roundup of online political cartoons from the past two weeks

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As the 25th anniversary of the June 4th, 1989 crackdown on protest in Tiananmen square grows ever nearer, names are being added to the list of those detained, placed under house arrest, or questioned by authorities as the central government makes efforts to conceal commemoration of that unfortunate date 25 years ago (for up-to-date records of detentions, house-arrests, and other restrictions, see lists from Human Rights in China and Amnesty International).

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China’s rights lawyers willing to pay for progress

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A few brave souls risk beatings and detention as they seek fairness for their clients … and country

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 20 May, 2014, 4:04am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 20 May, 2014, 4:04am

By Karen Lee

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A child of Tiananmen – young activist campaigns for her father’s release from jail

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20 May 2014

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Ti-Anna’s father, Wang Bingzhang, who is currently in prison in China, named her after Tiananmen Square.Ti-Anna’s father, Wang Bingzhang, who is currently in prison in China, named her after Tiananmen Square.© Ti-Anna Wang.

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Free Wang Bingzhang

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Tibet propaganda boss vows to ‘seal’ internet to stop separatists

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BEIJING Wed May 14, 2014 7:05am EDT

(Reuters) – Tibet’s top propaganda official vowed to “seal and stifle” the internet in an effort to defang separatist groups in the Himalayan region, China’s cabinet said on Wednesday.

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Tiananmen: How Wrong We Were

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By Jonathan Mirsky

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Some of the two hundred thousand pro-democracy student protesters face to face with policemen outside the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, April 22

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China bans Tibetan religious figure from monastic order

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(TibetanReview.net, May18, 2014) – China has stripped a senior Tibetan religious figure of his monastic robe and also banned him from rejoining or teaching at his monastery in Chamdo (Chinese: Changdu) County of Tibet Autonomous Region, after releasing him from jail on May 5, reported Radio Free Asia (Washington) May 16. Khenpo (Abbot) Lodroe Rabsel was held in late 2011, with a friend named Khenpo Namse Sonam for refusing to cooperate with the Chinese officials conducting patriotic re-education campaigns at their Karma Monastery.

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