12. ZHAO CHANGQING (released)

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Zhao ChangqingSex                              Male

Birth date                1969-04-06

Birth place              ShanyangCounty, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province

Resident place         Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province Continue reading →

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213. ZHAO WEI (released)

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Zhao WeiPen name               Koala

Sex                              Female

Birth date               1991-10-20

Birth place            Henan Province

Resident place       Beijing

Education                B.A. in journalism at Jiangxi Normal University  Continue reading →

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Tianjin Police Release Legal Assistant Zhao Wei on ‘Bail’

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The defense attorney for jailed rights lawyer Li Heping discovered he was relieved of duty when he visited his client in detention, Feb. 18, 2016

The defense attorney for jailed rights lawyer Li Heping discovered he was relieved of duty when he visited his client in detention, Feb. 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener.

Chinese authorities in the northern port city of Tianjin said on Thursday they have released a legal assistant detained in last year’s nationwide crackdown on rights lawyers, after unconfirmed reports that she was sexually assaulted in custody. Continue reading →

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Chinese Police Want Outspoken Bookseller Lam to Return to the Mainland

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Lam Wing-kei

Returned bookseller Lam Wing-kei speaks to RFA in Hong Kong, June 20, 2016. RFA

Police in China’s eastern city of Ningbo have called on bookseller Lam Wing-kee, whose explosive revelations of eight months in Chinese detention rocked his native Hong Kong, to return to the mainland to cooperate with an investigation. Continue reading →

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Chinese Journalists Restricted in Use of Social Media Content

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A man holds an iPhone as he visits the Sina Weibo microblogging site

A man holds an iPhone as he visits the Sina Weibo microblogging site (China’s version of Twitter) in Shanghai.

BEIJING—Authorities in China have clamped down on journalists’ use of what has become one of their biggest sources of news: the country’s popular social media websites. Under new rules, journalists must verify reports in social media before publishing them. Continue reading →

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Hong Kong Journalists Warn Over ‘Grave Threat’ to City’s Freedoms

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Members of the Hong Kong Journalists' Association display their annual report, July 3, 2016

Members of the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association display their annual report, July 3, 2016. RTHK

Journalists in Hong Kong have called on the city’s government to do much more to protect press freedom, citing a “grave threat” to its traditional freedoms of expression and association. Continue reading →

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China’s Cultural Revolution Through Eyes of Journalist Morley Safer

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Natalie Liu, July 02, 2016 9:22 PM
Morley Safer

“60 Minutes” correspondent Morley Safer arrives for Walter Cronkite’s funeral at St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue in New York, July 23, 2009. Safer died in May 2016.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the official launch of the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution by the Chinese government. Continue reading →

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Tens of Thousands March in Hong Kong, Police Fire Pepper Spray

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Protesters call for resignation of Hong Kong's chief executive, July 1, 2016

Protesters call for resignation of Hong Kong’s chief executive, July 1, 2016. Photo courtesy of Ling Guo Li

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong on Friday to call for the resignation of the city’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, as a bookseller recently detained by China for selling ‘banned books’ to mainland Chinese customers withdrew from the demonstration, citing fears for his personal safety. Continue reading →

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