Identity documents from the Panama Papers. Clockwise from top left: Patrick Henri Devillers, Jia Liqing, Hu Dehua, Deng Jiagui and Li Xiaolin.
China’s Internet censors deleted a favorable blog post analyzing the links between relatives of the country’s president, Xi Jinping, and papers leaked from the Panama-based Mossack Fonseca law firm. Continue reading
China Issues, Deletes Article Defending President Over Panama Papers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged 12th-Century, censorship, Mossack Fonseca, offshore shell companies, Panama Papers, Xi Jinping
12 April 2016
Update #4 to RAN 09/14
PEN International is deeply concerned for the health of veteran journalist Gao Yu following reports that she was hospitalised after the Beijing Municipal Bureau of City Administration and Law Enforcement identified her garden for destruction on 31 March 2016. Gao Yu remains in hospital; her condition has now stabilised. PEN International calls on the Chinese authorities to stop harassing Gao Yu and to approve her application to be granted leave to travel to Germany for medical treatment. Continue reading
China: Continued harassment of veteran journalist Gao Yu (f); health concerns已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, PEN International News, RAN About Chinese
China’s President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrive in Moscow on March 22, 2013.
A writer in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has been locked up for five days by police for criticizing China’s first lady, his lawyer said on Friday. Continue reading
China Jails Writer For Five Days Over Comments About First Lady已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged detention, Peng Liyuan, Tian You, Xi Jinping
AFP, April 9, 2016, 12:01 am TWN
BEIJING — Mainland China on Friday sentenced an activist who supported pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong to four and a half years in jail, his lawyer told AFP as mainland leader Xi Jinping oversees a wide-ranging crackdown on civil society and free expression. Continue reading
China jails activist who supported HK protests已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Subversion
Tagged Guangzhou, Huang Jingyi, inciting subversion of the state power, LIANG QINHUI, Master Shengguan, Wang Mo, Wuhan, XU ZHIQIANG
Flier calling for the release of (clockwise from left) Xie Wenfei, Hwang Jingyi, Liang Qinhui, Zhang Shengyu, Wang Mo and Master Shengguan, April 8, 2016. Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Friday handed jail terms of up to four-and-a-half years to four rights activists who publicly supported the 2014 pro-democracy Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong. Continue reading
China Jails Four Supporters of Hong Kong Democracy Movement已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Internet Freedom, Subversion
Tagged conviction, Guangzhou, Hwang Jingyi, inciting subversion of the state power, LIANG QINHUI, Master Shengguan, sentence, Wang Mo, Wuhan, Xie Wenfei, XU ZHIQIANG, Zhang Shengyu
Identity documents from the Panama Papers. Clockwise from top left: Patrick Henri Devillers, Jia Liqing, Hu Dehua, Deng Jiagui and Li Xiaolin. ICIJ
As more details emerge from the Panama Papers, Chinese censors are fighting to ensure the top-down deletion of information that details how Chinese high-ranking political and financial elites managed and hid their wealth offshore. Continue reading
Censors Shift into Overdrive in an Attempt to Erase the Panama Papers in China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, Press Freedom
Tagged censorship, Panama Papers
Journalist Gao Yu in the Beijing’s Anzhen Hospital after her garden and office were demolished, April 5, 2016. Su Yutong.
Veteran journalist Gao Yu was hospitalized on Tuesday when the 71-year-old fell ill after her garden and home office were demolished by Chinese authorities last week, sources told RFA. Continue reading
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei gestures during a daily briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing, April 5, 2016.
BEIJING—China has moved quickly to silence any discussion about the Panama Papers and information about the use of tax havens by the families of at least eight current and former top leaders, including the brother-in-law of President Xi Jinping. Continue reading
Panama Papers Hit Great Firewall of China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged censorship, Panama Papers, Xi Jinping
