Nathan VanderKlippe
HONG KONG — The Globe and Mail
Lee Bo had reason to be suspicious when he got a phone call just before 6 p.m. on Dec. 30 from someone who wanted to place an order for 10 copies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The bookseller didn’t know the caller, a potential red flag at a fraught time. Four of Mr. Lee’s colleagues had vanished months earlier, shocking Hong Kong and raising worry that China is abducting people it wants to silence. Continue reading
China extends reach to take Hong Kong’s freedom of speech away已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, disappearance, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Lee Bo, Publisher
Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, arrives in Yan’an, Shaanxi province, after the Long March, Oct. 15, 1935. Pigiste/Xinhua/AFP
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has stopped publication of a collection of essays by a well-known historian whose books have never yet been available outside Hong Kong. Continue reading
China Bans New Book by Late Scholar of Communist Party History已关闭评论
Posted in Book Reviews, Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Gao Hua, Mao Zedong
A detained Swedish rights activist has appeared on Chinese state television apparently confessing to breaking the law through his group’s activities.
Peter Dahlin has been held since early January amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists. Continue reading
Swedish activist Peter Dahlin ‘confesses’ on China TV已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged confession, Gui Minhai, Peter Dahlin, TV, Wang Yu
By Editorial Board January 18 at 6:32 PM
Human rights lawyer Wang Yu talks during an interview with Reuters in Beijing in 2014. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
FOR ALL the semblance of a judicial system, with lawyers, judges and prosecutors, China’s courts remain a tool of a party-state that sees itself as above the law. People can be detained for months — they simply disappear — and only later formally charged or tried. In China, detention means being sucked into the vortex of arbitrary rule. Continue reading
China pulls lawyers and activists into a dark zone of fear已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Guan Hu, director of “Mr. Six.” Image via Youtube user: Yitiao Video 一条视频,
Guan Hu’s newest movie resonates with the Cultural Revolution generation, but the film has one fatal flaw. Continue reading
A Look at “Mr. Six”已关闭评论
Posted in Culture, Headlines, Tienchi Martin-Liao
Tagged Cultural Revolution, Guan Hu, movie, Mr. Six, Pu Zhiqiang
In a video interview with a bookseller missing since November, he says he was afraid of going to jail and thought he’d better run – despite being given a suspended sentence for the offence in 2004 Continue reading
Missing Hong Kong bookseller appears on state television, claiming he turned himself in over 11-year-old drink-driving death已关闭评论
Posted in Culture, Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, CCTV, disappearance, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Mighty Current
US-based writer Yu Jie says publication of Xi Jinping’s Nightmare was halted as the industry ‘wants to stay out of trouble’ after five booksellers have vanished
Chinese dissident author Yu Jie. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images
The author of a book which criticises Chinese president Xi Jinping has said its publication has been suspended in Hong Kong, because its publisher was fearful of the “huge consequences” of its release, following the mysterious disappearance of five of the city’s publishers in recent months. Continue reading
Book on Chinese president pulled as fears grow for missing Hong Kong publishers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged bookseller, censorship, Hong Kong, Jin Zhong, Lee Bo, Publisher, Xi Jinping, Yu Jie
(New York) – The Chinese authorities’ formal arrest of at least 11 human rights lawyers, legal assistants, and activists on political subversion charges is an unprecedented and grave escalation of attacks on rights defenders in China, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities should immediately drop the charges and release the 11, as well as other lawyers and human rights advocates in custody for political reasons. Continue reading
China: Subversion Charges Target Lawyers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, honorary Members, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion
Tagged arrest, Hu Shigen, lawyers, Liu Sixin, Subversion, Wang Quanzhang, Wang Yu, Xie Yanyi, Zhao Wei
