Xi Jinping gives a speech at the Internet conference in Wuzhen, China, Dec. 16, 2015. AFP
Chinese Internet users on Wednesday hit out at a “global” Internet conference hosted by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, as their president Xi Jinping called for more control by governments over cyberspace. Continue reading
China’s President Calls For More Borders, State Control in Cyberspace已关闭评论
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A man reads a magazine beside a newsstand in Beijing in a file photo. AFP
China jailed or detained a record number of journalists in 2015, more than any other country, and now holds a quarter of all journalists behind bars globally, a U.S.-based press freedom group said in a report. Continue reading
China Has Record Number of Journalists Behind Bars: Report已关闭评论
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Tagged Corruption, Journalist, Wang Xiaolu, Zan Aizhong
Rights lawyers like Pu Zhiqiang (front right, in May 3, 2014 photo) are an endangered species in China. Photo courtesy of China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD).
Several dozen prominent rights lawyers and activists have canceled a conference on the prevention of torture in the southwestern Chinese region of Guangxi after police intervention and surveillance, participants told RFA on Friday. Continue reading
Chinese Police Ban Anti-Torture Conference by Rights Lawyers已关闭评论
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Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in Beijing in this July 20, 2012 picture. © 2012 Reuters
(New York) – Chinese authorities should drop all charges against prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang and free him immediately. Pu is on trial before the Beijing Number 2 Intermediate People’s Court for alleged crimes of “inciting ethnic hatred” and “creating a disturbance” for seven microblog, or “Weibo,” posts that he published online between July 2011 and May 2014. Continue reading
China: Free Prominent Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang已关闭评论
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Tagged Ai Weiwei, HRW, Indictment, Lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang
11 December 2015, 19:16 UTC
The Chinese authorities must end their persecution of prominent human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, Amnesty International said, ahead of his trial which is set to begin on Monday in Beijing.
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China: Trial of lawyer Pu Zhiqiang an act of political persecution已关闭评论
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BJ 2d Br Proc Crim Indict (2015) No. 48
Defendant Pu Zhiqiang, male, born January 17, 1965, identification number [redacted], Han ethnicity, from Hebei Province, master’s degree education, is a lawyer at the Beijing Huayi Law Firm and resides at [redacted] in Beijing. Placed under criminal detention by the Haidian Precinct of the Beijing Public Security Bureau on May 6, 2014, under suspicion of provoking a serious disturbance. With the approval of this procuratorate, arrested by the Beijing Public Security Bureau on June 13, 2014, under suspicion of illegally obtaining citizens’ personal information and provoking a serious disturbance. Continue reading
Pu Zhiqiang’s Indictment and the Seven Incriminating Weibo Posts已关闭评论
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Pu Zhiqiang and Abduljalil Al-Singace Honored
Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award
And 27 Writers Adopted as Honorary Members
(10 December 2015)
Today is the International Human Rights Day as well as the fifth anniversary of Dr. LIU Xiaobo, the former and honorary president of Independent Chinese PEN Centre (ICPC), being awarded in absence to the Nobel Peace Prize, while two day earlier it had been seventh years since his detention. For commemoration of these dates, ICPC has honoured Mr. PU Zhiqiang, its honorary member as well as a lawyer and blogger detained in China, and Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace, an academic and blogger imprisoned in Bahrain, this year’s Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award for their long-term tenacity and courage in writing and fighting for freedom of expression and other basic rights despite imprisonment. In addition, ICPC have adopted twenty-seven of writers imprisoned in China as its new honorary members, namely FU Zhibin, YU Shiwen, LIU Haitao, DONG Tubin, XIE Wenfei, WANG Mo, SU Changlan (f), LIANG Qinhui, CHEN Yunfei, ZHANG Shenyu, HUANG Jingyi, WU Gan, ZHAO Haitong, WANG Quanzhang, SUI Muqing， XIE Yang, YANG Weidong, XIE Yanyi, WANG Yu (f), LI Heping, LIU Shaoming, SUN Feng, WANG Xiaolu, LIU Sixin, ZHAO Wei (f), LIU Wei and XIN Lijian. Continue reading
ICPC Statement for International Human Rights Day已关闭评论
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Tagged Liu Xiaobo, Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award, Pu Zhiqiang
2015-12-07
Journalist Li Xin, who went into exile to protect his family in China, in undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Li Xin
Authorities in the southern province of Guangdong have prevented the wife and son of a former columnist at a top Chinese newspaper from leaving the country to join him after his defection.
Li Xin, rights activist and writer for the cutting-edge Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper, fled to India three months ago after being recruited by China’s state security police to spy on his fellow Continue reading
China Slaps Exit Ban on Wife, Son of Defected Former Journalist已关闭评论
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