2015-11-12
Chinese human rights lawyer and torture victim Gao Zhisheng, in undated photograph.
Photo courtesy of ChinaAid.
Dissident rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who remains under house arrest since his release from prison in August 2014, has been denied permission by the Chinese police to see a dentist for treatment after losing teeth to torture — for reasons of ‘national security.’
Gao was prevented earlier this week from traveling to Xi’an, Continue reading
Calls Grow to Free Tortured Rights Lawyer Ahead of U.N. Review已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Zhisheng
By Juliana Liu
10 November 2015
The bookshop is marked by a small blue sign, sandwiched between shops selling vitamins and clothing
Image caption
In a frenetic commercial district of Hong Kong, sandwiched between shops selling vitamins and clothing to tourists, the Causeway Bay Bookstore touts itself as the authority on Chinese politics.
The tiny shop specialises in selling gossipy Continue reading
Hong Kong bookstore disappearances shock publishing industry已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Bookstore, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Tongluowan
2015-11-06
Police check the ID cards of netizens at an Internet cafe in Shandong province, July 31, 2013.
ImagineChina
China has compiled a “blacklist” of keywords banned by its complex Internet censorship regime, known as the Great Firewall, and is now seeking to apply them well beyond its physical borders via a domain-name registry based in the United States, according to recent reports.
U.S.-based domain-name registry XYZ.com recently made a deal with the Chinese government requiring it to enforce Beijing’s censorship globally based on a list of Continue reading
China Seeks to Export Censorship to Overseas-Registered Domain Names: Report已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
2015-11-06
Books are shown on display outside Sage Communications bookstore in Hong Kong, Nov. 6, 2015.
Photo courtesy of Sage Communications
Four people linked to a Hong Kong bookstore which has stocked titles highly critical of the ruling Chinese Communist Party have been “delayed,” believed detained by Chinese authorities, while on a visit to Thailand.
Owner Gui Haiming, general manager Lu Bo, store manager Lin Rongji, and staff member Zhang Zhiping of publisher and bookstore company Sage Communications Continue reading
Independent Hong Kong Book-Sellers Missing, Believed Detained已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Book-Sellers, Gui Haiming, Hong Kong
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW NOVEMBER 4, 2015 4:45 PM November 4, 2015 4:45 pm
Fuxian Yi, a medical researcher and father of three who now lives in the United States, said the publication of his book on the mainland was a proud moment.
Fuxian Yi, a medical researcher and father of three who now lives in the United States, said the publication of his book on the mainland was a proud moment.Credit Courtesy of Fuxian Yi
In just six years, Fuxian Yi’s book pleading for an end to the “one child” policy went from banned to promoted by the Chinese government.
The book, “Big Country With an Empty Nest,” a critical look at China’s family-planning policy, was published in Hong Kong in 2007 and promptly banned on the Chinese mainland. But in 2013, a new edition was released by China Development Press, a publisher under the Development Research Continue reading
Book on Family-Planning Policy Is Banned, Then Promoted, by China已关闭评论
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Tagged Banned, Birth-Control, Fuxian Yi
2015-11-05
Chinese activists in exile in Thailand protest outside the China Cultural Center in Bangkok, Nov. 5, 2015.
(Photo courtesy of activists)
Rights groups are calling for the release of two Chinese democracy activists currently held by Thai immigration authorities after seeking political refugee status with the United Nations.
Dong Guangping fled China with his family in September after serving a three-year jail term for subversion from 2001-2004, and being “disappeared” and held for eight months in secret detention in 2014.
Political cartoonist Jiang Yefei had been in Thailand Continue reading
Fears Grow For Chinese Activists Detained by Thai Police已关闭评论
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Tagged Detained, Dong Guangping, Jiang Yefei, Thailand
2015-11-04
Chinese paramilitary police march near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, March 7, 2014.
AFP
A Chinese rights activist from the southern province of Guangdong has died in a police-run detention center, in what his family says are suspicious circumstances.
Zhang Liumao was reported dead by authorities in the Guangzhou No. 3 Detention Center in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but his family has been prevented from viewing his body, they told RFA.
Zhang had been charged with “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” Continue reading
Family Demands Information After Chinese Activist Dies in Police Custody已关闭评论
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Tagged Death, Detained, Zhang Liumao
2015-11-03
Journalists in Hong Kong have hit out at an injunction barring them from broadcasting secret recordings of a meeting of the University of Hong Kong (HKU)’s governing body.
The university applied for the injunction and called on Commercial Radio, which broadcast two secretly made recordings from a meeting of the HKU Council in which some members rejected liberal scholar Johannes Chan as a candidate for a high-ranking managerial post.
The recordings emerged after Chan was rejected for Continue reading
Hong Kong Journalists Slam University’s Injunction as Doubts ‘Deepen’ Over Interference已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Hong Kong University, Journalist, Press Freedom
