China’s New Crimes Will Stifle Public Expression, Erode Channels of Complaint

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2015-11-02
New amendments recently in force to China’s criminal law have added more than 20 crimes to the statute book, including many critics say could further erode freedom of speech and place even more power in the hands of the state.

The amendments, effective Sunday, make it a crime to ‘insult a judge,’ ‘disrupt court order,’ post ‘rumors’ online and cheat in exams, while scaling back the death penalty on some crimes.

New criminal offenses include “fabricating, deliberately Continue reading →

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More Than We Wish to Know: Chen Guangcheng and the Truth about Chinese Human Rights Abuses

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by Arthur Waldron
within Book Reviews, Foreign Affairs

October 30th, 2015

We hear endlessly of “change” and “reform” in China, and the United States has premised its policies on these promises. The memoirs of Chen Guangcheng paint a very different portrait.

Strength—a simple but seemingly superhuman strength of both conscience and body—is the great uniting theme of the story of Chen Guangcheng. Yet his deeply revealing memoirs, titled The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s Fight for Justice and Freedom in China, not only give us a glimpse into Continue reading →

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Ilham Tohti Documentary

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ILHAM TOHTI
A professor at Minzu University in Beijing and the foremost Uighur public intellectual in the People’s Republic of China, he was sentenced to life in prison in September 2014 for advocating basic economic, cultural, religious and political rights for the Uighur people.

Inside:

— Interviews with Ilham Tohti
— Commentaries by Sakharov Prize laureate Hu Jia; Continue reading →

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Germany’s Angela Merkel Meets With Rights Activists, Dissidents During China Trip

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2015-10-30

image (3)Angela Merkel and Xi Jinping speak to reporters in Beijing, Oct. 29, 2015.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel wrapped up a two-day visit to China on Friday after meeting with nine human rights activists and political dissidents.

The Chancellor, who is currently under fire in Europe over her open-border policy on refugees, met with a group that included human rights lawyers, writers, and bloggers at the German Embassy in Beijing on Thursday evening, Bloomberg reported.

They told her that the human rights situation in China Continue reading →

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Author on Trial in China’s Jiangxi Over ‘Brainwashing’ Book

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2015-10-30

84e47fd2-2681-4ce8-8f73-bf15e1d8ed13Author and filmmaker Fu Zhibin is shown in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Independent Chinese PEN Center

A court in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi on Friday wrapped up a one-day trial of an outspoken author and Internet commentator on charges of “running an illegal business,” his lawyer said.

Fu Zhibin, 51, stood trial at the Qingshanhu District People’s Court in the provincial capital Nanchang alongside two unnamed print workers and an assistant.

“We argued that Fu Zhibin is not guilty of running an Continue reading →

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202. CHEN TAIHE (released)

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Chen TaiheSex                               Male

Birth date               19xx-08-22

Birth place              Qiyang County, Hunan Province

Resident place       Guilin City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Continue reading →

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Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Internet

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By James Griffiths, CNN

Updated 0129 GMT (0929 HKT) October 26, 2015

It was a visit he had been dreading for almost six months, since he began working on a tool to help Chinese Internet users get around the vast censorship apparatus known as the Great Firewall.

Crowded inside his apartment in a northern Chinese city, Continue reading →

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China to ‘Strike Hard’ Against Illegal Overseas TV, Internet Content

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Netizens surf the web at an Internet cafe in China’s Zhejiang province in a file photo.
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China’s media regulator on Tuesday issued new rules pledging to crack down on its citizens’ reception of overseas television and Internet content, to protect “national security.”

In a recent directive, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) ordered provincial and regional government, police departments, and judicial agencies at all levels to “strike hard” at any form of illegal television or Internet content and equipment.

It listed 81 content providers offering Continue reading →

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