182. CHEN YONGZHOU (released)

Posted on 08/19/2015 by | 182. CHEN YONGZHOU (released)已关闭评论

Chen YongzhouPenname                      

Sex                               Male

Birth date                1986-08

Birth place               Jiazi Town, Lufeng City, Guangdong Province

Resident place         Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Education                  BA in Humanities at Guangzhou University Continue reading →

182. CHEN YONGZHOU (released)已关闭评论

Posted in China

Tagged , ,

Chinese Rights Websites Hit by Suspected Hacker Attack, Great Firewall Blockade

Posted on 08/18/2015 by | Chinese Rights Websites Hit by Suspected Hacker Attack, Great Firewall Blockade已关闭评论

2015-08-18

A rights and citizen journalism website based in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan said its operations have been paralyzed by a hacker attack on Tuesday, while a second site said its domain name is once more blocked on China’s tightly controlled Internet.

Activist Huang Qi, who founded the Tianwang website, Continue reading →

Chinese Rights Websites Hit by Suspected Hacker Attack, Great Firewall Blockade已关闭评论

Posted in Internet Freedom

Tagged , ,

Jia Jia: You’ve Got Candles, I’ve Got a Whip

Posted on 08/17/2015 by | Jia Jia: You’ve Got Candles, I’ve Got a Whip已关闭评论

Published: August 16, 2015

“Stop lighting your candles. Pick up a leather lash, and flog hard those derelict in their duty who treat human lives like dirt.”

e5a4a9e6b4a5_crater
For the last two nights, seeing candles across my computer screen, I’ve wanted to burst out with curses: So you’ve got candles, but is that all you’ve got? Or are candles the only thing you deserve to have? Facing the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, and all the other disasters which Continue reading →

Jia Jia: You’ve Got Candles, I’ve Got a Whip已关闭评论

Posted in Writers in Prison

Tagged

Interview with a Wenzhou Pastor: The Chinese Government’s Large-Scale Destruction of Crosses in Zhejiang Province

Posted on 08/16/2015 by | Interview with a Wenzhou Pastor: The Chinese Government’s Large-Scale Destruction of Crosses in Zhejiang Province已关闭评论

By Yaxue Cao, published: July 29, 2015

Yaxue spoke with Pastor L in Wenzhou on July 26.

YC: I began paying attention to the demolition of churches and tearing-down of crosses in Zhejiang last year after reading many international media reports on the demolition of the Sanjiang Church (三江教堂) in Wenzhou. Recently there’s been a resurgence of cross-removals, and the daily news items and images of this are quite shocking. It seems the Chinese government is determined to tear down every cross in Zhejiang!

I’ve also read the statements issued both this year and last year Continue reading →

Interview with a Wenzhou Pastor: The Chinese Government’s Large-Scale Destruction of Crosses in Zhejiang Province已关闭评论

Posted in Headlines, Religious Freedom

Tagged , ,

Protests as U.S. Calls For Release of Detained Chinese Rights Lawyers

Posted on 08/16/2015 by | Protests as U.S. Calls For Release of Detained Chinese Rights Lawyers已关闭评论

 

a0c697c5-8ea6-4252-8e69-9ef9951f5d90UPDATED at 11:45 A.M. EST on 2015-08-14

Chinese and U.S. officials wrapped up the last day of bilateral human rights talks in Washington on Friday, following growing calls for a tougher line with Beijing on human rights.

Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington on Thursday in protest at the country’s human rights record, citing a recent crackdown on Continue reading →

Protests as U.S. Calls For Release of Detained Chinese Rights Lawyers已关闭评论

Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison

Tagged , ,

Teasing Out Ai Weiwei’s Endgame, After China Lifts a Travel Ban

Posted on 08/14/2015 by | Teasing Out Ai Weiwei’s Endgame, After China Lifts a Travel Ban已关闭评论

By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW AUGUST 12, 2015 5:00 PM August 12, 2015 5:00 pm
12SINO-LETTER-tmagArticleAi Weiwei in his workshop in Berlin last week, among stools that were featured in his 2014 show “Evidence” at the Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall.Credit Michael Kappeler/European Pressphoto Agency
‘‘Silence, exile and cunning’’ was James Joyce’s formula for the artist to survive in a treacherous world.

The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei seems to be trying something different.

For one thing, Mr. Ai doesn’t want exile, he told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper in Germany, shortly after the Chinese authorities lifted the ban on his travel, Continue reading →

Teasing Out Ai Weiwei’s Endgame, After China Lifts a Travel Ban已关闭评论

Posted in Headlines

Tagged

China Turns Down Parole Bid From Jailed Nobel Peace Laureate

Posted on 08/13/2015 by | China Turns Down Parole Bid From Jailed Nobel Peace Laureate已关闭评论

7f6db1b7-e597-431f-915f-549f12fd2158 (1)
2015-08-13

A portrait of Liu Xiaobo hangs near the empty chair placed in his honor during the ceremony in Oslo, Norway in which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia on Dec. 10, 2010.
AFP

The ruling Chinese Communist Party has denied an application for parole by jailed Chinese Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, a Hong Kong-based rights group reported, as U.S. Continue reading →

China Turns Down Parole Bid From Jailed Nobel Peace Laureate已关闭评论

Posted in Headlines, Support Liu Xiaobo, Writers in Prison

Tagged ,

Chinese Lawyers, Activists Call For a Rights Dialogue With Teeth

Posted on 08/13/2015 by | Chinese Lawyers, Activists Call For a Rights Dialogue With Teeth已关闭评论

a44d083b-c60f-493d-aee3-90ae8ef9d9932015-08-12

A group of Chinese rights lawyers and activists has called on the United States to put pressure on Beijing at this year’s bilateral human rights dialogue in the wake of a nationwide crackdown on the country’s embattled legal profession and a slew of repressive laws. Continue reading →

Chinese Lawyers, Activists Call For a Rights Dialogue With Teeth已关闭评论

Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison

Tagged , ,