By Wang Yaqiu, published: June 4, 2015
Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波)
LIU XIAOBO IN 1989, SECOND FROM RIGHT.
In the spring of 1989, Dr. Liu Xiaobo left Columbia University where he was a visiting scholar and went back to Beijing to take part in the democracy movement. In Tiananmen Square, he became a leader and a mentor, drafting open letters, giving speeches and leading a hunger strike. Continue reading
The Torchbearers – Participants in the 1989 Democracy Movement Who Are Currently in Prison已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged June 4th, Liu Xiaobo, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
By Liao Yiwu, translated by Cindy Carter, published: May 24, 2015
My friend Chen Yunfei (陈云飞) has never been of a serious disposition; his mode of dress is, if anything, even less serious. One year on June 4th, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, he was clad from the waist up in a suit and tie, and from the waist down in a pair of short Continue reading
Liao Yiwu: Tamer of Beasts, Tamer of Despots已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Chen Yunfei, June 4th, Liao Yiwu, Tiananmen
2015-06-25
Chai Huiqun during a reporting assignment in an undated photo.
(Photo courtesy of Chai Huiqun)
A journalist for a cutting-edge newspaper is waging a Continue reading
Southern Weekend Journalist Sues Chinese Doctors’ Association Over ‘Fake Report’ Claim已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Chai Huiqun, Journalist, Southern Weekend
2015
-06-25
Authorities in the central province of Hunan have prevented a prominent poet from leaving the country, saying he isn’t obedient enough to the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
Liang Taiping, who lives in the Hunan provincial capital Changsha, Continue reading
China Slaps Travel Ban on Nuclear Researcher-Turned-Poet Activist已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Liang Taiping, Poet
Translated by Matthew Robertson, June 2, 2015
“What we need to grasp is that the existence of a political system that is so perverse in its reason, and so unfair and unjust to its subjects, is an open taunt to the conscience and sense of justice of humanity. The international rise of that system, too, is perforce a threat to freedom and world peace.”
REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR, THIS PHOTO IS FROM A PERSONAL COLLECTION. HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/ZHOUFENGSUO/STATUS/602473738148257794
Twenty-six years ago in China, Continue reading
Hu Ping: How the Tiananmen Massacre Changed China, and the World已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Title: Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award
Awardee: one or two individual annually;
Candidacy: Anyone in the case list of Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN who is still imprisoned or released under legal restriction of the right to freedom of expression, such as “deprivation of political rights”;
Nominator: Three individuals, or a PEN centre;
Nomination period: Starting on 23 June, anniversary of Liu Xiaobo’s formal arrest and ending on 8 October;
Date to announce the awardee: Writers in Prison Day on 15 November;
Awarding Items: a certificate or trophy, prize check and awarding statement.
Prize: 2000 US dollars;
Nomination must be written in English or Chinese and should include the followings,
1. The nominee’s full name
2. Description of the nominee’s achievements, Continue reading
Announcement of Nomination for 2015 Liu Xiaobo Courage to Write Award of Independent Chinese PEN Center已关闭评论
Posted in ICPC News, Writers in Prison
Tagged Courage to Write Award
By Deng Chuanbin (邓传彬), published: June 11, 2015
DENG CHUANBIN.
On May 30, 2015, I returned to my parents’ home at Peishi Township, Nanpei District, Yibing municipality in Sichuan province (四川省宜宾市南溪区裴石乡). My plan was to celebrate my mother’s 66th birthday on May 31, and attended my daughter’s singing competition in school and videotape it.
Around 9 pm on May 30, someone downstairs called out Continue reading
Activist Interrogated and Prevented from Attending Human Rights Training in Geneva已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Deng Chuanbin, NGO, Yirenping
2015-06-22
Dozens of tents remain on Tim Mei Avenue next to the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, June 21, 2015.
RFA
Authorities in Hong Kong handed an eviction notice to a group of die-hard Umbrella Movement protesters on Monday, following the defeat of a Beijing-backed political Continue reading
Last Occupy Central Die-Hards Face Eviction From Hong Kong Street已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
