By Tom Phillips
Friday 15 April 2016 07.39 BST
Ge Yongxi, a known defender of activists and church leaders, taken into custody after posting messages on WeChat account
Ge Yongxi was taken from his home by five plain-clothes police officers, according to his lawyer and activists. Photograph: Facebook
A well-known Chinese civil rights lawyer has been taken into police custody after sharing information about the Panama Papers on social media, human rights groups have said. Continue reading
Panama Papers: China detains lawyer after he shares details of leaders online已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, Ge Yongxi, Lawyer, Panama Papers, WeChat
Identity documents from the Panama Papers. Clockwise from top left: Patrick Henri Devillers, Jia Liqing, Hu Dehua, Deng Jiagui and Li Xiaolin.
China’s Internet censors deleted a favorable blog post analyzing the links between relatives of the country’s president, Xi Jinping, and papers leaked from the Panama-based Mossack Fonseca law firm. Continue reading
China Issues, Deletes Article Defending President Over Panama Papers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged 12th-Century, censorship, Mossack Fonseca, offshore shell companies, Panama Papers, Xi Jinping
Identity documents from the Panama Papers. Clockwise from top left: Patrick Henri Devillers, Jia Liqing, Hu Dehua, Deng Jiagui and Li Xiaolin. ICIJ
As more details emerge from the Panama Papers, Chinese censors are fighting to ensure the top-down deletion of information that details how Chinese high-ranking political and financial elites managed and hid their wealth offshore. Continue reading
Censors Shift into Overdrive in an Attempt to Erase the Panama Papers in China已关闭评论
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Tagged censorship, Panama Papers
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei gestures during a daily briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing, April 5, 2016.
BEIJING—China has moved quickly to silence any discussion about the Panama Papers and information about the use of tax havens by the families of at least eight current and former top leaders, including the brother-in-law of President Xi Jinping. Continue reading
Panama Papers Hit Great Firewall of China已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged censorship, Panama Papers, Xi Jinping
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks with media in a press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani after their meeting at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Two weeks after China’s President toured state media offices and called for absolute loyalty from the press, a website with links to the government published an explosive letter asking him to resign “for the future of the country and the people.” Continue reading
Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi’s resignation已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom, Press Freedom
Tagged Caixin, censorship, Media, open letter, Ren Zhiqiang, resignation, Xi Jinping, Zhou Fang
Weeks after Xi Jinping demanded loyalty from media, Caixin claims it was ordered to remove interview on free speech
Xi Jinping visiting China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing on 19 February, where he demanded absolute loyalty from Chinese media. Photograph: Ma Zhancheng/AP
Chinese magazine challenges government over censorship已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Caixin, censorship, Hu Shuli, Jiang Hong, Media, Xi Jinping
Case comes after controversy caused by the disappearance of five booksellers in Hong Kong in an apparent crackdown on the sale of works critical of China’s government
Jun Mai, [email protected]
Yuan Yulai is well known for this legal battles against government departments. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Yuan Yulai, 61, known for high-profile cases has he brought against government departments and ministries, filed the lawsuit in Zhejiang province on Monday. Continue reading
Chinese rights lawyer takes legal action after Hong Kong, Taiwan-published books seized已关闭评论
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Tagged bookseller, censorship, Gui Minhai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Yuan Yulai
Actor Sun Haiying’s Weibo shortly before it was shuttered.
December 14, 2014, Red Flag Manuscript published an article by Li Yanyan (李艳艳 – whom it identified as “with the Humanities division of Beijing Union University” – 北京联合大学) entitled “Some Tendencies That Must Be Addressed In Order to Safeguard Weibo’s Ideological Security” ( 维护微博意识形态安全必须纠正的几种倾向). Some excerpts: Continue reading
A Chronology of Actor Sun Haiying’s Ban From China’s Social Media已关闭评论
Posted in Culture, Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged Ban, censorship, Sun Haiying, Weibo
