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China Jails Writer For Five Days Over Comments About First Lady

Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan

China’s President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrive in Moscow on March 22, 2013.

A writer in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has been locked up for five days by police for criticizing China’s first lady, his lawyer said on Friday. Continue reading

Case of Chinese Free Speech Activist ‘The Butcher’ Moved to Tianjian

Wu Gan

Wu Gan stages protest outside Jiangxi High Court, May 19, 2015. Boxun

Authorities in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian have transferred the subversion case of a prominent free speech activist known as “the Butcher” to the northern port city of Tianjin, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Continue reading