Demonstrators hold placards showing portraits of Chinese journalist Gao Yu during a protest in support of her outside the China liaison office in Hong Kong, April 17, 2015.
Authorities in the Chinese capital have effectively denied permission to veteran journalist Gao Yu to go to Germany for medical treatment, even though she is being allowed to serve her sentence outside of jail. Continue reading
China Denies Gao Yu Permission to Leave For Germany已关闭评论
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FILE – Pictures of jailed veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu are displayed by protesters outside Chinese central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong.
November 26, 2015 1:50 AM
Chinese authorities have released on medical leave a 71-year-old journalist imprisoned on charges of leaking state secrets.
State media reported the development Continue reading
China Releases 71-Year-Old Journalist from Prison已关闭评论
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26 November 2015
Update #3 to RAN 09/14
PEN International is deeply disappointed by the Beijing high court’s decision of 26 November 2015 not to overturn veteran journalist Gao Yu’s conviction for ‘leaking state secrets abroad’. Following a closed hearing held on 24 November, the court ruled to reduce her sentence to five years. PEN continues to condemn her conviction and sentence, and calls for her immediate and unconditional release. Nonetheless, PEN welcomes reports that Gao Yu is due to serve the remainder of her sentence under house arrest due to concerns for her deteriorating health and strongly urges the Chinese authorities to ensure that Gao Yu is afforded adequate medical care. Continue reading
China: Conviction of veteran journalist Gao Yu upheld on appeal已关闭评论
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2015-11-23
Guo Feixiong in a file photo.
Photo courtesy of Guo Feixiong
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are expected to announce the verdict in the long-delayed case of a prominent human rights activist later this week after holding him in conditions described by his family as ‘slow torture,’ his lawyer said on Monday.
Yang Maodong, better known by his pseudonym Guo Feixiong, will attend a verdict hearing in the provincial capital Guangzhou along with two co-defendants on Friday.
Guo is awaiting the verdict on charges of “gathering a Continue reading
Chinese Court to Pass Verdict on Guo Feixiong, Two Others已关闭评论
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Ms Gao, seen here in a 2007 file picture, is a well-known investigative journalist
A Chinese court has upheld a guilty verdict against a senior journalist accused of leaking state secrets, her lawyer said.
Gao Yu did, however, receive a reduced sentence from seven years to five years in prison.
Ms Gao, who is 71, was found guilty last April and appealed her Continue reading
Gao Yu: Court upholds verdict for jailed Chinese journalist已关闭评论
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2015-10-13
A file photo of Chinese journalist Gao Yu speaking at a press conference in Hong Kong.
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A lawyer for jailed Chinese journalist Gao Yu on Tuesday warned of her deteriorating health in prison after she received emergency treatment for a heart attack earlier this month.
Lawyer Shang Baojun visited Gao in a Beijing detention Continue reading
Concerns Grow For Jailed Chinese Journalist Gao Yu After Illness已关闭评论
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Published: October 1, 2015
“Why would the results of a poll conducted by a neutral, respected polling organization tally so closely with the propaganda of a totalitarian government?”
Can it be that 92.8% of Chinese poll respondents are truly satisfied with the Chinese central government, and that among these, 37.6% are “extremely satisfied”? For over a decade, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Continue reading
Chang Ping: We’d Be Satisfied With Any Government!已关闭评论
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Tagged Chang Ping, Gao Yu, Ilham Tohti, Liu Xiaobo, Xu Zhiyong
By EDWARD WONG SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 5:04 AM September 18, 2015 5:04 am
A photograph of Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace laureate, at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. In 2009, he was charged with “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced to 11 years in prison.Credit Espen Rasmussen for The New York Times
For them, pens and laptops are the tools of their trade and their megaphones to the world. Among their ranks are some of the best-known chroniclers of American society and Continue reading
PEN Appeals to Xi Jinping for Release of Imprisoned Chinese已关闭评论
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Tagged America, Gao Yu, Liu Xia, Liu Xiaobo, PEN, Release, Writer
