2015-04-07
Activist Chen Yunfei leads a protest against alleged pollution at a petrochemical plant in Pengzhou, in Sichuan province, March 6, 2015. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have formally detained a prominent rights activist on subversion Continue reading
China Formally Detains Sichuan Activist For ‘Subversion’ After Tiananmen Memorial Visit已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Chen Yunfei, June 4th, Tiananmen
By JACK CHANG and ISOLDA MORILLO
Mar. 11, 2015 10:23 PM EDT
In this photo taken Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, Xu Xing talks about his documentary film work at home in… Read more
BEIJING (AP) — In his small ground-floor apartment just a few blocks from Beijing’s landmark Bird’s Nest stadium, Chinese language teacher, writer and do-it-yourself documentary maker Xu Xing is urgently preserving what he can of China’s forbidden past.
Traveling usually by himself Continue reading
Secret historians preserve past in China amid state amnesia已关闭评论
Posted in History, June 4th Commemoration
By China Change, published: January 12, 2015
Shortly before June 4th, 2014, ten in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, were arrested for holding a public memorial for Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳). Seven of them have since been released, Continue reading
Prominent 1989ers Voice Support for Yu Shiwen, Detained for Commemorating the Tiananmen Movement已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged June 4th, Tiananmen, Yu Shiwen, Zhao Ziyang
BY SUI-LEE WEE AND MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN
BEIJING Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:00am EST
Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in Beijing in this July 20, 2012 picture.
CREDIT: REUTERS/PETAR KUJUNDZIC
(Reuters) – Chinese prosecutors could upgrade the charges against a Continue reading
Prominent China rights lawyer could face harsher charges: attorney已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
Human rights fears grow as Gao Yu, 70, faces life sentence, while jailed Uighur scholar’s appeal is turned down
Chinese journalist Gao Yu in 2012. State media have said she is accused of leaking an internal Communist party document to foreigners. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP
Tania Branigan in Beijing
Friday 21 November 2014 09.30 EST
China has tried a veteran journalist for revealing state secrets and Continue reading
Chinese journalist charged with handing over state secrets已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Activist attorney Pu Zhiqiang is accused of a total of four offences as investigators hand his case to prosecutors in next step towards trial
PUBLISHED : Friday, 21 November, 2014, 3:08am UPDATED : Friday, 21 November, 2014, 9:34am
Verna Yu
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Beijing police had handed over the case of human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang to Continue reading
Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang faces more charges as police hand case to prosecutors已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
Gao Yu, an outspoken liberal journalist, denies charges as she goes on trial in Beijing
Gao Yu was arrested in April and charged with feeding a secret document to ‘an overseas website’ Photo: AFP
Malcolm Moore By Malcolm Moore, Beijing10:09AM GMT 21 Nov 2014
A prominent liberal Chinese journalist has denied that she “leaked state secrets” during a four-hour trial in Beijing. Continue reading
Chinese journalist Gao Yu faces life sentence for leaking state secrets已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
The Chinese-born Australian artist on the day he was detained and later deported from Beijing for daring to make art about China today
• Guo Jian: detained for refusing to abide by mass amnesia of Tiananmen Continue reading
Guo Jian on his Tiananmen Square stand: ‘I’m so proud of what I did’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
