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Citizen journalist detained over Wuhan reporting ‘restrained and fed by tube’

December 10, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by The Guardian on December 10, 2020 A citizen journalist detained for more than six months after reporting on the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak has had a feeding tube forcibly inserted and her arms restrained to stop her pulling it out, her lawyer has claimed. Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old (read more…)

China Opens Trial of Veteran Activist on International Human Rights Day

December 10, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by Voice Of America on December 10, 2020 WASHINGTON – China opened the trial of a famous lawyer and veteran legal advocate on Thursday, International Human Rights Day, in a move that rights activists denounced as a show of Beijing’s defiance of human rights and universal values. Chinese (read more…)

China Puts Rights Lawyers, Families Under House Arrest on Human Rights Day

December 10, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on December 10, 2020 Authorities in the Chinese capital have placed a number of prominent rights lawyers and their families under house arrest on Human Rights Day, RFA has learned.Beijing-based rights attorney Li Heping had been planning to take his children to school and (read more…)

Details revealed of secret deal that gave Chinese spies free rein in Switzerland

December 9, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by The Guardian on December 9, 2020 The full text of a secret deal between Switzerland and China that allowed Chinese security officials access to the country at Swiss taxpayers’ expense has been revealed for the first time as the government pushes to renew it. The five-year “readmission (read more…)

Censorship And Imprisonment In China Are Against Covid Citizen Journalists

December 5, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by BizNews on December 5, 2020 A few weeks ago, the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of China issued a statement explaining that 5,797 people had been arrested and 6,755 prosecuted for crimes related to the pandemic . Notable among the cases mentioned was the arrest of a supermarket customer (read more…)

Activist held in China after retweeting ‘ink girl’ video of defaced Xi Jinping poster

December 5, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by HKFP on December 5, 2020 A Chinese activist has been detained by police after voicing his support on Twitter for “ink girl” Dong Yaoqiong, who defaced a poster of leader Xi Jinping in 2018. Police in Zhuzhou city in Hunan province are holding Ou Biaofeng in administrative (read more…)

China’s Landmark Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Mired in Power, Politics

December 4, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on December 4, 2020 A landmark sexual harassment case involving a top Chinese state-run TV personality and a former intern that was inspired by the #MeToo hashtag campaign and the victims of Harvey Weinstein is mired in uncertainty amid an ongoing crackdown on the (read more…)

Chinese dissident who defaced Xi poster says she’s on ‘verge of collapse’

December 2, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by Breitbart on December 2, 2020 Dec. 2 (UPI) — A Chinese woman who said she was forcibly hospitalized twice after defacing a poster of Chinese leader Xi Jinping in 2018 said she is the target of state surveillance and on the brink of a breakdown. Dong Yaoqiong (read more…)

Chinese woman who splashed ink on Xi poster resurfaces

December 2, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by Taiwan News on December 2, 2020 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Video surfaced on Monday (Nov. 30) of a Chinese streamer who disappeared after splashing paint on a poster of Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping (習近平) two years ago, with the woman saying she has been released from a (read more…)

China Runs Trials of Biometric Online ID Card in Two Provinces

November 27, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on November 27, 2020 The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has rolled out an online ID system based on biometrics that is better able to track its citizens’ online activities than the current system, RFA has learned.The Ministry of Public Security is trialing an (read more…)

China Detains Five Prominent Democracy Activists in Guangzhou Crackdown

November 24, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on November 24, 2020 Five prominent democracy activists are being held by state security police in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on subversion charges, rights activists and lawyers told RFA. State security police in Guangdong’s provincial capital Guangzhou detained Fan Yiping, Fan Wencheng, (read more…)

Chinese Citizen Journalist Jailed for Reporting on Coronavirus Situation from Wuhan

November 20, 2020 Comments Off

Originally published by Click Lancashire on November 20, 2020 Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer, has been held in detention since she was arrested in May. She was accused of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble”, an accusation frequently used against critics and activists inside China, after reporting on social (read more…)