Originally published by Deutsche Welle on May 1, 2020 A Chinese journalist has been jailed for 15 years after being accused of attacking and vilifying the Communist Party, court documents showed. According to a statement posted online from Hunan province’s Guiyang County Court, Chen Jieren was convicted on Thursday for (read more…)
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Originally published by Het Parool on May 1, 2020 Chen Jieren werd door justitie in de provincie Hunan veroordeeld wegens ‘provocatie en het veroorzaken van moeilijkheden, afpersing, illegale bedrijfsvoering en omkoping’. Ook kreeg hij een boete van 7 miljoen yuan (ongeveer 900.000 euro). De organisatie Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) riep Peking (read more…)
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Originally published by AFP on May 1, 2020 Um jornalista chinês acusado de “denegrir” o Partido Comunista e o governo foi condenado a 15 anos de prisão, anunciou um tribunal em comunicado. É uma das sentenças mais severas contra uma pessoa crítica ao governo do presidente Xi Jinping, alvo de (read more…)
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Originally published by Vijesti on May 1, 2020 Čen i nekoliko njegovih članova porodice uhapšeni su u ljeto 2018. godine, odmah po emitovanju na njegovom sajtu nekoliko tekstova u kojima su lokalni zvaničnici optuženi za korupciju Kineski novinar i bloger Čen Đeren, koji je prema pravosuđu kritikovao Komunističku partiju na (read more…)
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Originally published by TV8 on May 1, 2020 Un jurnalist chinez, care – potrivit justiţiei – a denigrat atât Partidul Comunist, la putere, cât şi guvernul, a fost condamnat la 15 ani de închisoare, potrivit Digi24. Bloggerul Chen Jieren, fost angajat al Ziarul Poporului, a fost condamnat joi. Jurnalistul a fost (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on April 24, 2020 Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei have formally arrested a woman on public order charges after she organized local people to protest against price-gouging on essential goods during the coronavirus lockdown.Police in Hubei’s Yingcheng city formally arrested Zeng Chunzhi on suspicion of (read more…)
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Originally published by The Economic Times on April 21, 2020 NEW DELHI: Chinese authorities have been allegedly harassing lawyers and activists who are speaking about coronavirus outbreak and its management.A “cynical and orchestrated” campaign by the Chinese authorities to stop the country’s 1.4 billion citizens from even discussing the COVID-19 (read more…)
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Originally published Daily Mail on April 18, 2020 The fearsome knock on the door came after nightfall. Outside were two men in hazmat suits who told businessman Fang Bin they had come to take him into medical quarantine. But the textile trader, a gangly man in his early 40s, wasn’t (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on April 10, 2020 A lawyer in the central Chinese province of Henan who was disciplined for writing on social media about the number of dead bodies being cremated in the central city of Wuhan has abandoned her appeal against the sanction.Liu Yingying became (read more…)
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Originally published by Byline Times on April 7, 2020 Taking personal information from social media accounts, stepping up facial recognition and collecting biometric data without consent are just a few of the ways in which governments around the world are taking surveillance to a whole new level. Although, in some democratic (read more…)
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Originally published by Express on April 5, 2020 Beijing is cracking down on those who challenged the official propaganda that president Xi Jinping had handled the outbreak with transparency and expertise. Many people from Wuhan have expressed their anger at the central government’s negligence, especially after the death of the (read more…)
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Originally published by VOA on April 2, 2020 WASHINGTON – It was a familiar phone number, from secret police officer Sun. “Where are you? Send me a GPS location,” said Sun, a member of the guobao, an arm of China’s domestic security force tasked with monitoring dissidents and keeping them in line, said. Gao Fei, 32, a native of Huanggang, Hubei province, was a welder in Guangdong province. He got in trouble and met Sun (read more…)
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