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China detains activists, mutes livestreams ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

June 19, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by AFP on May 31, 2019 Chinese authorities have detained several activists ahead of the politically explosive 30th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown of Tiananmen protests, rights groups said Thursday. Discussions of the 1989 pro-democracy protests and its military suppression are taboo in China, and authorities have rounded (read more…)

Saudi-China relations and beyond

June 16, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Daily Sabah on May 30, 2019 Saudi Arabia has chosen to ignore the persecution of the Uighurs and opted for appeasing China to maintain strong economic ties rather than standing together with the Muslim world Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s recent trip to China has caused (read more…)

RSF Urges China To Release Journalist Reporting On Political Prisoners

June 14, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by RSF News on May 25, 2019 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of Ma Xiao, a Chinese citizen-journalist who published a series of political prisoners’ interviews and has been detained for a month. Beijing-based citizen-journalist Xie Qiang, known under the pen name of Ma Xiao, (read more…)

Chinese Authorities Have Detained an Activist Filmmaker for Posting a Picture Referencing the Tiananmen Square Massacre

June 12, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Artnet news on May 22, 2019 Chinese authorities have detained Deng Chuanbin, an independent filmmaker and activist also known as Huang Huang, for tweeting a photo alluding to the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. Early on the morning of May 17, just hours after posting the photo, authorities arrived (read more…)

The U.S. Empire Wants Us to Hate and Fear China’s Government

June 12, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by The Ghion Journal on May 15, 2019 Americans are being manipulated by a campaign to make us consent to what’s effectively a paradigm of constant war with China. It’s not a clearcut case of preparing the public for a direct military invasion against the targeted country, as (read more…)

Tiananmen Square: China steps up curbs on activists for 30th anniversary

May 15, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by The Guardian on May 9, 2019 Every year in late May, Hu Jia is taken on a mandatory holiday to Qinhuangdao, a port city almost 200 miles from his home in Beijing. He is accompanied by police on walks in the park or by the sea and (read more…)

Chinese Writer, Rights Activist Incommunicado, Believed Detained

May 12, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on May 6, 2019 Chinese writer and rights activist Xie Qiang, who signed a 2008 charter calling for sweeping political reform, is incommunicado, believed detained, after receiving an unexpected phone call from police, his friends said. Xie, who is better known by his pen-name (read more…)

Taiwan Rights Groups Call on Beijing to Allow Visits to Jailed Rights Lawyer

May 2, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on May 1, 2019 Rights activists and politicians in Taiwan have called on authorities in China to allow jailed rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang visits from his family and his lawyer, warning that his case should act as a “big red flag” to the people of Taiwan.Wang’s wife (read more…)

China Holds Vaccine Parent-Turned-Activist Detained At Beijing Protest

March 30, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on March 26, 2019 Authorities in China are holding a prominent parent campaigner undercriminal detention after she helped to organized protests over faultyvaccines last month.He Fangmei, the mother of a baby made sick by a faulty vaccine, wasinitially detained by police from her home (read more…)

State Dept.: 800K to 2 Million Muslims Forced Into ‘Internment Camps’ in Communist China

March 22, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by CNS News on March 19, 2019 (CNSNews.com) — The U.S. State Department, echoing reports by human rights groups and some news media, reported that between 800,000 and 2 million Muslims have been forced into “internment camps” in Communist China where they are reeducated “to erase religious and ethnic (read more…)

Concerns Grow Over Chinese Influence at UN Human Rights Council

March 20, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on March 15, 2019 Rights activists are increasingly worried that Beijing’s influence operations are having a negative impact on the work of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which concludes its 40th session on Friday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) China director Sophie Richardson warned (read more…)

UN Calls For Probe Into Activist’s Death As Beijing Rejects Rights Report

March 20, 2019 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on March 14, 2019 Experts at the United Nations have called on Beijing to launch an independent investigation into the death of a Chinese human rights activist in a police detention center five years ago, as Beijing faces growing pressure over international criticism of (read more…)