Originally published by Associated Press on June 4, 2019 It was a Friday evening in May in the Nanxi district of Yippin, a Chinese city of around 4.5 million people, when Deng Chuanbin posted a picture of a bottle of wine on Twitter. The bottle’s label featured the word “ba (read more…)
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Originally published by The New York Times on June 4, 2019 BEIJING — Thirty years after Chinese soldiers killed hundreds, possibly thousands, of demonstrators in Beijing and other cities, memories of the violence remain fraught, with China detaining activists, tightening censorship and denouncing calls for a full accounting of the (read more…)
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Originally published by Associated Press on June 1, 2019 BEIJING (AP) — It has been three months since Chinese rock musician Li Zhi disappeared from public view. First, an upcoming tour was canceled and his social media accounts were taken down. Then his music was removed from all of China’s (read more…)
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Originally published by Sunday Independent on June 2, 2019 China has reportedly detained or threatened dozens of people as part of a “wave of persecution” targeting those seeking to commemorate the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Tuesday will be the 30th anniversary of the infamous crackdown, which saw the (read more…)
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Originally published by The Telegraph on June 1, 2019 Tucked away on the tenth floor of a Hong Kong commercial building sits the world’s only museum commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, the peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations shut down after Chinese soldiers opened fire on thousands. The 100-square-metre room is a (read more…)
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Originally published by The Independent on May 31, 2019 China has reportedly detained or threatened dozens of people as part of a “wave of persecution” targeting those seeking to commemorate the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Tuesday will be the 30th anniversary of the infamous crackdown, which saw the Chinese army (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on May 30, 2019 Chinese authorities have detained dozens of people as part of a ramped-up annual crackdown ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Tuesday will mark 30 years since the bloody event, which saw Chinese authorities brutally shut down long running student (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on May 30, 2019 Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui have deprived aprominent dissident of sleep, toilet access and food following his detention ahead of a politically sensitive massacre anniversary.Former Anhui state prosecutor Shen Liangqing disappeared on May 15, less than a month before the (read more…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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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…)
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