Originally published by AFP on May 30, 2015 SHANGHAI — Chinese police have detained an artist for creating an image of Communist leader Xi Jinping with a crinkled face and a moustache, according to a human rights group. Shanghai police held artist and photographer Dai Jianyong, who posted the image online, (read more…)
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Originally published by Shanghaiist on May 28, 2015 A Shanghai-based artist was detained on criminal charges yesterday after publishing an image that some speculate was meant to compare Chinese President Xi Jinping to Adolf Hitler. The photo, which artist Dai Jianyong slapped across t-shirts and Coca-Cola cans, depicts Xi Dada sporting (read more…)
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Originally published by Big News Network on May 28, 2015 Shanghai artist Dai Jianyong has been detained after publishing a humorous image of Chinese President Xi Jinping sporting a moustache, according to Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD). Dai is a photographer known for creating a series of images of what he (read more…)
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Originally published by USA Today on May 28, 2015 BEIJING (AP) — Authorities have detained an obscure Chinese artist after he posted online a humorous portrait of President Xi Jinping, his wife said Thursday. Judy Zhu said police accused her husband, Dai Jianyong, of “creating a disturbance” after detaining him Tuesday near (read more…)
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Originally published by Quartz on May 27, 2015 A Shanghai artist has been detained for comparing Chinese president Xi Jinping to Adolf Hitler as well as an anus. Dai Jianyong, a street photographer best known for making what he calls a “chrysanthemum face“—the flower is a slang term in Chinese for (read more…)
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Originally published by Quartz on May 21, 2015 China’s military says the internet has become its main ideological battlefield and that it should build a “Great Wall” online to protect the country’s citizens from “hostile Western forces.” A strongly worded editorial (link in Chinese) published in the People’s Liberation Army Daily on May said: “If we don’t (read more…)
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Originally published by The Financial Times on May 24, 2015 International human rights groups have slammed China’s new draft national security law for criminalising free speech and religious practices while granting the ruling Communist party sweeping powers to punish peaceful critics and dissenters. The vaguely worded draft law “includes a broad and (read more…)
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Originally published by The Christian Science Monitor on May 15, 2015 Pu Zhiqiang, who was arrested last year, faces charges of inciting hatred and provoking trouble that carry a lengthy prison sentence. He’s among nearly 2,000 political activists detained since President Xi took power in 2012. One of China’s best known and (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on May 6, 2015 Top Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng remains effectively under house arrest, 10 months after his release from prison on subversion charges, his family said on Wednesday. Gao, 52, is currently under 24-hour surveillance by state security police at the home of (read more…)
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Originally published by EL MUNDO on May 2, 2015 “Hola, soy Big Rabbit. He vuelto. Muchas gracias por todo, contactaré con vosotros en cuanto descanse un poco. Gracias”. Con esta declaración, subida a una red social al poco de ser excarcelada, la activista china Zheng Churan agradecía las muestras de apoyo (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on April 30, 2015 Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are moving ahead with the subversion trial of women’s rights activist Su Changlan, who publicly supported Hong Kong’s Occupy Central pro-democracy movement, her husband said on Thursday. Su was detained last October by (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on April 24, 2015 The wife of an online activist detained for subversion in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong after he publicly supported Hong Kong’s Occupy Central pro-democracy movement says she fears for his health and safety as the the authorities look set to prosecute (read more…)
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