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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Originally published by AFP on April 24, 2015 A Chinese court on Friday commuted the death sentence of a woman who killed her abusive husband, her lawyer told AFP, with a rights group labelling the move a “landmark verdict”. The case of Li Yan, who in 2010 beat to death her (read more…)
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Originally published by Latin American Herald Tribune on May 1, 2015 BEIJING – A Chinese court on Friday gave a suspended death sentence, which can be transmuted to a life sentence if the prisoner shows good conduct, to Li Yan, a domestic violence victim who killed her husband. Since her arrest, (read more…)
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Originally published by Big News Network on April 24, 2015 Beijing, April 24 (IANS): A Chinese court on Friday gave a suspended death sentence, which can be commuted to a life sentence if the prisoner shows good conduct, to Li Yan, a domestic violence victim who killed her husband, Efe news (read more…)
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Originally published by Telegraph on April 17 A veteran Chinese journalist has been sentenced to seven years in prison for “leaking state secrets” in what activists described as the latest chapter in an unyielding Communist Party offensive against its opponents. Gao Yu, a 71-year-old writer who has spent decades chronicling Chinese (read more…)
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