Originally published by National Review Online on NOVEMBER 24, 2014 In 1950, the “conservative impulse” expressed itself in “irritable mental gestures,” in Lionel Trilling’s famous phrase. If Trilling’s liberal successors are to be believed, that impulse has come a long way since then — into a full-blown pathology. Consider Michael (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on NOVEMBER 20, 2014 Police in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have formally arrested a third activist on subversion charges after he publicly supported the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement. Wang Mo has been formally arrested on suspicion of “incitement to subvert state power” (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on NOVEMBER 20, 2014 Authorities in the Chinese capital have indicted two prominent rights lawyers on charges related to separatism and subversion, paving the way for an imminent trial, the indicted men’s attorneys said. Gao Guangqing, defense attorney for Beijing-based Pu Zhiqiang, who met (read more…)
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Originally published by Caracol Radio on NOVEMBER 8, 2014 El Gobierno chino ha blindado las calles de Pekín con 28.000 policías, agentes de seguridad y militares, y más de 80.000 voluntarios para que nada altere la cumbre del Foro APEC de los máximos líderes mundiales en la capital, en la que (read more…)
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Originally published by The New American on OCTOBER 28, 2014 A Chinese civil rights monitoring group has issued a report documenting the existence in Communist China of “black jails,” off-the-radar detention centers where potentially thousands of individuals — 80 percent women — who have raised the ire of local officials are (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on NOVEMBER 6, 2014 As the United Nations reviews China’s record in preventing violence against women, the authorities continue to detain and harass outspoken women activists, according to petitioners and rights activists Thursday. Authorities in the central city of Wuhan handed a 10-day administrative sentence (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on OCTOBER 31, 2014 Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Friday detained a prominent women’s rights activist after she organized an online activity in support of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central pro-democracy movement. Ye Haiyan, who founded the Women’s Rights Workshop, was taken away (read more…)
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Originally published by Terra México on OCTOBER 21, 2014 El 80% de las víctimas son mujeres y han estado entre días y hasta seis años encerradas sin derecho a juicio Las habitaciones de hotel o fábricas utilizadas como cárceles ilegales, donde miles de personas -la mayoría mujeres- son cada día torturadas para evitar (read more…)
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Originally published by The Washington Post on OCTOBER 27, 2014 Readers of the print edition of The New York Times on Friday saw a three-column headline on page A12, China Moves to Reinforce Rule of Law. On the facing page were two one-paragraph news briefs that illustrated what “rule of law” really (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on OCTOBER 21, 2014 Eighty percent of people held in China’s unofficial detention centers, or “black jails,” are female, and many suffer routine abuse at the hands of their captors, according to a report published on Tuesday by the overseas-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) group. (read more…)
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Originally published by Indileak on OCTOBER 21, 2014 Beijing: The use of hotels and factories as clandestine prisons where thousands of people — mostly women — are tortured to prevent their complaints against the government from coming to light has rapidly increased in China, an organisation Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) (read more…)
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Originally published by Washington Free Beacon on OCTOBER 24, 2014 Illegal detention facilities mostly house female prisoners, force detainees to receive ‘legal education’ Illegal detention centers known as “black jails” have proliferated in China, according to a new report, even as government officials deny their existence before a United Nations committee this (read more…)
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