Originally published by Voice Of America on July 1, 2015 China’s parliament has adopted a sweeping new national security law that critics say will further enshrine and expand the country’s suppression of political dissent. The largely ceremonial National People’s Congress passed the bill Wednesday with 144 yes votes and one abstention, (read more…)
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Originally published by RadioFree Asia on June 25, 2015 Authorities in the central province of Hunan have prevented a prominent poet from leaving the country, saying he isn’t obedient enough to the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Liang Taiping, who lives in the Hunan provincial capital Changsha, had planned to attend (read more…)
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Originally published by Committee to Protect Journalists on June 18, 2015 New York, June 18, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Chinese authorities to immediately release Wang Jing, a journalist who has been imprisoned since December and whose health has deteriorated in custody. Wang’s lawyer, Li Weida, visited the journalist (read more…)
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Originally published by The Gulf Today on June 20, 2015 CAIRO: The leading Muslim seat of learning, Al Azhar, condemned China on Friday for imposing restrictions on fasting in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region during the Holy Month of Ramadan. China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in Xinjiang from (read more…)
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Originally published by Reuters on June 19, 2015 Three Chinese rights activists on trial for distributing books advocating a peaceful end to dictatorships on Friday dismissed their lawyers, bringing a halt to the proceedings. The trial in the southern city of Guangzhou comes as President Xi Jinping’s government has ratcheted (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on June 18, 2015 Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have placed dozens of activists under surveillance after they planned to attend the subversion trial of three prominent rights lawyers on Friday. Tang Jingling, Wang Qingying, and Yuan Xinting, known as the Guangzhou (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on June 19, 2015 Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong called off the trial of three prominent rights activists after they dismissed their defense team amid a procedural dispute with court officials, lawyers said on Friday. Rights lawyer Tang Jingling, former teacher Wang (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on June 15, 2015 Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have detained activists linked to a leading nongovernment organization (NGO) on charges of “illegal business activity,” in a move which fellow activists and rights groups said is linked to a growing civil society (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on June 9, 2015 Authorities in the Chinese capital are holding an activist on public order charges after he raised a black umbrella on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 military crackdown on the student-led democracy movement, activists said. Du (read more…)
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Originally published by The Washington Free Beacon on June 5, 2015 Original participants in China’s pro-democracy movement in 1989 are back in prison on the 26th anniversary of the government’s brutal suppression of those protests, a stark reminder that the ruling Communist Party continues to repress dissidents, activists say. On June 4, (read more…)
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Originally published by Deutsche Welle on June 4, 2015 Etwa 135.000 Menschen kamen im Victoria Park im Zentrum Hongkongs zusammen, um schweigend der Opfer des Massakers auf dem Tiananmen, dem “Platz des Himmlischen Friedens”, in Peking zugedenken. Der Park wurde zu einem Meer aus Kerzen. Die frühere britische Kronkolonie Hongkong, (read more…)
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Originally published by The Independent on May 28, 2015 A Shanghai-based artist has been detained for depicting President Xi Jinping pulling a funny face and sporting a large moustache, seemingly the latest episode in Chinese authorities’ crackdown on dissent in the arts. Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), the advocacy group, said (read more…)
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