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China Clamps Down on Activists Ahead of Lawyers’ Subversion Trial

July 7, 2015 Comments Off

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…)

Chinese Court Pulls Plug on Activists’ Subversion Trial Amid Procedural Dispute With Defense

July 7, 2015 Comments Off

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…)

China Detains Two Activists as NGO Crackdown Widens

July 7, 2015 Comments Off

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…)

China Holds Activist Who Posted Umbrella Selfie on Tiananmen Square on June 4

July 6, 2015 Comments Off

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…)

Dissidents imprisoned on 26th anniversary of Tiananmen Square

July 6, 2015 Comments Off

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…)

Tausende erinnern in Hongkong an Tiananmen-Massaker

June 11, 2015 Comments Off

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…)

Chinese artist who posted funny image of President Xi Jinping facing five years in prison as authorities crackdown on dissent in the arts

June 11, 2015 Comments Off

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…)

Shanghai Artist Dai Jianyong Arrested for Posting Comical Photos of President Xi

June 11, 2015 Comments Off

Originally published by China Topix on May 31, 2015 A Shanghai artist faces up to five years in jail if he is found guilty of “creating a disturbance” for posting a photo online which depicts the comically altered face of Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to The Independent. The beleaguered artist (read more…)

China detains artist for mocking Xi Jinping

June 11, 2015 Comments Off

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…)

Shanghai artist detained after depicting Xi Jinping as Hitler

June 11, 2015 Comments Off

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…)

Chinese president gets moustache, Chinese artist gets arrested

June 11, 2015 Comments Off

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…)

China detains artist who posted humorous photo of president

May 29, 2015 Comments Off

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…)