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China news round-up: Court to rule on Bo Xilai’s appeal, Beijing plans discounted ‘self-use’ homes

October 28, 2013 Comments Off

Originally published by SCMP on October 25, 2013 Politics Wall Street Journal Beijing’s new housing program will supply 20,000 “self-use” homes meant for the owner to live in, rather than to hold as an investment by the end of the year, another 50,000 next year. China Human Rights Defenders List of the (read more…)

China’s Media Ban on Reporting of State Secrets ‘Too Vague’

July 15, 2014 Comments Off

Originally published by RFA on July 10, 2014 Recent rules issued by China’s top media regulator to formalize a ban on the reporting of state secrets by the country’s tightly controlled media are too vague to be useful to journalists, and will instead leave them vulnerable to individual interpretations, analysts said (read more…)

Chinese Writer’s Lot: Home Ransacked (again) and Detained (again)

October 28, 2013 Comments Off

Originally published by Epoch Times on October 23, 2013 Lü Gengsong, a Chinese writer and advocate for political reform and democracy in China, was taken away by six security officers who forced their way into his home and ransacked it on the afternoon of Oct. 23, without providing any explanation (read more…)

China Offers Funding But Little Compromise At UN Rights Session

October 28, 2013 Comments Off

Originally published by London South East on October 22, 2013 GENEVA (Alliance News) – China vowed to significantly increase its funding of UN human rights work, but did not budge on domestic civil rights issues at a UN review of its human rights situation on Tuesday in Geneva. At the (read more…)

China charges seven activists after Tiananmen memorial, say rights groups

July 9, 2014 Comments Off

Originally published by AFP on July 4, 2014 BEIJING, July 4 — Chinese police have charged seven activists who held a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, rights groups said today.The activists were formally accused yesterday of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” in (read more…)

Chinese billionaire arrested for crossing ‘red line’ of political activism

October 28, 2013 Comments Off

Originally published by NBC News on October 21, 2013 By Eric Baculinao, NBC News Producer BEIJING – In a crackdown on dissent ahead of a crucial Communist Party gathering next month, Chinese authorities on Sunday formally arrested a billionaire venture capitalist who has turned his wealth toward supporting human rights issues. The (read more…)

Lawyer Held, Activists Questioned Over Tiananmen Seminar

May 26, 2014 Comments Off

Originally published by RFA on May 6, 2014 Chinese authorities have detained a top rights lawyer and questioned dozens of activists and family members of victims of the 1989 military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square student-led pro-democracy movement after they held a seminar to mark the sensitive 25th anniversary. The (read more…)

China: Detained to Death

May 20, 2014 Comments Off

Originally published by The New York Review of Books on May 15, 2014 Renee Xia and Perry Link Chinese Human Rights DefendersChinese legal rights activist Cao Shunli (1961–2014) On May 3, fifteen Beijing citizens—scholars, journalists, and rights lawyers—gathered informally at the home of Professor Hao Jian of the Beijing Film Academy to (read more…)

Jiangxi Child Sex Abuse Case Gets Retrial

October 22, 2013 Comments Off

The parents of seven schoolgirls sexually abused by a teacher in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi have succeeded in getting their case heard again by a local court, following a petitioning trip to Beijing last month.

Lawyer Charged After Trying to Defend June 4 Commemorators

July 7, 2014 Comments Off

Originally published by The New York Times (blog) on July 7, 2014 A meeting on May 3 in Beijing to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement led to the detentions of several participants and criminal charges against a prominent lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, in events widely reported abroad and spoken of, (read more…)

China Formally Arrests Graft-Busting Journalist in Crackdown

October 15, 2013 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on October 10, 2013 Authorities in the Chinese capital have formally arrested a whistleblowing journalist amid a wave of detentions linked to online “rumors” and nationwide calls for greater transparency. Liu Hu, a reporter with Guangzhou’s Modern Express newspaper who had exposed official corruption in his hometown of (read more…)

China Targets Moderate Democracy Activist

July 7, 2014 Comments Off

Originally published by The Weekly Standard on July 2, 2014 In a 2007 article in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, “Let a Hundred Flowers Be Crushed,” the Chinese lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, told of being followed by security agents every year around the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 massacre of democracy protesters. Pu responded by ushering the (read more…)