Originally published by Bloombergon April 18, 2014 China sentenced four activists linked to a movement that sought to promote citizens’ rights to jail for disturbing the public order, a court in Beijing said. Ding Jiaxi was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, the longest sentence of the group, a (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on April 18, 2014 A Chinese court sentenced four anti-corruption activists to prison on Friday, closing another chapter in a protracted crackdown on dissent. The four belonged to the New Citizens Movement, a loose-knit grassroots organisation known for holding small dinner parties to discuss political (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asia on September 26, 2013 China’s hidden household income—otherwise known as its “gray economy”—has topped 6.2 trillion yuan (U.S.$1 trillion) or about 12 percent of the world’s most populous nation’s economic output, a new report says, indicating a widening wealth gap fueled by corruption. The state-backed China Reform (read more…)
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Originally published byRadio Free Asia on September 25, 2013 The parents of seven schoolgirls abused by a teacher in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi have called for a meeting with the Ministry of Education to discuss compensation. Speaking on a trip to petition the ministry in Beijing, one of the parents (read more…)
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China’s Communist party leadership concluded an important agenda-setting meeting in Beijing on November 12. At this point much remains unclear about the decisions made at the Third Plenum of the 18th Communist Party Central Committee conclave, including changes to the One China policy, market reforms, and the abolition of the (read more…)
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Originally published by Human Rights Watch on September 24, 2013 (New York) – The Chinese government should immediately release Cao Shunli, a Beijing-based activist who has been forcibly disappeared since September 14, 2013, Human Rights Watch said today. She has not been heard from since she was questioned and barred from boarding a flight to Geneva (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asias on September 19, 2013 Chinese authorities have formally arrested or sentenced a number of anti-graft and human rights activists on the eve of the traditional mid-autumn moon festival, rights groups said on Thursday. Authorities in the central province of Hubei formally arrested Liu Jiacai, an activist (read more…)
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China’s planned easing of its controversial one-child policy will allow several million couples, especially in urban areas, to have a second child.
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Originally published by Radio Free Asias on September 18, 2013 Chinese authorities have detained two prominent rights activists who were en route to Geneva ahead of a U.N. review of Beijing’s rights record, and are questioning two more on suspicion of subversion after they campaigned against China’s application to join a U.N. (read more…)
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Originally published by Radio Free Asias on September 10, 2013 Amid a nationwide crackdown on “false” online information, authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong have cut off the Internet service of the brother of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng after he traveled to Shanghai to meet with other activists. Chen (read more…)
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China celebrates its membership of the UN Human Rights Council. Elsewhere, reactions are mixed.
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Originally published by Businessweek on September 12, 2013 Chinese officials probably don’t care much about irony. The latest example came today in Beijing. At the same time China’s Internet censors are intensifying a crackdown on bloggers and other online activity, delegates convened in the capital for a two-day forum on human rights. The official (read more…)
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