Czech Venue Pushes Back Against Pressure from China to Cancel Badiucao’s Cartoons
Hao Hong said they were calling on the order of the Chinese embassy, and accused Badiucao’s work of “smearing the image of China’s leaders” and “hurting the feelings of the Chinese people” and warned that the exhibition would “destroy the relationship between the two countries.”
To This City, To That Person
The rights defense movement was an attempt to advance the rule of law through individual cases, but under the iron fist of the Leninist Party it was reduced to a fantasy. As public space has shrunk and the spirit of freedom atrophied, Hong Kong has given rare hope and strength to those of us still in the fight. Now this source of warmth and light is inevitably being snuffed out.
China: RSF Urges for Release of Ailing Covid-19 Reporter Zhang Zhan on the One-year Anniversary of her Sentence
Kunchok Jinpa, a leading source of information about Tibet for journalists, died in February 2021 as a result of mistreatment in detention. Nobel Peace Prize and RSF Press Freedom Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and dissident blogger Yang Tongyan both died in 2017 from cancer that was left untreated in detention.
China: RSF Urges for Release of Covid-19 Reporter Who Faces Impending Death
Zhang Zhan, a Chinese journalist who covered the first weeks of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, was sentenced to four years in prison for ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ by the Shanghai Pudong New Area Court in December 2020.
Activists Remember Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo, Four Years After His Death
“There are still a lot of people around who have absorbed his influence; maybe they are reading his books and understanding his experiences, or they may wonder whether they too would be willing to make such a sacrifice; whether we would have the courage to do the same,” Hu Jia said.
Interview: The West . . . is Dealing With a Murderous Regime
Liao Yiwu: On June 4, 1989, they used an old-fashioned method to suppress the protests, sending in more than 200,000 regular troops, tanks, and armored cars to attack civilians. Hong Kong had the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration … and is a cosmopolitan city. But a key factor is terrain. It’s harder to send in large columns of tanks, and it would take far longer to carry out such a massacre in Hong Kong.
Ren Zhiqiang, Chinese Dissident Property Tycoon Defends Himself at Trial
Ren, 69, was probed by the CCDI after writing an open letter about Xi’s responses to the coronavirus epidemic, the Sino-U.S. trade war and the Taiwan elections.
Sources have said investigators handled the letter, which took the form of a long and highly critical essay, as an instance of “internal strife” within the ruling party.
Police in China Guangdong Order Eviction of Exiled Dissident Family
Dissident Liu Sifang, who fled China after a nationwide crackdown on activists led by police in the eastern province of Shandong, says his family is being harassed by authorities back home after being prevented from joining him.
China Aims For Total Control of People's Thinking From Primary Level Upwards
“Limiting access to foreign textbooks is a way to maintain ideological unity from the primary level of education upwards,” Gu said. “The system knows that knowledge is its nemesis, so it has to monopolize the right to define knowledge in order to continue existing.”
WeChat: A Tool of Authoritarian Control?
VISION TIMES “This WeChat account has been suspected of spreading malicious rumors and has been temporarily blocked…” is the message BBC reporter Stephen McDonell received earlier this year, after posting photos of a live event on his WeChat account. No commentary. Just a few shots of Hongkongers commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre […]