Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'freedom of religion'
The yin and yang of human rights in China
By Frank Ching | The Japan Times September 3, 2010 The only lady vice minister in China's Foreign Ministry is Fu Ying, a well-coiffed, mild-mannered 57-year-old, an ethnic Mongol who speaks flawless English, who has served as ambassador to the...
Politics Intrude in Mosque
by Radio Free Asia03 August 2010 A Chinese propaganda event in a religious space offends Uyghurs Members of the Uyghur ethnic minority in northwest China have expressed anger and concern about controls over imams after a local Communist Party committee...
China's Money and Migrants Pour Into Tibet
By Edward Wong | The New York Times24 July 2010 They come by new high-altitude trains, four a day, cruising 1,200 miles past snow-capped mountains. And they come by military truck convoy, lumbering across the roof of the world. Han...
Tibetan environmentalist gets 5 years
By RADIO FREE ASIA4th of July 2010 A Tibetan environmentalist is sentenced on charges of "splittism" a week after his brother's trial. Award-winning Tibetan environmentalist Rinchen Samdrup, 44, was sentenced on Saturday to five years in prison on charges of...
China starts trial against Tibet environmentalist
By Christopher Bodeen - The Associated Press via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News (Canada)June 22, 2010 A Tibetan environmentalist once praised by Chinese state media as a model philanthropist went on trial Tuesday in western China on what supporters say are politically...
Uyghurs: New Details on Arrests
By Radio Free Asia May 26, 2010 Chinese authorities are still detaining a number of Uyghurs without charge after the Urumqi unrest. New accounts detailing the detention of ethnic Uyghurs in northwest China in the wake of deadly unrest show...
U.S. risks China's ire with decision to fund software maker tied to Falun Gong
By John Pomfret | The Washington PostMay 12, 2010 The State Department has decided to fund a group run mainly by practitioners of Falun Gong, a Buddhist-like sect long considered Enemy No. 1 by the Chinese government, to provide software to...
Obama to Meet Dalai Lama Despite Chinese Warning
By REUTERS | The New York TimesFebruary 18, 2010 President Barack Obama will host the Dalai Lama at the White House on Thursday despite China's warning that the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could further damage strained ties....
Christians Held in Shanghai
By Radio Free AsiaNovember 30, 2009 A pastor at an unofficial Protestant church banned from holding indoor meetings by authorities in Shanghai said she would seek compensation for mistreatment by police, as hundreds of the church's followers held an open-air...
Bingtuan School Expels Christian
By Radio Free AsiaOctober 28, 2009 A Chinese student runs into trouble when he refuses to renounce Christianity. HONG KONG--A high-school student who refused to renounce Christianity has been expelled from a Han Chinese military production corps school in the...
New Curbs in Tibet
By Radio Free Asia28 September 2009 Tibetans face increased restrictions on prayer and travel ahead of a sensitive Chinese anniversary. As authorities prepare for sensitive anniversary celebrations across China, a growing security presence in the country's west is limiting the...
China in a woman's grip
By Saad Al-Ghamdi | Al-Watan (Saudi Arabia) | via ArabNews (Saudi Arabia)August 16, 2009 Millions of Uighur Muslims in China's Xinjiang province have been the victims of persecution and exile or execution simply because they demand a dignified recognition of...
Three-year Prison Sentence for Distributing Bible
By Zheng Yuwen | VOICE OF AMERICA NEWS | The Epoch TimesJune 16, 2009 A Beijing court recently sentenced a bookstore owner to three years in prison for printing and circulating the Bible. He was officially convicted for conducting "illegal...
Dalai Lama made citizen of Paris
BBC NewsJune 08, 2009 The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has been made an honorary citizen of the French capital, Paris. The mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, made the award in what French President Nicolas Sarkozy described as a municipal...
Tiananmen Square Remembered: Three Participants Tell Their Stories
The Epoch TimesJune 1, 2009 On April 14, 1989 in Beijing, students began gathering to honor the death of Hu Yaobang, the reform-minded former general secretary of the Communist Party. The students began calling for a number of reforms of...
How the Family of a Dissident Fled China
By David W. Chen | The New York Times Sunday, May 10, 2009 Gao Zhisheng, one of China's most irrepressible dissidents, began the day of Jan. 9 the same way as most days since security officials had begun watching him...
China Still Presses Crusade Against Falun Gong
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESApril 28, 2009 In the decade since the Chinese government began repressing Falun Gong, a crusade that human rights groups say has led to the imprisonment of tens of thousands of practitioners and...
China's Other Minority, Seen by One of Its Own
By Howard W. French | The New York Times (Books of the Times)April 23, 2009 It is the awkward fate of China, more than any other country, to be arriving late to any number of parties where most other revelers...
Dalai Lama Harshly Condemns China Over Tibet
THE NEW YORK TIMESBy Edward Wong Jonathan Ansfield contributed reporting from Beijing, and Hari Kumar from New Delhi March 10, 2009 The Dalai Lama delivered on Tuesday one of his harshest attacks on the Chinese government in recent times, saying...
Evangelical church leaders detained in China
By Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsFebruary 17, 2009 Police raided a private evangelical seminar in central China and detained more than 60 worshippers, with four of them still in custody a week after the roundup, a U.S.-based Christian...
ON RIGHTS DAY, China Hails Gains and DETAINS PROTESTERS
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESDecember 11, 2008 China celebrated International Human Rights Day on Wednesday with newspaper editorials and television commentaries hailing what they called the country's "unremitting efforts" and "nonstop progress" in promoting free speech and...
Wary of Islam, China Tightens a Vise of Rules
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesOctober 19, 2008 KHOTAN, China -- The grand mosque that draws thousands of Muslims each week in this oasis town has all the usual trappings of piety: dusty wool carpets on which to...
'Post-Olympic era' off to a rocky start in China
By CNN - The World's Largest NetworkSeptember 17, 2008 The Olympic flame is out, the smog is back, and traffic again clogs the roads. Welcome to what commentators are calling China's "post-Olympic era," in which euphoria over the Beijing Games...
Curbs Imposed on Muslims in Western China During Ramadan
By Edward Wong | The New York Times09 September 2008 Local governments in a Muslim desert region in western China have imposed strict limits on religious practices during the traditional Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which began last week, according...
Ramadan crackdown in China
news24.com (South Africa)05 September 2008 Authorities in China's Muslim-populated far northwest are seeking to prevent mass prayers and the distribution of religious material as part of a security crackdown for Ramadan, government notices said. A series of attacks on police...
Tibetan Monks Still Held in Qinghai
By Radio Free Asia August 28, 2008 Months after widespread Tibetan protests against Chinese rule, hundreds of monks are detained in Qinghai. Hundreds of Tibetan monks detained after widespread protests against Chinese rule earlier this year were deported from the...
Let The Protests Begin: Groups Bash China
CBS NEWS / ASSOCIATED PRESSAugust 06, 2008 Foreign activists unfurled pro-Tibet banners at a key Olympics venue Wednesday and spoke out against China's rights record in Tiananmen Square, in the first attempts to use the white-hot spotlight of the games...
China's Olympic muddle
The Christian Science Monitor July 18, 2008 Like a marathoner at the finish line, China seems whipped. It struggled two decades to host the Olympics that open in three weeks. It has spent about $50 billion, pumped up its athletes,...
Around the World, Activists Assemble to Press China on Rights
By Robin Shulman | The Washington Post 08 July 2008 Marking the one-month countdown to the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, activists gathered here and in cities around the world Tuesday to call on China to ease crackdowns on...
China's Inside Game
By April Rabkin | The New York TimesJuly 02, 2008 Last week, amid continuing calls from activists in Europe and the United States to boycott the Olympics to protest China's record on human rights, came a rare rebuke from the...
China Blocks U.S. Legislators' Meeting
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times July 02, 2008 Two United States representatives who were in Beijing to lobby for the release of more than 700 political prisoners had hoped to have dinner on Sunday with a group...
Jailed and Tortured Fighting for Free Speech
By Ben Hurley | Epoch Times Australia StaffJune 27, 2008 Somewhere in the world, the warm fire crackles as giggling children adorn their Christmas tree with the colourful lights that William Huang made in jail. A United States living room...
Uyghur Mosque Demolished
Original reporting by Ding Xiao for RFA's Mandarin service. Service director: Jennifer Chou. Written and produced in English by Sarah Jackson-Han. RADIO FREE ASIA 23 June 2008 Chinese authorities have demolished a Uyghur mosque in remote and restive Xinjiang amid...
Olympic Torch's Tibet Visit Is Short and Political
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times22 June 2008 The visit of the Olympic torch to the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, came and went in about two hours on Saturday. Leaders of the ruling Communist Party probably exhaled once the...
Spotlight on China, darkness in Tibet
By Dan Southerland | The Christian Science Monitor June 11, 2008 China's media covered the country's earthquake tragedy more openly than any past disaster. But the Chinese government still maintains a blackout over news from Tibet, which experienced its biggest...
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Stern rules for foreigners at Olympics
By USA TODAY June 02, 2008 Foreigners attending the Beijing Olympics better behave -- or else. The Beijing Olympic organizing committee issued a stern, nine-page document Monday that covers 57 topics. Written in Chinese only and posted on the official...
China Blocks Thousands of Hindus From Tibet Pilgrimage
By Heather Timmons and Hari Kumar | The New York TimesMay 21, 2008 The Chinese government is refusing to issue visas to Hindus trying to make the traditional summer pilgrimage to what they hold to be the home of Lord...
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