Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'freedom of speech'
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...
Police Probe Attack on Activist
By Radio Free AsiaAugust 31, 2010 The beating of an exposer of fraud highlights recent attacks against members of the Chinese media. A leading Chinese campaigner against academic fraud and fake remedies is recovering as police investigate a brutal attack...
Arrests Ahead of Tournament
By Radio Free AsiaAugust 25, 2010 Police clear Beijing of dissidents ahead of a star-studded martial arts event. Police in China's capital have removed a victim of the Tiananmen Square military crackdown from the city ahead of a high-profile martial...
Canada Calls on Chinese Embassy to Give Back Journalist's Passport
By Matthew Little and Jason Loftus | The Epoch TimesAugust 18, 2010 The office of Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has called on the Chinese embassy in Ottawa to return a Canadian journalist's passport, which he said was withheld...
Travel Bans For Activists
By Radio Free AsiaAugust 05, 2010 People previously allowed free movement are now having problems leaving China Chinese lawyers, academics, and rights activists say that authorities are increasingly targeting them through immigration controls, with a growing number of people prevented...
China Imprisons 3 Men Who Maintained Uighur Web Sites
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesJuly 30, 2010 Three men accused of "endangering state security" for their roles in maintaining popular Uighur-language Web sites have been sentenced to prison terms of 3 to 10 years, according to exile...
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...
Chinese Artist Who Led Protest Has Been Jailed, His Wife Says
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJuly 08, 2010 Wu Yuren, an artist who helped lead an unusually bold public protest last winter over a land dispute, has been languishing in a Beijing jail for almost six weeks after...
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...
Google to Stop Redirecting Chinese Users to Hong Kong
By Brad Stone and David Barboza | The New York TimesJune 29, 2010 In an effort to appease Beijing as it seeks to renew its license to operate in mainland China, Google plans to stop automatically redirecting Chinese users to...
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...
China defends Internet 'Great Firewall'
By Robert Saiget - AFP - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJune 08, 2010 China on Tuesday defended its right to censor the Internet, saying it needed to do so to ensure state security, and cautioned other nations to respect how it...
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...
Crackdown on Tibetan Ringtones
By Radio Free AsiaMay 21, 2010 Authorities in Tibet ban popular ringtones characterized as 'separatist.' Students and teachers at a high school near the Tibetan city of Shigatse have been told to delete certain popular Tibetan-language songs from their cell...
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...
China AIDS Activist Flees to U.S. After Harassment
By Gillian Wong - The Associated Press - via abcNEWSMay 10, 2010 China AIDS activist leaves for U.S. with family after government harassment intensified A prominent Chinese AIDS activist has fled China for the United States with his wife and...
Mine Sparks Anger in Qinghai
By Radio Free Asia07 May 2010 Tibetans say mining at a sacred site prompted a major earthquake. Tibetan herders in the remote western Chinese province of Qinghai have hit out at a mining company after it sank deep shafts into...
China jails 3 online activists; many show support
By Gillian Wong - The Associated Press - via Google NewsApril 16, 2010 A Chinese court jailed three people Friday who posted material on the Internet to help an illiterate woman pressure authorities to reinvestigate her daughter's death, one defendant's...
Gao Zhisheng, Hu Jia, Liu Xiaobo
A New York Times EditorialApril 13, 2010 Washington and Beijing are, rightly, eager to lower tensions. After President Obama met President Hu Jintao of China at the White House on Monday, officials said they had agreed to work together to...
China's Censors Tackle and Trip Over the Internet
Michael Wines, Sharon LaFraniere and Jonathan Ansfield | The New York TimesApril 07, 2010 Type the Chinese characters for "carrot" into Google's search engine here in mainland China, and you will be rewarded not with a list of Internet links,...
Journalists' E-Mails Hacked in China
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times30 March 2010 In what appears to be a coordinated assault, the e-mail accounts of more than a dozen rights activists, academics and journalists who cover China have been compromised by unknown intruders....
China bans poet from traveling to US conference
By Charles Hutzler | Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMarch 25, 2010 A pixie-ish literature professor is the latest person to run afoul of China's government, denied permission to travel to a prominent academic conference in the United States this...
Google Shuts China Site in Dispute Over Censorship
By Miguel Helft and David Barboza | The New York TimesMarch 22/23, 2010 Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions from hackers, Goolge on Monday closed its Internet search service there and began...
China Issues Another Warning to Google on Enforced Censorship of the Internet
By Michael Wines | The New York Times12 March 2010 One of China's top Internet regulators warned bluntly on Friday that any move by Google to stop censoring its Chinese search engine would be "irresponsible" and would draw a response...
Doubts On Reform Pledges
By Radio Free AsiaMarch 08, 2010 China's premier promises a more open society, but his speech to parliament meets with skepticism. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has called for greater oversight of government by ordinary citizens and media, but analysts and netizens...
For 13th Time, Critic of China's Government Is Barred From Leaving Country
By Michael Wines | The New York TimesMarch 02, 2010 Chinese security agents in Sichuan Province detained Liao Yiwu, a prominent author and critic of the government, as he prepared to fly Monday to a literary festival in Germany, human...
China imposes new rules for personal websites
By David Pierson - Los Angeles Times February 24, 2010 Applicants will have to verify their identities with regulators and have their photographs taken. A government ministry will review the requests. In a move that will give the government new...
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....
China's Defiance Stirs Fears for Missing Dissident
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesFebruary 03, 2010 A year ago this week, Chinese security agents made a midnight visit to the home of Gao Zhisheng, one of China's most high-profile human rights lawyers, and led him away....
IFJ Report Lists China's Secret Bans on Media Reporting
International Federation of JournalistsJanuary 31, 2009 A new report by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on press freedom in China highlights the battle by local censors to control media commentary on a wide range of topics throughout in 2009. ...
China paper slams U.S. for cyber role in Iran unrest
By Lucy Hornby | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJanuary 24, 2010 China's Communist Party mouthpiece on Sunday accused the United States of mounting a cyber army and a "hacker brigade," and of exploiting social media like Twitter or Youtube...
Remarks on Internet Freedom
克林顿国务卿关于互联网自由的讲话 >> Click here for the original English transcript 希拉里·克林顿（Hillary Rodham Clinton）国务卿 华盛顿哥伦比亚特区新闻博物馆（Newseum） 2009 年1 月21 日（星期四） 非常感谢，艾伯托（Alberto）。不仅要感谢你的赞誉和介绍，而且要感谢你和你的同事们在这个重要机构中发挥的领导作用。很高兴来到新闻博物馆。这个博物馆是一座纪念碑，见证了我们最珍视的一些自由。我十分感谢能有此机会谈谈如何运用这些自由应对二十一世纪的各项挑战。 虽然我并不能看到你们所有的人----因为在这样的场合灯光照射我的眼睛，而你们都在背光处----但我知道在座的有很多朋友和老同事。我要感谢自由论坛（Freedom Forum）的首席执行官查尔斯·奥弗比（Charles Overby）光临新闻博物馆，以及我在参议院时的老同事理查德·卢格（Richard Lugar）和乔·利伯曼 (Joe Lieberman) 两位参议员，他们两位都为《表达法》（Voice Act）的通过作出了努力。这项立法表明，美国国会和美国人民不分党派，不分政府部门，坚定地支持互联网自由。 我听说在场的还有参议员萨姆·布朗巴克（Sam Brownback）、参议员特德·考夫曼（Ted Kaufman）、众议员洛雷塔·桑切斯（Loretta Sanchez）、许多大使、临时代办和外交使团的其他代表、以及从中国、哥伦比亚、伊朗、黎巴嫩和摩尔多瓦等国前来参加我们关于互联网自由的"国际访问者领袖计划"（International Visitor Leadership Program）的人士。我还要提到最近被任命为广播理事会（Broadcasting Board of Govenors）理事的阿斯彭研究所（Aspen Institute）所长沃尔特·艾萨克森（Walter Isaacson）。毫无疑问，他在阿斯彭研究所从事的支持互联网自由的工作中发挥了重要作用。 这是关于一个非常重要的议题的一个重要讲话。但在开始谈这个议题前，我想简要介绍一下海地的情况。过去八天来，海地人民和世界人民携手应对一场巨大的灾难。我们这个半球曾历经磨难，但我们目前在太子港面临的困境鲜有先例。通讯网络在我们抗击这场灾难的过程中发挥了极其重要的作用。不用说，当地的通讯网络遭受了重创，在很多地方被彻底摧毁。地震发生后仅几个小时，我们就与民营部门的伙伴发起"海地"（HAITI）短信捐款活动，使美国的移动电话使用者能通过发短信向救灾工作捐款。这项活动充分展示了美国人民的慷慨。迄今，该活动已为海地的抗震救灾筹集了2500 多万美元。...
China to Scan Text Messages to Spot 'Unhealthy Content'
By Sharon LaFraniere | The New York TimesJanuary 19, 2010 As the Chinese government expands what it calls a campaign against pornography, cellular companies in Beijing and Shanghai have been told to suspend text services to cellphone users who are...
Hackers Said to Breach Gmail Accounts in China
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJanuary 19, 2009 Google e-mail accounts of at least two foreign journalists in Beijing have been compromised, a journalists' advocacy group in China said on Monday, adding that hackers changed Gmail program settings...
In Rebuke of China, Focus Falls on Cybersecurity
By Miguel Helft and John Markoff | The New York Times13 January 2010 Even before Google threatened to pull out of China in response to an attack on its computer systems, the company was notifying activists whose e-mail accounts might...
Google's Threat Echoed Everywhere, Except China
By Andrew Jacobs, Miguel Helft and John Markoff | The New York TimesJanuary 13, 2010 Google's declaration that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in the country ricocheted around the world Wednesday....
China Jails Tibetan Filmmaker
By Radio Free AsiaJanuary 06, 2010 The documentary 'Leaving Fear Behind' gets its producer a six-year prison term. Authorities in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai have handed a six-year jail sentence to a Tibetan filmmaker who returned from exile...
President Obama, Push Back on China
By WEI JINGSHENG - Op-Ed Contributor - The New York TimesDecember 30, 2009 Last week, a moderate reformist in China, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Chinese government for the mere act of organizing and...
France berates China over sentencing of dissident
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 26, 2009France chastised China on Saturday for jailing dissident Liu Xiaobo and reminded Beijingof its commitments to dialogue on human rights with the European Union.Liu, China's most prominent dissident, was jailed on Friday for 11 years for campaigning for political...
Argentine judge asks China arrests over Falun Gong
By Luis Andres Henao | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News December 23, 2009 BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine judge has ordered the arrest of China's former President Jiang Zemin and another top official for "crimes against humanity" in...
Another Clue to How China Managed Obama's Visit
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesDecember 05, 2009 In case President Obama is curious, some students who went to his town hall meeting in Shanghai last month wonder how he gets along with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
School Construction Critic Gets Prison Term in China
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesNovember 24, 2009 A lengthy prison sentence for a rights activist shows the determination of Chinese officials to suppress any vestige of dissent related to shoddy construction and unnecessary deaths in last year's...
Lawyers, Activists Denied Access
By Radio Free AsiaNovember 18, 2009 Chinese rights lawyers and petitioners were closely watched and prevented from meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to Beijing. Rights lawyers and activists in Beijing during U.S. President Barack Obama's visit...
In China, Battles Over A New Wall
By NBS News' Ed Flanagan | via MSNBC09 November 2009 Twenty years after the toppling of the Berlin Wall, another "wall" is facing intense public scrutiny in China. The so-called Great Firewall of China, the online filtering and surveillance program...
Bluetooth Breaches Firewall
By Radio Free Asia01 October 2009 Cell phone technology provides a new method for exchanging information in Internet-censored China. As Beijing redoubles its efforts to censor Internet content during sensitive National Day celebrations, netizens are turning to an existing form...
China Is Wordless on Traumas of Communists' Rise
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesOctober 2, 2009 CHANGCHUN, China -- Unlike in other cities taken by the People's Liberation Army during China's civil war, there were no crowds to greet the victors as they made their triumphant...
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 Clamps Down on Internet Ahead of 60th Anniversary
By Owen Fletcher, IDG News Service | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 25, 2009 Security forces with black masks and machine guns on the streets of China's capital are just the more visible side of a security clampdown in the country...
Uighur Film to Show In Taiwan, Angering China
By REUTERS | The New York TimesSeptember 20, 2009 Taiwan's second-largest city said Sunday it would show a film about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer further angering China which is still fuming about the Dalai Lama's recent visit to the island....
Tainted Milk Parents Held
By Radio Free AsiaSeptember 14, 2009 Chinese authorities detain parents observing the anniversary of a far-reaching milk scandal that sickened their children. Three parents of children sickened in China's 2008 tainted-milk scandal were detained after observing the one-year anniversary of...
China moves to control online music industry
By Marianne Barriaux - Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 10, 2009 China has announced that all songs posted on music websites must receive prior approval and foreign lyrics must be translated into Chinese, in a new push...
China Tainted Milk Parents Warned Against Meeting
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times10 September 2009 Chinese police have tried to prevent parents of children sickened by tainted milk powder from traveling to Beijing to mark the anniversary of last year's scandal, an activist said...
China Web Sites Seeking Users' Names
By Jonathan Ansfield | The New York TimesSeptember 05, 2009 News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the...
Reporters banned from Chinese village
By BBC World NewsAugust 25, 2009 Police and local government officials in China have swamped a village at the centre of a lead poisoning case in Changqing, which left hundreds of children sick. Villagers are forbidden from speaking to journalists,...
Parents of China lead victims fear for future
By Francois Bougon | Agence France Presse AFP | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 23, 2009 HENGJIANG, China (AFP) - The landscape near Hengjiang village offers a picture-postcard view of China, with rice paddies, water buffaloes and rolling green hills. It...
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...
China Clamps Down on More Social Web Sites, Researcher Says
By Brian Womack - Bloomberg.com21 July 2009 The Chinese government restricted access to more social-networking sites in the past few days, escalating a clampdown that started about six months ago, said Xia Qiang, director of the Berkeley China Internet Project....
Crackdown on Rights Lawyers
By RADIO FREE ASIA17 July 2009 Chinese authorities in Beijing have closed a legal research center and revoked the licenses of more than 50 attorneys in a bid to exert greater control over activists. Some 20 officials from Beijing's Civil...
China tries to bar Uighur film in Australia
By Rob Taylor | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 14, 2009 China's government, entangled in a row with Australia over alleged commercial spying, has stirred more controversy by demanding a documentary about restive ethnic Uighurs be dropped from Australia's...
Beijing Adds Curbs on Access to Internet
By Keith Bradsher | The New York TimesJune 25, 2009 The Chinese Health Ministry on Thursday ordered sharp restrictions on Internet access to medical research papers on sexual subjects. It is the latest move in what the ministry calls an...
Tibetan TV Dishes Pulled
By RADIO FREE ASIAJune 21, 2009 Tibetans cite a new government effort to control what news they hear. KATHMANDU--Chinese authorities have begun to remove satellite dishes in a Tibetan-populated region of China in an effort to block access to foreign...
China's PC Censorship Software Blocks More than Sex
By Dylan Bushell-Embling | BusinessWeekJune 15, 2009 The controversial new software blocks political and religious websites and is "far more intrusive" than other content control software, say OpenNet researchers China's new Green Dam filtering program blocks far more content than...
China Faces Criticism Over New Software Censor
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesJune 11, 2009 China is facing a storm of protest at home and abroad over new regulations requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include software that can filter out pornography...
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...
Police swarm Tiananmen Square on anniversary
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writers via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News04 June 2009 BEIJING - In Tiananmen Square, police were ready to pounce at the first sign of protest. In Hong Kong, a sea of candles flickered in...
To Shut Off Tiananmen Talk, China Blocks Sites
By Michael Wines and Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESJune 3, 2009 China's government censors have begun to block access to the Internet services Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Micarosoft's live.com, broadening an already extraordinary effort to shield its citizens...
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...
Opinion: Dissent remains silenced in China
By Wu'er Kaixi | CNNMay 31, 2009 Editor's note: Wu'er Kaixi was a student leader in 1989, and since then has been living in exile outside of China. On June 4 this year, it will have been 20 years since...
20 years on, Tiananmen survivors demand 'truth' from China
By Agence France Presse (AFP) | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMay 26, 2009 Exiled Chinese dissidents who survived the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square demonstration said on Tuesday that, after 20 years, China should be held to account for the...
Mao Portrait Protesters Get Asylum
By RADIO FREE ASIAMay 19, 2009 Two men jailed for a high-profile act of vandalism in 1989 get U.S. asylum and treatment for trauma suffered in prison. HONG KONG--Two protesters who helped splatter Mao Zedong's portrait with red paint during...
Secret Memoir Offers Look Inside China's Politics
By Erik Eckholm | THE NEW YORK TIMESMay 15, 2009 In May 1989, as he feuded with hard-line party rivals over how to handle the students occupying Tiananmen Square, China's Communist Party chief requested a personal audience with Deng Xiaoping,...
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...
In China, Quake Survivors Must Swallow Grief and Anger
By Jill Drew - Washington Post Foreign Service | THE WASHINGTON POST May 03, 2009 JUYUAN, China -- After last May's massive earthquake buried her son under tons of shattered concrete at his collapsed school, Han Xuehua, numb and disbelieving,...
A Manifesto on Freedom Sets China's Persecution Machinery in Motion
By Michael Wines | THE NEW YORK TIMES01 May 2009 Behind the west Beijing apartment building where Liu Xia keeps a fifth-floor flat, the police have built a guardhouse. Its purpose is not to protect Ms. Liu, who seeks no...
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...
Netizens Defy Tiananmen Silencing
By RADIO FREE ASIAApril 22, 2009 As the 20-year anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown approaches, Chinese netizens find ways to work around government censorship. HONG KONG An article criticizing China's deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing has...
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...
China Rights Activist Beaten in Cemetery
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesApril 07, 2009 Last Saturday was tomb-sweeping day, when the Chinese traditionally honor the dead. Sun Wenguang, a 75-year-old retired professor, was one of many to visit the cemetery. Apparently, though, he chose...
Tibet Protesters Are Held in China After Riot
By David Barboza | THE NEW YORK TIMESMarch 24, 2009 Nearly 100 people, most of them monks, were being held in a Tibetan area of northwestern China after a crowd attacked a police station there on Saturday, according to the...
Gao Zhisheng's Family Safe in New York
By The Epoch TimesMarch 15, 2009 The family of respected Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng arrived in New York at JFK airport on Saturday night at about 10 PM. Gao's wife Geng He, and their two children, aged 16...
Seeking Justice, Chinese Land in Secret Jails
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times09 March 2009 They are often tucked away in the rough-and-tumble sections of the city's south side, hidden beneath dingy hotels and guarded by men in dark coats. Known as "black houses," they...
Oasis China concerts are shelved
By BBC World News 02 March 2009 Oasis' debut concerts in China have been cancelled after the authorities revoked the band's licences to play, deeming them "unsuitable". Shows in Beijing and Shanghai due to take place next month have been...
China "mothers" urge reckoning with 1989 bloodshed
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsFebruary 27, 2009 A group representing families of demonstrators killed or maimed in the armed crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests 20 years ago has urged China to name the dead, denouncing official silence...
After 5 Months, China to Try Would-Be Protester
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESFebruary 22, 2009 On Monday, a 62-year-old woman named Zhong Ruihua who traveled from southern China to Beijing during the Paralympics to conduct a protest is scheduled to go on trial for disturbing...
Obama speech censored in China
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsJanuary 21, 2009 China has censored parts of the new US president's inauguration speech that have appeared on a number of websites. Live footage of the event on state television also cut away from...
Would-Be Olympic Protester Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESJanuary 16, 2009 A legal advocate who was arrested after applying to hold a protest in Beijing during the Olympic Games in August has been sentenced to three years in prison, said a...
China jails democracy activist for 6 years
The Associated Press | MSNBC.comJanuary 08, 2009 Veteran campaigner attempted to establish opposition political party A 65-year-old democracy activist who tried to set up an opposition party in China has been sentenced to six years in jail, a human rights...
Parents of China Milk Scandal Victims Detained
By REUTERS | The Epoch TimesJanuary 02, 2009 BEIJING--A group of parents whose children fell ill from drinking tainted Chinese milk have been detained by police apparently trying to block them from holding a news conference, one of the fathers...
Petition Urges China to Free Dissident
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESDecember 23, 2008 More than 160 prominent writers, scholars and human rights advocates outside mainland China have signed an open letter to President Hu Jintao asking him to release a well-known intellectual and dissident...
Post-Olympics China Turns Its Back On Internet Censorship Promises
By Jason Mick | DAILYTECH.COMDecember 18, 2008 Just when you thought China had softened on web crack-downs, it returns to its old ways China has not exactly been known for its great freedom of speech. Its citizens' internet access is tightly...
China says within rights to block some websites
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 16, 2008 China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday the country was within its rights to block websites with content illegal under Chinese law, including websites that referred to China and Taiwan as two...
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...
China blasts Sarkozy's Dalai Lama meeting as 'unwise'
By EUbusiness.comDecember 07, 2008 Chinese state media on Sunday blasted French President Nicolas Sarkozy's meeting with the Dalai Lama as an "unwise move" that has undermined relations with Beijing. Sarkozy, who currently holds the EU presidency, met the exiled Tibetan...
Belgian TV crew beaten, robbed in China
By Canadian Broadcasting Company | cbcnews.caNovember 29, 2008 A Belgian TV journalist and his crew have been assaulted while reporting on AIDS in Central China. Belgian journalist Tom Van de Weghe and his team from the public television network VRT...
China cancels summit with EU over Dalai Lama visit
By Steven Erlanger | INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNENovember 26, 2008 PARIS: China has postponed an annual summit with the European Union originally scheduled for next Monday, the Europeans said in a statement on Wednesday. The Chinese were evidently angered by a...
China Irritated with 'Slanderous' U.N. Report on Rights
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESNovember 25, 2008 The Chinese government reacted angrily on Monday to what it called a slanderous United Nations report that alleges systemic torture of political and criminal detainees. The government said the authors...
Everyone's a Critic: China Blasts "Chinese Democracy"
By Dave Itzkoff | The New York TimesNovember 24, 2008 It's no secret how the Chinese government feels about democracy. Now it has weighed in on "Chinese Democracy," too. The Associated Press reported that The Global Times, the official tabloid...
Crisis Hits Chinese Workers
By RADIO FREE ASIA (credits at end of article)November 04, 2008 Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in China's formerly booming coastal cities are heading home amid factory closures and labor disputes sparked by the global downturn. SHENZHEN, China: Worker...
China listed U.S. athletes as possible troublemakers
By Christine Brennan | USA TODAYOctober 30, 2008 China's government was so concerned about the possibility of athlete demonstrations in the Beijing Olympics that it created a list of nine U.S. athletes and one assistant coach it thought might cause...
Chinese Activist Wins Rights Prize
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times October 24, 2008 Hu Jia, a soft-spoken, bespectacled advocate for democracy and human rights in China, was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe's most prestigious human rights prize, on...
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