Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'justice in China'
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...
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...
A Grim Chapter in History Kept Closed
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW for The New York TimesJuly 22, 2010 On a day in late March, Zhang Dazhong, one of China's richest men, struggled to speak through tears as he addressed his assembled guests. "My mother died 40 years...
Violence Near Tech Park
By Radio Free Asia19 July 2010 Residents want Beijing to investigate graft allegations around a property deal. Thousands of people surrounded government offices near Suzhou's flagship high-tech industrial park in recent days, sparking clashes between riot police and residents angry...
Lawyers' Licenses Withheld
By Radio Free AsiaJuly 18, 2010 Chinese authorities use the annual license inspection to intimidate lawyers. Chinese authorities have refused to renew the professional licenses of several prominent rights lawyers in this year's inspection. Other rights lawyers were forced to...
China tourism plan a Trojan horse
By VietNamNet BridgeJuly 18, 2010 China's recently announced tourism development plan has been slammed as a Machiavellian ploy to claim sovereignty over Vietnam's Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos. "This trick is very clever, taking the name of...
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...
Chinese court sentences US geologist to 8 years
By Charles Hutzler - Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 05, 2010 An American geologist held and tortured by China's state security agents was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for gathering data on the Chinese oil industry...
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...
Police Quash Tiananmen Memorials
By Radio Free AsiaJune 03, 2010 China blocks efforts to commemorate the 1989 massacre in Beijing of pro-democracy demonstrators. Attempts to stage public events and protests commemorating the 21st anniversary of the military crackdown on the 1989 student-led pro-democracy movement...
We will NEVER forget
From the publishers of Truth About China on June 04, 2010...
Tiananmen Mothers demand end to government silence over massacre
By AsiaNews.it04 June 2010 Open Letter of the families of those killed in the massacre of June 4, 1989. The Party does not respond and waits for them to "die" to get rid of the problem. With the anniversary approaching,...
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...
Lawyer Barred from Going Abroad
By Radio Free AsiaMay 17, 2010 A recently disbarred rights lawyer says he has been banned by Chinese border police from leaving the country. Attorney Tang Jitian said in an interview Monday that he had been stopped by security officers...
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...
Milk Activist Trial Censored
By Radio Free Asia01 April 2010 China blacks out news about the trial of an activist who helped victims of a tainted milk scandal. Chinese authorities have taken swift steps to censor online news and information about the trial of...
China Says Lawyer 'Sentenced'
By Radio Free AsiaMarch 17, 2010 But one year later, Gao Zhisheng remains missing. China's foreign minister Yang Jiechi has referred to a "sentencing for subversion" in the case of rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been missing for more...
Cabbie Dies in Custody
By Radio Free AsiaMarch 15, 2010 A suspicious death in detention sparks questions. A taxi driver in southern China has died while serving a short detention as punishment for a traffic violation, according to the man's wife. Liu Zhengguo, a driver...
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...
Tank Victim Gets US Asylum
By Radio Free AsiaFebruary 09, 2010 A victim of China's 1989 crackdown says he's looking forward to his new life. WASHINGTON--A promising Chinese athlete whose legs were crushed by a tank during the military crackdown on the 1989 student-led pro-democracy...
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....
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...
Lead Pollution Harms Children
By Radio Free AsiaJanuary 05, 2010 Villagers in southern China say authorities are trying to hide the effects of lead poisoning on their children. More than 100 children in a village in southern China have tested positive for elevated lead...
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...
China, Cambodia and the Uighurs
A New York Times EditorialDecember 22, 2009 Just more than a year ago, Cambodia was praised by the United Nations for its work on behalf of refugees. It was one of only two nations in Southeast Asia to sign the...
China Indicts Prominent Dissident
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesDecember 12, 2009 Liu Xiaobo, one of China's best-known dissidents and a principal author of a pro-democracy manifesto that has attracted more than 10,000 signatures from Chinese supporters, was indicted Thursday on charges...
Activist Refused Lawyer Visit
By Radio Free Asia December 08, 2009 A Chinese activist representing tainted-milk victims is barred from seeing his lawyer. A spokesman for victims in last year's tainted milk scandal detained for weeks has yet to be allowed to speak with...
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...
China 'black jails' shield leaders from complaints
By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press Writer | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsNovember 12, 2009 Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China's central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that mainland police refuse to acknowledge or crack down...
China Is Trying a Tibetan Filmmaker for Subversion
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesOctober 31, 2009 A self-taught filmmaker who spent five months interviewing Tibetans about their hopes and frustrations living under Chinese rule is facing charges of state subversion after the footage was smuggled abroad...
Many 'missing' after China riots
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsOctober 21, 2009 Dozens of ethnic Uighurs have disappeared since being detained in the wake of the riots in China's Xinjiang region, a human rights group has said. Human Rights Watch said the 43...
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...
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 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...
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 bans petitioners in Beijing
By Shirong Chen - BBC News15 August 2009 The Chinese government has issued a new regulation to stop petitioners from travelling to the capital, Beijing. Legal officials from Beijing will now visit people with complaints in the provinces in order...
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...
Clashes Over Quake Trial
By RADIO FREE ASIAAugust 13, 2009 Chinese writer Tan Zuoren goes on trial, and supporters say his plan to issue an independent report on last year's deadly earthquake is the reason. Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have...
Arrest in China Rattles Backers of Legal Rights
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMES10 August 2009 China's nascent legal rights movement, already reeling from a crackdown on crusading lawyers, the kidnapping of defense witnesses and the shuttering of a prominent legal clinic, has been shaken by...
China Urged to Cancel Quake Trials
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesAugust 06, 2009 Human rights advocates are calling on the Chinese government to cancel the criminal trials of two men who pushed for official investigations into the causes of widespread school collapses during...
Media furore over Kadeer's tour
By BBC World NewsJuly 29, 2009 The visit of exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer to Japan has provoked a storm of criticism in China's press, with commentators warning that it will be seen as a hostile act towards Beijing. China...
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 Curbs, Blocks Web Sites
By Radio Free Asia08 July 2009 Authorities in the northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have blocked access to certain key government Web sites around the region, which has been rocked in recent days by ethnic violence. The Web sites...
Timeline: Xinjiang unrest
By BBC World NewsJuly 8, 2009 Ethnic violence has erupted in China's western province of Xinjiang, with scores of people being killed and hundreds injured. Here are some of the most recent developments: 5 JULY A small number of Uighurs...
Another Media Tour Goes Very, Very Badly for Chinese Authorities
By Robert Mackey | THE NEW YORK TIMESJuly 07, 2009 As my colleague Edward Wong reports from Urumqi, China, where rioting and ethnic clashes have led to more than 150 deaths, a government-organized tour for foreign and Chinese journalists went...
More Than 140 Dead in Clashes in China's Xinjiang Province
By Simon Elegant | TIME Magazine in Partnership with CNNMonday, July 06, 2009 Chinese authorities announced today that some 140 people had been killed and over 800 wounded in protests that roiled Urumqi, the capital of China's far western Xinjiang...
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...
Why The Case For China's Lawyers Doesn't Look Good
By Austin Ramzy | TIME Magazine in partnership with CNNJune 17, 2009 On May 13, Beijing lawyer Li Chunfu went to the southwestern city of Chongqing with a colleague to meet with the family of a man who died in...
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...
The Price of Cheap: When China's Products Fail, Americans Suffer
By Jessica L. Weinstein | FOX newsMay 28, 2009 Even if an American company goes to court and beats a Chinese manufacturer for providing faulty products, it's virtually impossible to get the overseas company to make good on its legal...
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,...
US dismayed by reported arrest of China protest leader
By AFP - Agence France Presse - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMay 13, 2009 The United States voiced concern Wednesday over China's reported arrest of a student leader of the 1989 democracy protests. "We are disturbed by reports that prominent Chinese...
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...
No blame in China school collapse
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsMay 08, 2009 China says it has found no evidence that human negligence caused schools to collapse during last year's earthquake. Thousands of schools were damaged while buildings nearby remained intact in the massive...
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,...
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...
Graft in China Covers Up Toll of Coal Mines
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | THE NEW YORK TIMESApril 11, 2009 ZHONGLOU, China -- When an underground fire killed 35 men at the bottom of a coal shaft last year, the telltale signs of another Chinese mining disaster were everywhere: Black...
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...
Chinese Hunger for Sons Fuels Boys' Abductions
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMES April 05, 2009 The thieves often strike at dusk, when children are playing outside and their parents are distracted by exhaustion. Deng Huidong lost her 9-month-old son in the blink of an...
China quake activist detained: rights group
By AFP (Agence France Presse) | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsApril 01, 2009 Police in southwestern China have detained an activist who was investigating whether shoddy construction caused school collapses in last year's massive earthquake, a rights groups said Wednesday. The...
China Terrorizes Tibet
The New York Times EditorialMarch 18, 2009 It was impossible not to notice that the United States removed China from its list of top 10 human rights violators just as the biggest anti-China protests in 20 years erupted in Tibet....
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...
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...
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...
50 Years After Revolt, Clampdown on Tibetans
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESMarch 05, 2009 Enraged nomads stormed through this windswept town on the Tibetan plateau a year ago this month, raiding a police compound, setting fire to squad cars and forcing police officers to...
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...
Chinese Human Rights Law Firm Ordered To Close
By DOW JONES Newswires (Agence France Presse)20 February 2009 Chinese authorities have told a Beijing law firm known for its human rights work that it will be closed, lawyers and activists said Friday. A Beijing judicial bureau told the Yitong...
Huang Qi
EDITORIAL - THE NEW YORK TIMES08 February 2009 In a changing world, one unfortunate constant is the abhorrent ways in which China abuses its people. Huang Qi is a victim of that abuse because he dared to help other victims...
China Rights Advocate Who Tried to Aid Quake Victims' Parents Faces Trial
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESFebruary 03, 2009 A human rights advocate who tried to help grieving parents push for an official investigation into a school that collapsed during May's earthquake in Sichuan Province has been charged with...
Tibetan Youth Dies in Custody
By RADIO FREE ASIAJanuary 30, 2009 A Tibetan youth detained for his role in a nonviolent protest has been beaten to death by police, Tibetan sources say. Pema Tsepak, 24, a resident of Punda town in the Dzogang county of...
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: Protester Reported Beaten
By Keith Bradsher | The New York Times January 10, 2009 A Shanghai woman who had traveled to Beijing to protest home evictions for real estate developments was detained and beaten by the authorities, a human rights group said...
Another Tibet--Uighur Mirrors the Issues in Tibet
By Matthias Kehrein and Florian Godovits | The Epoch TimesJanuary 05, 2009 The Uighurs, a nine million Muslim minority, residing in Eastern Turkistan in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, are one of the worst abused people at the hands of the...
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...
Chinese Court Jails More Tibetans
By RADIO FREE ASIADecember 22, 2008 More jail terms are handed down to Tibetans implicated in widespread anti-China protests earlier this year. KATHMANDU--Authorities in China's southwestern province of Sichuan have handed down further prison terms to Tibetans detained in anti-China...
2 Uighurs Sentenced to Death for West China Police Assault
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMES18 December 2008 A court in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang has sentenced two men to death for an attack in August that killed 17 paramilitary officers, according to a report on...
China's coming collapse: hidden crisis, global financial mess, corruption
By Centro de Medios Independientes Valparaiso (Chile)December 13, 2008 Is China about to collapse due to hidden crises and corruption? Is global financial crisis impacting China? Is a runaway government corruption destroying Chinese economy and peace? What is really behind...
Whistle-Blowers in Chinese City Sent to Mental Hospital
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMES09 December 2008 Local officials in Shandong Province have apparently found a cost-effective way to deal with gadflies, whistle-blowers and all manner of muckraking citizens who dare to challenge the authorities: dispatch them...
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...
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...
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...
Courts Compound Pain of China's Tainted Milk
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesOctober 17, 2008 The first sign of trouble was powder in the baby's urine. Then there was blood. By the time the parents took their son to the hospital, he had no urine...
How free are reporters in China?
By BBC News17 October 2008Rules that gave foreign reporters greater freedom during the Beijing Olympics are due to expire. The BBC asked a range of reporters in China what difference the rules have made to their working lives. JAMES MILES...
Lawyers' Outrage at Milk Case Ban
By RADIO FREE ASIA07 October 2008 Lawyers in China are warned against taking on cases related to a widening scandal over tainted milk. Chinese lawyers have slammed a government directive banning them from taking on cases related to the contaminated...
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...
China's leaders steer Games wrong way
By Christine Brennan - USA TODAYAugust 07, 2008 The popular notion is that the story of the Beijing Olympic Games begins this Friday night, 8.8.08, as the saying goes, with the opening ceremony in the glowing-red Bird's Nest. But that's...
Grieving quake parents want facts
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsJune 05, 2008 Parents fear there will not be a proper investigation into why so many schools collapsed in last month's earthquake in China. Many complain that although local authorities have promised to investigate, they...
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