Prisoner of conscience freed!
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Bu Dongwei was released from his re-education through labour sentence 4 months earlier. His release was kept quiet to keep him safe.
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Posted on 17 November 2008
China tells UN ‘we have zero tolerance for torture’
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China avoided the UN's questions and advised they had a policy of 'zero tolerance' towards torture.
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Posted on 12 November 2008
Foreign media given some access to Tibet
Australian journalists have been permitted a chaperoned visit to Lhasa, Tibet's capital.
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Posted on 07 November 2008
UN questions China on torture
China is due to appear before the UN Committee Against Torture today and officials will be questioned publicly about the use of torture.
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Posted on 07 November 2008
China announces human rights plan
In an unprecedent announcement, Chinese officials have stated there will be national plan to improve human rights protection in the country.
Posted on 05 November 2008
Danger for Falun Gong practitioners in Australia
The lack of freedoms in China have a real link to Australia in the form of Falun Gong practitioners seeking asylum here.
Posted on 03 November 2008
China in the headlines – 31 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The China Digital Times looks at how efforts to control information and shape online public opinion are evolving.
The Dalai Lama's envoys head to Beijing for talks with Chinese officials.
A Chinese business weekly has filed a lawsuit against the regional government, after it was shut down for stories it ran about a major state bank.
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Posted on 31 October 2008
Internet companies take one small step, but not enough
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Yahoo, Microsoft and Google have agreed to a code of conduct about how they do business in countries such as China, which restrict free speech.
Posted on 30 October 2008
The state of Chinese journalism
Hong Kong University's journalism program director, Ying Chan, talks about developments in the media in China.
Posted on 29 October 2008
China in the headlines – 29 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
China says it's still looking at talks with Tibet envoys, despite the Dalai Lama saying he has lost hope of agreement.
More reaction to the news that jailed Chinese rights activist Hu Jia has been awarded a major human rights prize.
Experience first-hand what Internet censorship is like for those living in Mainland China.
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Posted on 29 October 2008
Calls to stop Yang Jia’s execution
Chinese man Yang Jia could be put to death within a little as a week.
Posted on 27 October 2008
China in the headlines – 27 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The moral strength shown by jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia stands in sharp contrast to the state that persecutes him.
Two people have been killed and hundreds injured after a clash between protestors, a timber company and police.
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Posted on 27 October 2008
Chinese activist wins top human rights prize
Hu Jia near his home, after being released from incommunicado detention, in 2006. © Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan
Jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia has awarded Europe's most prestigious human rights honour, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought – it's a major acknowledgement of his work.
Posted on 24 October 2008
China in the headlines – 24 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
A Beijing-based pastor has been detained and his two sons beaten by public security officials.
A former vice mayor of Suzhou city is sentenced to death by a Chinese court.
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Posted on 24 October 2008
Death penalty appeal rejected in Yang Jia case
A Chinese court has rejected an appeal by Yang Jia who is facing the death penalty.
Posted on 22 October 2008
China in the headlines – 22 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The Olympic crackdown on dissidents in China has likely set the stage for lasting tighter controls, say critics.
China has issued a list of eight alleged Olympic terrorists – and they are all Uighurs, a repressed ethnic minority group.
A Tibetan monk jailed in March after he helped make a film about the Olympics and Tibet was severely tortured while in prison.
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Posted on 22 October 2008
Add a widget for human rights in China
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Add our China widget to your website or blog to encourage people to keep speaking up for human rights in China!
Posted on 21 October 2008
Breakthrough on media freedom in China
China's announcement it will extend the temporary Olympic media freedoms granted to foreign journalists is great news – but the freedoms should also be given to Chinese journalists.
Posted on 20 October 2008
China in the headlines – 20 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
A foreign correspondent gives his take on the news the China will extend the reporting freedoms it granted to overseas media for the Olympics.
More on new rules requiring all first time visitors to any of Beijing's more than 1500 Internet cafés be photographed.
A Beijing official who oversaw Olympic construction projects has been given a suspended death sentence.
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Posted on 20 October 2008
Call for China to extend its Olympic media freedom rules
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China's temporary rules that freed up reporting regulations for foreign journalists, in the run up to the Olympics, expire today.
Posted on 17 October 2008