Life under surveillance
Yuan Weijing (centre) is stopped by uniformed and plainclothes policemen as she leaves her home ©Private
Yuan Weijing is not your typical young Chinese mother. She spends her life under round-the-clock surveillance: she’s been beaten, harassed, taunted and threatened.
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Posted on 15 May 2008
Appealing to Google
Google recently held its AGM at its corporate headquarters in California. Amnesty International’s US section used the meeting to put forward a shareholder motion calling for the company to do more to fight censorship in China.
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Posted on 09 May 2008
World headlines – 16 May 2008
Jailed human rights defender Hu Jia, wearing a t-shirt in support of fellow activist Chen Guangcheng©Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan
In latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
China’s leaders try to control how the media report the catastrophic Sichuan earthquake, a New York Times reporter sneaks into greater Tibet and prisoner of conscience Hu Jia is transferred to another jail plus …
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Posted on 16 May 2008
Chinese find new ways to protest
People have a knack of finding ways around oppressive laws and repression of free speech. Some new and unusual methods are being used in China.
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Posted on 16 May 2008
World headlines – 15 May 2008
In today’s wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
A snapshot of Chinese newspaper editorials on the Sichuan earthquake, an expert dissects China’s role in the genocide in Darfur and looks at boycotts, and the Dalai Lama will speak to British parliamentary panel about human rights plus …
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Posted on 15 May 2008
A foreigner friendly Internet
©Pieter Fannes
Websites blocked, searches re-routed – it’s likely foreigners in China for the Olympics will see an exclusive version of the country’s notorious, heavily-censored Internet.
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Posted on 14 May 2008
Another Chinese journalist is jailed
Journalist Qi Chonghuai has been sentenced to four years in prison for fraud and extortion after a trial that lasted 12 hours, say his wife and lawyers.
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Posted on 14 May 2008
World headlines – 14 May 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The International Olympic Committee offers monetary aid after this week’s massive earthquake, how state censorship has put a Chinese actor is out of work and seven nuns are jailed for their part in March’s Tibetan protests plus …
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Posted on 14 May 2008
Weekly report: Growth + power = abuse?
China's rapid growth is often forgotten when analysing the country's human rights record, but these issues should not be ignored in the rush for super-power status, writes Antony Loewenstein.
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Posted on 14 May 2008
Numbers tell the story
Criminals sentenced to death during an open trial in Zhuzhou, in China's Hunan province in 2006©Private
Journalists in prison, crimes punishable by death, foreign correspondents arrested – check out how the figures stack up for China.
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Posted on 13 May 2008
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Help us tear down the Great Firewall of China!
Over the next three months we'll be constructing huge yellow 'walls' - representing the Chinese internet censorship regime - in major cities across Australia. We want members of the public to dismantle the walls, brick by brick, in the run-up to the Beijing Games. But we need your help!