Two More Tibetans Self-Immolate
Two more self-immolations occurred today in Aba county, a hotbed for Tibetan protests in northwestern Sichuan province. The two young Tibetans, both laity, are the latest in a long string of self-immolators in Aba over the past year, the largest counts of which total 25 in the locale alone (of 35 in greater ethnic Tibet
April 19, 2012 11:28 AM
The Not-So-Great Firewall of China
In an article for Foreign Policy, Global Voices co-founder, former bureau chief of CNN Beijing, and digital free speech advocate Rebecca MacKinnon explores the paradoxes of China’s domestic censorship regime in the age of the Internet. MacKinnon describes flaws in the “Great Firewall,” and explains tha
April 18, 2012 12:42 PM
