Tag: Political prisoners

Ai Weiwei: The Voice Of Treason

Newsweek Magazine has interviewed artist/activist Ai Weiwei about his detention earlier this year and government requirements that he pay $2.4 million in back taxes: Desperate for interaction, Ai began to needle the guards to provoke a response. But they “just sat and stared at me with no expression. They were very young, and clean, and emotionless, like you were not there,” he says. With nothing

November 13, 2011 7:14 PM

Hexie Farm (蟹农场): Speech is Not a Crime

For his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab pays homage to imprisoned Nobel laureate

December 17, 2012 10:34 AM

China Rights Lawyer Allowed Visit by Family

Twenty months ago, lawyer and activist Gao Zhisheng was taken into custody and hasn’t been seen or heard from since

March 27, 2012 10:43 PM

China ‘Detains Tibetan Writer’

After the most recent wave of anti- Chinese protests and self-immolations, police have detained writer and cultural figu

February 19, 2012 1:49 PM

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