Documentary Shows Tide Turn Against Labor Activism
The conviction last September of three prominent labor activists for “gathering crowds to disturb...
Zeng Jinyan
Translation: Love, a Decisive Moment
Li Jingrui published the reflection on love and her political awakening translated below to her...
Civil Society’s Diminishing “Space to Negotiate”
Amid ongoing arrests of civil society activists and proposed legislation that would limit the...
China Targets Family, Friends to Coerce Activists
The Associated Press’ Didi Tang reports on the pressure applied to friends and families of...
An Interview with Zeng Jinyan
At The China Story, Elisa Nesossi talks to Zeng Jinyan about activism, human rights, filmmaking and blogging. Zeng highlights the underappreciated contributions and sacrifices of female activists and family members, as well as...
Gmail Users Warned of State-Sponsored Attacks
Google has begun to issue warnings to people whose accounts or computers it believes may have been targeted by unnamed state-sponsored actors. The announcement on the company’s security blog did not specify any particular...
Sensitive Words: Chen Guangcheng and More
As of April 29, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Attempted Visits to Chen Guangcheng Surge
The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs reports on the gathering momentum of efforts to visit civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng and his family, who have been held under house arrest since Chen’s release from prison in...
Prominent China Dissident Hu Jia Freed from Jail: Wife
After three and a half years in prison, activist Hu Jia has been released and returned home to be with his wife and young daughter. From Reuters: Hu was convicted in 2008 for “inciting subversion of state power” for...
Zeng Jinyan: China Votes … On the Internet
On Probe International, activist Zeng Jinyan, whose activist husband Hu Jia is currently in prison, puts together a snapshot of the Internet-enabled independent candidacies for local political office: Some 30 netizens from...
Wife of Jailed China Activist Tells of Eviction Effort
Zeng Jinyan, the wife of imprisoned dissident Hu Jia, has been tweeting in recent days about efforts by authorities in Shenzhen to kick her and her young daughter out of their apartment, just days before her husband is scheduled...
Out of Jail in China, but Not Free
In the New York Times, Did Kirsten Tatlow writes about Zeng Jinyan, wife of imprisoned activist Hu Jia, their three-year-old daughter, and the history of house arrest in China: Baobao’s questions about her father’s incarceration...
Chinese Human Rights Activists Claim their Google Emails Were Hacked
From the Telegraph: The activists, who include one of China’s foremost artists and a Tibetan student in the United States, came forward after Google announced it had suffered a “highly sophisticated” cyber attack in December,...
Zeng Jinyan: Concerns for Health of Hu Jia in Beijing Prison
Thanks to a translator who prefers to remain anonymous for providing the following: In her blog entry of April 25, Zeng Jinyan discusses how on April 22 she went with their one-year-old child to visit her husband, activist Hu...
Visits To Jailed China Activist Curbed After Award
From AP: Chinese authorities have curbed visits to an imprisoned dissident who was awarded the European Parliament’s top human rights award, his wife said. Zeng Jinyan said she was told of the restriction during a...
China Dissident Wins Rights Prize
BBC reports on the awarding of the Sakharov Prize to Hu Jia and a video message from his wife, Zeng Jinyan, to the European Parliament: Ms Zeng told the parliament Mr Hu had hoped to be China’s last prisoner of conscience...
China 2008: Human Rights
This next installment in the CDT series on important issues facing China in 2008 concerns the state of human rights in China. See also these previous China 2008 articles: China and the Developing World, Nationalism, Internet...
Deutsche Welle Announces International Weblog Awards
Deutsche Welle’s International Weblog Awards (The BOBs) have been announced. Generación Y, a Cuban blog written by Yoani Sanchez won the Jury Prize for Best Blog. Among many nominated Chinese blogs, Liu Xiaoyuan’s...
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