On March 22, more than 500 activists for human rights and democracy in China, many of whom reside inside the People’s Republic of China, sent an open letter to EU Secretary General Javier Solana and President of the European Commission Jos√© Manuel Barroso. In the letter, they urge the EU to maintain its postponement of […]
Read MoreIn The Asian Wall Street Journal (16 March 2005), Wu’er Kaixi, a Tiananmen student leader, and is now exiled in Taiwan, writes, “in the standoff between the United States and Europe over lifting the Tiananmen Massacre arms embargo on China, I find myself on the side of George W. Bush, even if my reasons for […]
Read MoreIn a press release, Amnesty International finds that there were 200 executions reported in the two weeks leading up to the start of the lunar new year, 9 February: There were at least 650 executions reported in local media in the months of December and January alone. Both months are considered to be ‘normal’, without […]
Read MoreIn a press release on March 4, Reporters Without Borders “expressed dismay at the hounding of lawyer, Guo Guoting, after a Shanghai court on 4 March banned him from practising for one year for “anti-constitutional speeches and acts”. Urging Shanghai’s justice department to review its decision, the worldwide press freedom organisation said the ban would […]
Read MoreHoward French reports in the New York Times that the gathering of legislators and top political leaders offers a chance to measure the state of the art of Web censorship. The authorities set the tone earlier this week, summoning the managers of the country’s main Internet providers, major portals and Internet cafe chains and warning […]
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