From The Age (link): ON THE mainland, Chinese schoolchildren are taught that General Chiang Kai-shek, the Nationalist leader who tried but failed to exterminate the communists and fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing the civil war to Mao Zedong, is a traitor. So the installation of a life-size wax figure of the Generalissimo in […]
Read MoreFrom Committee to Protect Journalists (link): The word from the village of Dongzhou was growing dire last December 6. Security officers were clashing with residents over the local government’s seizure of land for a power plant. Official force, villagers said, was escalating. “I called them every hour, and it kept getting worse. First it was […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Guardian Unlimited (link): A veteran Chinese dissident writer was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday on subversion charges, his lawyer said. Yang Tianshui was found guilty after a half-day closed-door trial in the eastern city of Zhenjiang, lawyer Li Jianqiang said. Li declined to give details of the evidence presented against […]
Read MoreFrom Spero News (link): China Aid Association (CAA) is reporting that is has learned that in the past two weeks multiple arrests of house church pastors occurred at Shandong and Jiangsu Provinces. CAA says that one pastor from South Korea was expelled by the Chinese security agency and a prominent Chinese legal scholar and rights […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): Chinese authorities have arrested four newspaper reporters for extortion and called on the press to ensure such incidents do not happen again, the official Xinhua news agency said. The journalists worked for the Economic Daily, China Food Quality Newspaper and two other publications, Xinhua said in a report issued late on Monday, […]
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