Sophie Beach
Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Protest editor sent to ‘research room’ – Richard Spencer
From The Telegraph (link): Chinese journalists who cross their government are often fired and sometimes jailed. So its most famous banned editor is lucky: he is only being sent to the “new study research room”. Li Datong, who has just suffered this fate for a second time, infuriated the Communist Party’s propaganda department by taking […]
Read MoreChina hunger report – Mary Kay Magistad
The Public Radio International program the World reports on the ongoing hunger strike by activists in China and the role played by the Internet (link): A hunger strike in China has grown to include possibly hundreds of people across the country. Chinese authorities are cracking down on the strikers. But as The World’s Mary Kay […]
Read MoreOlympics: Now it’s China’s turn – John Roderick
From the AP, via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (link): Now that the winter Olympians have stolen away from Italy with their skis, skates and polished granite curling stones, the eyes of the sports world turn with rising excitement to the 2008 summer games in Beijing. The excitement has been stirred by an irony of history. It […]
Read MoreChina charges journalist after half-year detention – AFP
From the AFP (link): A Chinese journalist has been charged with inciting subversion for posting politically sensitive essays on the Internet, his wife said Monday. Li Yuanlong, a journalist with the Bijie Daily newspaper in Guizhou Province in southern China, was charged with “inciting subversion of state sovereignty” by the local district court this month, […]
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