On April 10, civil rights lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were sentenced to 14 and 12 years in prison, respectively, on charges of “subversion of state power” after closed door trials in Linshu County, Shandong. The charges...
At The Atlantic, Brian Fung contemplates the longevity of the widely derided 80s buzzword “netizens” as a label for China’s politically engaged online population: Even in China, the word has grown a little...
Vocal dissident and rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong published a blog post translated New Citizens Movement on May 29th. In it, he discussed the nature of “the New Citizen” and the necessity in China of a movement based on...
Born in 1948，Jiang Qisheng (江棋生) entered People’s University in Beijing as a PhD candidate in Philosophy, in Fall 1988. He participated in the 1989 Tiananmen students movement, and was arrested and imprisoned in Qincheng...
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