Activist’s Mother Drops Defamation Lawsuit
Guangzhou-based labor organizer Zeng Feiyang was detained late last year along with several fellow...
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Activist’s Mother Sues Xinhua for Defamation
Chen Wenying, the mother of jailed labor activist Zeng Feiyang, is taking the rare action of suing...
Journalist Resisted Pressure to Confess During Detention
Last week, authorities closed the defamation case against journalist Liu Hu, who was detained for...
Defamation Case Against Journalist Dropped
South China Morning Post’s Jun Mai reports the final collapse of the defamation case against...
Minitrue: Journalist Freed After Year of Arrest
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Journalist’s Prosecution “Unable to Proceed” [Updated]
Reuters’ Ben Blanchard reports the release of New Express journalist Liu Hu, who was...
Sina Punishes More Than 100,000 Weibo Accounts
Paul Mozur at China Real Time reports restrictions on more than 100,000 Sina Weibo accounts for...
Lawyers Criticize “Straitjacket” for Online Rumors
China’s Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued a new...
The Retrial of Wu Baoquan
Southern Metropolis News gives an update on the case against Wu Baoquan, who was sentenced on libel charges after expressing support online for farmers fighting local officials over land rights. ESWN translates: In July, the...
Hu Yong: Defamation Can No Longer Be Used to Restrict Netizen Speech
Translated by Joshua Rosenzweig: The public security bureau in Mawei District, Fuzhou, recently detained Guo Baofeng and several other netizens. The lawyer for these detained netizens says that they were detained for posting or...
Joshua Rosenzweig: China’s Battle Over the Right to Criticize
In the Far Eastern Economic Review, Joshua Rosenzweig of the Duihua Foundation writes about the slew of recent defamation cases against people who criticize local officials: In recent weeks, China has been abuzz with talk about...
Recent Defamation Cases and Abuse of Local Power
In a number of recent cases, local officials have brought defamation or libel charges against citizens who criticized them. In discussing these cases on their blogs and in their writing, Chinese journalists and academics have...
Taiwan’s Ex-President Rejects Defamation Charges
From AFP: Taiwan’s former president Chen Shui-bian on Monday insisted he was not guilty of defamation claims brought against him, as opponents of the pro-independence leader protested outside the courthouse. Chen, who...
China’s Feudal County Cadres: “Defamed” and Dangerous – David Bandurski
On China Media Project, David Bandurski writes about how local county officials use their unrestrained power to bring “defamation” claims against their critics: While counties are beyond the gravitational pull of the center in Beijing, and sufficiently far from provincial centers of power, their leaders have comprehensive sets of public tools at their disposal — […]
Three cadres from Jishan, Shanxi punished for reporting questionable activities by local county secretary – Southern Metropolis Daily
The Peering into the Interior blog has translated an article from Southern Metropolis Daily (original Chinese here) “which details how the government went about prosecuting with vigilance three mid-level party cadres who accused the local secretary of “losing the will of the people” after selling land for real estate development when it was was intended […]
Journalist in Landmark Defamation Court Case – Raymond Li
Here is the second case reported this week of legal action taken by a journalist in China against a government official or agency. From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A senior Beijing-based journalist has taken the Qitaihe municipal government Office of Law and Order and its director, Liu Mingying, to court in […]
The Unpublished FoxConn Story – ESWN
From ESWN blog: The following is a translation of a blog post by Southern Weekend reporter Fu Jianfeng (ÂÇÖÂâëÈîã). This is about the FoxConn-versus-China Business News case that Fu and his colleagues were working on, but never go to publish it after a ban was issued on further coverage. So this is yet another case […]
Taiwan Firm Drops China iPod Libel Case – Reuters
From Reuters via the New York Times: A Taiwanese firm has dropped its libel claim against two Shanghai journalists and their newspaper for saying that workers at a plant manufacturing iPods were mistreated, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. Shenzhen-based Foxconn, which manufactures iPods for Apple Inc. , and the China Business News […]
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