Tag: Drinking tea

Chongqing Police Pressure Sex Video Whistleblower

The blogger who released a sex video that brought down Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu last year has refused to hand over footage of other officials despite threats of prison time for withholding evidence. Following a late-night visit to his Beijing home by Beijing and Chongqing police on Sunday, Zhu Ruifeng spent seven hours in talks at a police station on Monday, but would not give up the material for fear of incriminating his source. From Chang Meng and Li Xiang at Global Times:

January 29, 2013 2:37 AM

Murong Xuecun: The Transparent Chinese

In his latest New York Times op-ed, writer Murong Xuecun writes about the impact that persistent surveillance of government critics has on Chinese

November 17, 2013 10:19 PM

Bloggers, and Government, Respond to Pig Crisis

As close to 15,000 (and counting) pig carcasses are being pulled from the Huangpu River, the story has become a hot topic on weibo and elsewhere online

March 22, 2013 11:48 AM