Minireview: 2018 in Censorship (Oct-Dec)
This series is a recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in...
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LatestMinireview: 2018 in Censorship (Jan-Oct)
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
Minitrue: How to Report on the NPC (Etc), Part 4
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Cover-up of the Week: Death by Drinking Boiled Water
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Housing Activists Sentenced for “Picking Quarrels”
Housing rights activists Jia Lingmin and Liu Diwei were both given prison sentences today in...
Religious Affairs Bureau to Probe Shaolin Abbot
The abbot of Henan’s Shaolin Monastery, the Chan Buddhist institution famous for being the...
Christian Pastor Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison
Christian pastor Zhang Shaojie has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud and...
Crackdown Stymies China Church’s Christmas Meeting
The AP reports that a Christian congregation’s Christmas meeting in Nanle county, Henan...
Censorship Vault: Henan AIDS Villages
The following propaganda directive was first published by Reporters Without Borders. Henan...
Censorship Vault: Sit-In Over Pork
Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the...
Battle Continues Against Henan’s Tomb Razers
Global Times’ Liang Chen revisits the “seesaw battle” over grave demolitions in Henan, which began last year with a heavy-handed campaign of land reclamation. Locals suspected that this was to make way for...
Ministry of Truth: Wang Dexue’s Tears
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by central government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Central Propaganda Department: With regards to State Administration of Work Safety Vice...
Ten Imprisoned for Illegally Detaining Petitioners
Xinhua reported on Tuesday that ten people from Henan have received prison sentences for wrongfully imprisoning petitioners in Beijing, and must also pay compensation. Wang Gaowei and his other nine accomplices, natives of...
Illegal Orphanage Fire Leaves 7 Dead
Amid concerns about childrens’ safety due to recent traffic accidents involving children and knife attack at a primary school, the BBC reports a fire at an orphanage in Henan has left seven children dead: Four children...
China Takes Chilling Look at Security in Its Schools
Initial comparisons between the Newtown and Chenpeng school attacks this month tended to focus on the attackers’ weapons. Many noted that the 23 slashed in China all survived, in contrast with the 26 killed in Connecticut....
China Cracks Down on Apocalypse Rumors
As China braces for the end of the world, the Washington Post reports China has detained 93 people including members of a quasi-Christian cult who claim that the world will end in a few days: Scores and perhaps hundreds of...
22 School Children Injured in Knife Attack
Xinhua News reports that a man stabbed twenty-two children and a villager at a primary school in China’s Henan Province early Friday morning, according to local officials: Local police said they had seized the suspect, a...
Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (28)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
