Olympians may face punishment for speech crimes if they criticize China while competing in Beijing, a member of the Beijing Organizing Committee warned in a press conference Tuesday. Prior to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the...
With the Beijing Winter Olympics less than one month away, activists have seized the moment to spotlight China’s human rights violations and corporate complicity in said violations. On Tuesday, Tibetan and Uyghur activists from...
Last Thursday, the Uyghur Tribunal delivered its judgment assessing evidence of the Chinese government’s alleged genocide of the Uyghur minority. Acting as an independent “people’s tribunal” and equipped with moral credibility...
Der Spiegel revisits the case of legal activist Ji Sizun, who was detained during the Olympics a year ago after applying to stage a protest in the government-established “protest parks,” and the lawyer, Liu, who is...
From Edward Wong of The New York Times: On Monday, a 62-year-old woman named Zhong Ruihua who traveled from southern China to Beijing during the Paralympics to conduct a protest is scheduled to go on trial for disturbing the...
From The International Herald Tribune: A legal advocate who was arrested after applying to hold a legal protest in Beijing during the Olympics in August has been sentenced to three years in prison, said a lawyer who has been...
This next installment in the CDT series on important issues facing China in 2008 concerns the state of human rights in China. See also these previous China 2008 articles: China and the Developing World, Nationalism, Internet...
From USA Today: China’s government was so concerned about the possibility of athlete demonstrations in the Beijing Olympics that it created a list of nine U.S. athletes and one assistant coach it thought might cause...
According to a Xinhua news report, the three demonstration parks in Beijing will officially cease to function after having serve its purpose during the two Olympic games. The three parks in downtown Beijing designated as...
The New York Times reports on a group of people who traveled to Beijing intending to hold a protest during the Olympics against the unjust loss of property: Some of the group left their hide-out, an apartment in a northern...
The Economist writes about a spate of protests that have sprung up after the Olympics concluded, including one in a Beijing suburb by residents angered by the stench from a local landfill: The authorities take a dim view of...
Vanity Fair interviews two American activists who were arrested in Beijing after participating in pro-Tibet protests during the Olympics: For years, Watterberg has lived a double life. By trade, he’s a bartender and rocker in...
From AFP: Two Chinese grandmothers sentenced to re-education through labour for applying to protest during the Olympics will escape punishment as the order has been rescinded, a rights group said Saturday. The Beijing municipal...
James Powderly, the artist activist recently arrested in Beijing for participating in pro-Tibet protests, talks about his experience in Beijing for Artnet News: The real cloak-and-dagger part of Powderly’s adventure began when...
The PBS Mediashift site has an insider’s account of how a Reporters Without Borders activist broadcast a 20-minute human rights message via FM radio from the Beijing International Media Center, 12 hours before the Olympics...
Eight Americans and a Briton who were serving ten-day sentences for staging pro-Tibet protests during the Olympics have been released, according to the Washington Post: Top diplomats at the U.S. and British embassies earlier in...
As Nepalese and Chinese officials met this weekend for diplomatic discussions, Nepal’s Tibetan refugees staged their final protests of the Olympic Games. Nepal houses over 20,000 Tibetan refugees, but has sided with the...
The Chicago Tribune’s Evan Osnos follows one woman’s quest to prove China’s commitment to free speech during Games: Shortly before the Olympics, the Chinese government announced the creation of special...
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