Political turmoil in Bangladesh reached a climax this month as a student-led protest movement ousted Sheikh Hasina from her 15-year tenure as prime minister. The movement began with peaceful protests against a quota system for...
This month, there have been a number of incidents—some major and some minor—that illustrate the “U-lock” mentality, a phrase that is sometimes used as shorthand to describe vitriolic xenophobic (particularly anti-Japanese)...
A Hong Kong court has convicted three people of rioting, jailing them for at least four years despite a lack of evidence that they played any role in the riot. This is the latest conviction since a higher court upheld the...
On Wednesday, January 6, a mob incited by President Donald Trump attacked the United States Capitol, forcing Congress to temporarily abandon a joint session called to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral college...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
After a state-owned Chinese oil company towed a rig into disputed waters in the South China Sea on...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Typhoon Fitow landed in southeastern China last week, devastating many populated regions. Over the...
Al Jazeera reports on a Chinese flag installed in a mosque in Aksu, western Xinjiang Autonomous...
Days of unrest in several areas of Xinjiang prompted Chinese officials to order a 24-hour military patrol in some parts of the region over the weekend, with authorities confirming that police even fired shots at a large crowd of...
Local authorities in Xinjiang have confirmed that police on Friday fired at up to 400 ethnic Uyghurs protesting the arrest of a young religious leader and closure of a mosque near the town of Hotan, according to Radio Free Asia:...
Just after riots in Turpan, Xinjiang killed 35 people, unrest broke out in southern Xinjiang. The unrest comes ahead of the fourth anniversary of violent riots in Urumqi, the regional capital, in which close to 200 people died....
The death toll from riots in Xinjiang on Wednesday morning has risen to 35, according to Xinhua News, which called the incident a “violent terrorist attack:” The attack occurred at 5:50 a.m. Wednesday in Lukqun...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to these instructions as “Directives from the Ministry...
Xinhua reports that 27 people were killed in riots in Xinjiang on Wednesday morning: The riots happened at around 6 a.m. in Lukqun township of Shanshan County in Turpan Prefecture. Knife-wielding mobs attacked the...
Corruption surrounding China’s college entrance exam (gaokao)—the world’s largest standardized test—has long been noted, and every year schemes to cheat on this future-determining rite of passage become widely...
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org (Participate) and date from 2005...
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