VOA Reporters Detained While Interviewing Sun Wenguang
Two journalists working for the U.S. government-funded Voice of America were detained for about...
Aug 14, 2018
Two journalists working for the U.S. government-funded Voice of America were detained for about...
Feb 25, 2013
The Chinese made a record 83 million trips abroad last year, reflecting the increasing prosperity of the country’s growing middle class. But at least 14 million people, mostly Tibetans and Uyghurs, are denied the chance to...
Dec 21, 2012
12 writers from China are among the 41 who received Human Rights Watch’s 2012 Hellman/Hammett grants “for their commitment to free expression and their courage in the face of persecution”. The organisation...
Dec 5, 2011
Sources close to the family of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who has been under house arrest at his home in Linyi since late 2010, told Reuters on Monday that provincial government officials in Shandong have...
Apr 7, 2009
The New York Times reports on the beating suffered by Sun Wenguang, a 75-year-old retired university professor in Shandong, when he went to a cemetery to pay his respects to Zhao Ziyang on Qing Ming day: As he entered the...
Mar 22, 2008
Reuters reporter Benjamin Kang Lim writes from Beijing: A group of 29 Chinese dissidents urged Beijing on Saturday to open direct dialogue with Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in the wake of rioting in the...