Translation: Xia Lin Carries Something Precious
Rights defense lawyer Xia Lin has just been dealt a 12-year prison sentence for fraud, seeming...
Tan Zuoren
Rights Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang Arrested
Beijing police formally arrested prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang on Friday, on suspicion of...
Detentions Continue as Tiananmen Anniversary Nears
Yet more detentions have been added to the dozens already carried out ahead of the 25th...
Ai Xiaoming: Thinking of My Friends in Prison
Ai Xiaoming is a documentary filmmaker, activist, and professor of modern Chinese literature at...
Sensitive: PX Protests, Tigers, More
As of March 31, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
This Week on China Digital Times, March 28, 2014
Michelle Obama completed a weeklong trip to China but government censors required media outlets...
Badiucao (巴丢草): A Good Man is Going Home
For his latest cartoon, Badiucao honors activist Tan Zuoren, who was just released after serving a...
Cards For Humanity: Chinese Dissident Deck Reviewed
At Kotaku, Beijing Cream’s Anthony Tao and Charter 08 signer Wang Zhongxia review a deck of...
Pu Zhiqiang: How to Handle the Police
At Slate, William J. Dobson profiles renowned rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, a veteran of June 4th, Charter 08 signatory and friend of Liu Xiaobo, and defender of figures such as Ai Weiwei and Tan Zuoren. The profile is taken from...
Ai Weiwei Uncertain Whether to Pay Tax Bill as Donations Approach $1,000,000
Reuters reports that loans and other contributions to help Ai Weiwei pay a 15 million yuan (US$2.4 million) tax bill have created a pool of almost one million US dollars from over 20,000 donors so far. But having vowed to fight...
Ai Weiwei (艾未未) on Citizenship and Freedom
The 1984 BBS is a private online forum that has over 7000 registered members in China. Ai Weiwei, who had just returned to his Beijing home from an international trip few days earlier, was a special guest for a one hour online...
Activists, Journalists Ask NPC for Transparency in Sichuan Earthquake Investigation
For China Media Project, Qian Gang writes about Premier Wen Jiabao’s comments to the NPC meetings advocating public and media supervision of authorities, in which Wen stated, “We must let the people criticize the...
China Sentences Quake Activist to 5 Years’ Jail
Activist Tan Zuoren, who had been investigating the deaths of schoolchildren in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, has been sentenced to five years in prison after being tried in August. From AP: Attorney Pu Zhiqiang said activist Tan...
Video: Tan Zuoren’s Sichuan Earthquake Investigation
Documentary filmmaker Ai Xiaoming has posted a video (in Chinese) about activist Tan Zuoren’s investigation into schools that collapsed during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Tan has since been imprisoned and charged with...
US House Backs China Quake Activists
From AFP: The US House of Representatives on Saturday threw its support behind two Chinese activists put on trial after investigating whether shoddy construction led to children’s deaths in last year’s Sichuan...
Kerry Brown: China’s Shadow Sector: Power in Pieces
Kerry Brown is an associate fellow on the Asia programme, Chatham House. He is the author of Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century (2007), The Rise of the Dragon: Inward and Outward Investment in China in the Reform Period...
Hong Kong: Journalists Accused of Incitement
From the Global Voices: Last Friday (Sep 4), three Hong Kong journalists were beaten up and detained by Xinjiang armed polices when they were covering the protest in Urumqi. Yesterday, the authorities in Xinjiang claimed that...
Tan Zuoren’s Defense Statement
The defense plea entered by lawyers for activist Tan Zuoren at his trial on August 12 is circulating, though it is often being quickly erased. Nonetheless, many, including Tan’s lawyer Xia Lin, continue to discuss it. CDT...
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