From Reuters via the New York Times: Chinese police detained prominent dissident Hu Jia on Thursday morning, his family said, adding to the list of human rights activists held or harassed by the country’s dissent-wary government. Hu was taken away by plain-clothes police early in the morning, his wife Zeng Jinyan told Reuters. She said […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: Authorities in the Tibetan region of Karze (Ganzi, in Chinese) in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have detained a 16-year-old girl in connection with a crackdown on pro-independence leafleting last month, Tibetan sources said. Before her arrest, Yiwang was studying at Karze Middle School. Born in 1990, she studied at […]
Read MoreFrom an editorial in the New York Times: A strong United Nations force is needed to halt the genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region. If it is not sent soon, it may be too late for many thousands of potential victims. The immediate cause of the delay is the refusal by Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times Magazine: Early one morning in April 1998, a middle-aged Tibetan named Thupten Ngodup poured gasoline over himself in a public toilet in downtown New Delhi and struck a match. Outside, the Indian police were breaking up a hunger strike organized by the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence organization among […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS : It was a curious battle of flags, complete with a British tolerance for the other point of view. President Hu Jintao of China was to be accorded the finest of welcomes to the UK: An official hello from the Queen, a carriage ride up the Mall, flanked by the Household Cavalry, […]
Read MoreChelala writes in Tokyo Times that “During a recent visit to Beijing, U.N. rights envoy Louise Arbour called attention to the serious human-rights situation in China and the need for improvements according to international human-rights standards. An important step in that regard would be for China to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political […]
Read MoreNine months ago, I posted the list of 1041 filtered words from a file obtained by a Chinese hacker from a Chinese Internet company Tencent. This list was also cross checked with another two lists CDT independently received from...
Read MoreAt the conference “China: European and American Democracies Face the Challenge,” held on February 24 – 25, 2005, in Prague, Czech Republic (organized by the Czech Civic Center and the Project for New American Century), this author argues that “China’s economic growth has not been translated into meaningful protection of each and every Chinese citizens’ […]
Read MoreIt is an open secret that all Chinese Internet hosting services, including wireless and instant messenger services, filter user communication through key word blocking mechanisms. But overly vague and broad Chinese internet laws...
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