Civil Society Advocates Face Charges, Interrogations
Wu Rongrong is a women’s rights activist who was detained for over a month along with four...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Apr 28, 2015
Wu Rongrong is a women’s rights activist who was detained for over a month along with four...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Apr 14, 2015
The five feminist activists who were held for five weeks in detention have been released under...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Sep 13, 2013
Police detained billionaire venture capitalist and outspoken civil society advocate Wang Gongquan...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Jul 30, 2013
Lawyer and activist Xu Zhiyong was detained on July 16 and remains in custody at the Beijing No. 3 Detention Center, although little information has been released about any potential charges against him. Lawyer Teng Biao...
Read MorePosted by Scott Greene | Aug 9, 2012
Beijing-based journalist Mary Magistad assesses the impact of the Weibo era on state-society relations in China as the microblogging service celebrates its third anniversary this month: “Before, it was very much one-way...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Dec 2, 2011
For Alliance Magazine, Karla Simon blogs about the easing of restrictions on the registration of civil society organizations in Guangdong Province: At a party working conference held at the end of November in China’s Guangdong...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Jan 11, 2011
China Media Project analyzes Chinese media content in light of the recent ban on the term “civil society”: It is true that banning a term such as “civil society” outright is a difficult proposition, and there are...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Dec 1, 2010
On China Beat, Yang Guobin writes about environmentalist Liang Congjie, who died in October, and his influence on civil society in China: Professor Liang’s role in the founding of Friends of Nature is well known. In my view, the...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Sep 22, 2010
Dr Daria Berg and Dr Andreas Fulda from the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK conducted the following interview with artist/activist Ai Weiwei in Beijing in June: Ai Weiwei discussed the...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Jul 31, 2009
In recent days, almost a month after violent riots in Xinjiang, journalists and netizens have reported a crackdown on civil society groups and online expression through a combination of tried-and-true methods (detaining...
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