Death Sentence for “Faking” Wife’s Self-Immolation
A Sichuan court sentenced 32-year-old Drolma Gya to death and deprivation of political rights on...
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Human Rights in China Deteriorating, Says U.S.
U.S. officials gave a gloomy assessment following annual bilateral meetings on human rights in Kunming this week. From Tania Branigan at The Guardian: “I think we have continued to see a deterioration in the overall...
Read MoreHexie Farm (蟹农场): Behind the Wall
For his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab comments on Beijing’s policies toward ethnic minorities. President Xi Jinping, depicted as a dishonest Pinocchio, is declaring the official...
Read MoreDislocation and Unrest in China’s West
Following the release last week of a Human Rights Watch report on relocation and resettlement in Tibet, High Peaks Pure Earth translates Tibetan writer Woeser’s description of a return visit to one uprooted community: I...
Read MoreChina Says Self-Immolation Linked to Domestic Crime
CDT previously reported on two recent self-immolations, one of which was Kunchok Wangmo, a Tibetan woman. The Guardian reports Chinese authorities are now saying that the immolation was linked to domestic violence: Exile groups...
Read MoreBBC, VOA Protest Radio Jamming
The British Broadcasting Corporation and Voice of America have both issued statements protesting the jamming of their shortwave radio broadcasts into China: The BBC has received reports that World Service English shortwave...
Read MoreFlames Of Protest: The History Of Self-Immolation
In the week since news emerged of the 100th Tibetan self-immolation within China’s borders since 2009, four more cases have been reported. Most recently, according to Dharamsala-based Phayul.com, a pair of teenaged former...
Read More70 People Detained for Inciting Self-Immolations
As part of an intensified crackdown on self-immolations by Tibetans protesting Beijing’s policies in Tibetan regions, the Chinese government has detained dozens of people and cast blame on U.S.-government funded...
Read MoreTang Danhong: Fire Between Dark and Cold
Tang Danhong is a poet and filmmaker from Chengdu, Sichuan. She currently lives in Israel. She blogs at Moments of Samsara [zh] and tweets @DanHongTang. This essay was first published January 2013 in Hong Kong’s Open Magazine...
Read MoreChina Ranks Low on 2012 Press Freedom Index
Global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders recently released the 2011-2012 Press Freedom Index, and once again China came in at the very bottom reaches of the international rankings – just ahead of Iran and Syria...
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