From Reuters: China has formally arrested a lawyer who helped farmers in the southern province of Guangdong try to eject their village chief after a suspicious land deal, U.S.-based Radio Free Asia said. Guo Feixiong was detained about three weeks ago following clashes between police and residents of Taishi village, in the district of Panyu. […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via MSN Money Chinese authorities have shut down an online discussion forum that reported on anti-corruption protests in a village in the country’s south as well as a Web site serving ethnic Mongolians, overseas monitors said Tuesday… Radio Free Asia, a U.S.-based broadcaster, said an online forum that covered protests in the village […]
Read MoreThanks to Professor Rudolph Wagner of the University of Heidelberg for the following information: Yannan.cn, a Beijing-based website that over the last year had emerged as the foremost forum for intellectual discussion and cutting-edge thinking in China, has closed down effective Oct. 1. A note says: “Effective today, Yannan.cn has closed for cleansing up and […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: A well-known Chinese BBS (bulletin board system) has decided to put an stop to heated public discussions about grassroots democracy in a southern Chinese village and the brutal murder of four people by a migrant worker in Ningxia. The Yannan Community posted an official announcement on Wednesday September 21, urging all forum administrators […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Villagers in southern China have vowed to continue their protest against alleged local corruption following their arrest for a hunger strike. More than 80 people in Taishi village, Guangdong province, refused food on Wednesday because they said the local authorities had ignored their concerns. Seventeen of them were arrested on Thursday morning […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Once a hamlet of rice and vegetable farmers, Taishi Village now lies near the epicenter of southern China’s export-driven transformation, and many of its 2,000 residents work in factories and live in two- and three-story houses. But in recent weeks villagers have waged a bitter, sometimes violent, struggle with the […]
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