The Chinese government is escalating its violent oppression of human rights lawyers, with several esteemed activists being forced to publicly confess their “crimes.”
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Four decades after the end of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese government official makes a speech echoing the Red Guard’s ultra-leftist sentiment. Could “politics in command” be experiencing a renaissance?
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Hamdy el-Gazzar highlights the Egyptian intellectual response to the arrests of twenty-four activists who were charged with “breaking the law of demonstrating, damaging public and private property and demonstrating power…”
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Tienchi Martin-Liao recounts this year’s June 4 vigil in Hong Kong and she counters the vacillation of a journalist who is seemingly “kowtowing to his patron”, the Chinese Communist Party.
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A new International Consortium of Investigative Journalists report lists over 21,000 people in China and Hong Kong – among them military and political leaders – with secret offshore holdings. Did China imprison activists and dissidents writers to divert attention from the corruption scandal?
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the contrasting treatment received by imprisoned Chinese dissidents and shares the personal accounts of Nobel Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, human rights activist and lawyer Teng Biao, and the writer and blogger Ran Yunfei.
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This week: political satire on the rise in China, Nigeria bans film on oil corruption, and a FOX reporter is threatened with jail for not revealing her sources.
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