As its international image weakens, the Chinese government attempts to keep exiled Chinese writers silent by persecuting their families back home.
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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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Journalist Judith Torrea’s blog, “Juárez, Under the Shadow of Drug Trafficking,” wins this year’s BOB Award for “Reporters Without Borders”, organized by Germany’s Deutsche Welle. Torrea’s blog covers drug cartel activities, government repression and police corruption in northern Mexico.
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