Xi Jinping’s latest propaganda film, feeds the Chinese people more fake news.
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Tienchi Martin Liao bids farewell to Liu Xiaobo, an outspoken advocate for democracy and freedom of expression in China, who died a political prisoner on July 13, 2017.
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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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For Chinese activists government restrictions on their rights to move and travel are clear: once you’re in, you can’t get out, and once you’re out you can’t get in. Tienchi Martin-Liao highlights the cases of Li Jianhong and others who have tried to break through the “besieged fortress”.
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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, reflects on the five-year anniversary of imprisonment of dissident writer and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, his wife’s prolonged, Kafkaesque house arrest, the calls for solidarity from Chinese human rights activists, and the power of words.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the mass protests taking place in Hong Kong, sparked by the dissemination of The China Model to public schools. Many feel the booklet signals the start of a “brainwash” education.
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