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IPI Condemns Killing of Chinese Journalist
The International Press Institute is deeply disturbed by the killing of a Chinese journalist, who was beaten to death while investigating an unlicensed coalmine. China Trade News reporter Lan Chengzhang,…
Environmental Activist Sun Xiaodi Faces Stepped-up Harassment after International Award
By HRIC Jan 2, 2007 – 5:59:08 PM Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that Gansu-based activist Sun Xiaodi is facing serious harassment by local officials and unknown persons,…
Chief Editor of Baixing Magazine is ordered to leave
By Boxun Dec 30, 2006 – 11:01:03 PM On December 31, 2006, Chief Editor of Baixing Magazine – Mr. Liangtian Huang – was ordered to leave. Mr. Huang was told…
Hu Jia : Chen Guangcheng lawyers Li Fangping and Li Jinsong assaulted violently and wounded in Linyi City
By Hu Jia ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2006/12/200612270843.shtml The following is based on a text message sent by Lawyer Li Jinsong this morning. 04:59 Emergency report. Li…
Doctors and Nurses Wear Helmet
A hospital in Shenzhen, the city next to Hong Kong, started to arm doctors and nurses with helmet. It claimed that doctors were in danger of being attacked by angered…
Christmas in China
Video by Sun Lin Christmas is not an official holiday in China, but businesses are making it a season for sales…
Gege Story -Contemporary Version of Jenny’s Diary in Beijing
By Hu Jia 15th Dec, 2006, Beijing, Friday, Gege, the daughter of Lawyer Gao, a 13 year-old cute little girl did not go to school because of fever. This is…
Liu Jianhua receives 20-year sentence for “revealing state secrets”
By RSF Dec 28, 2006 – 2:28:48 PM (RSF/IFEX) – Journalist Ching Cheong, seriously ill and serving a five-year sentence for “spying”, spent his 57th birthday in prison on 22…
Journalist Gao Qinrong released five years early
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has expressed huge relief at the early release of journalist Gao Qinrong, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 1999 for exposing a…
Internet fuels rise in number of jailed journalists
By CPJ New York, December 7, 2006—The number of journalists jailed worldwide for their work increased for the second consecutive year, and one in three is now an Internet blogger,…
Restrictions loosened for foreign journalists ahead of Olympic Games
By RSF Reporters Without Borders has hailed a foreign ministry decision, taken under international pressure, to loosen regulations for foreign journalists working in China. From the beginning of January 2007…
Sun Xiaodi Receives International Nuclear Activism Award
By HRIC Boxun Photo: Sun Xiaodi-On the left in rear Gansu-based activist Sun Xiaodi, who has spent more than a decade petitioning the central authorities over radioactive contamination from the…
