by Editor | Jan 11, 2019 | Arrests and Kangaroo Trials, Communist Regime
Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia Authorities in the Chinese capital have sentenced citizen journalist Ding Lingjie and two petitioners to jail for making a video ‘mocking’ President Xi Jinping during a holiday season crackdown on dissent.Ding was tried...
by Editor | Dec 24, 2018 | Arrests and Kangaroo Trials, Communist Regime
Holmes Chan | Hong Kong Free Press Authorities in mainland China will start the trial of detained human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang on the morning of December 26, according to his wife Li Wenzu. The announcement came three years after Wang was detained in the “709...
by Editor | Nov 6, 2018 | Arrests and Kangaroo Trials, Communist Regime
Karen Kao | Global Voices “The Cop and the Showgirl” sounds like the title of a hard-boiled detective novel. Or a screwball comedy with lots of feathered costumes. But this story is about Meng Hongwei, the supercop, and Fan Bingbing, the starlet—the most famous...
by Editor | Oct 16, 2018 | Arrests and Kangaroo Trials, Censorship
Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia A court in Shanghai has handed a suspended jail term and a fine to a developer who wrote software enabling people to get around the complex system of filters, blocks, and human censorship known as the Great Firewall, RFA has learned. The...
by Editor | Aug 17, 2018 | Arrests and Kangaroo Trials, Censorship
Yang Fan | Radio Free Asia China’s state-run media have launched a blistering attack on prominent freelance journalist Chen Jieren, who was detained last month on suspicion of “fraud” and running an “illegal business.” State news agency...
by Editor | Aug 2, 2018 | Arrests and Kangaroo Trials
VOA News Chinese police broke into the home of a retired Shandong University professor who is critical of China’s human rights record as he was expressing via a telephone interview his opinions on the Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin television show, Issues &...