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A Glimpse into Tuidang
Tuidang background story 2 — Zhang Peng
This video was first published on April 13th, 2008 Zhang Peng, was a college tutor in his hometown of Hanyang City in Hunan Province, China. In his spare time he studied economics, history, and law. After passing the national lawyer's certification test, he worked as...
Tuidang background story 1 — Li Ming
This video was first published on April 13th, 2006 Li Ming, a Chinese woman from Beijing, says she fully understands how 1.5 billion people in China are actually constantly under threat. She was imprisoned seven times and tortured in over 50 difference ways in the...
Tuidang background story 3 — Hu Zhiming
This video was first published on April 13th, 2009 Once a respected and relatively privileged member of Chinese society, Hu Zhiming found himself escaping his homeland on foot, crossing the border into Thailand and eventually immigrating to the United States. He had...
China Watch
Shanghai Court Hands Suspended Jail Term to VPN Software Developer
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...
Thousands of Chinese Army Veterans March Over Police Beatings
Wong Siu-san and Lau Siu-fung | Radio Free Asia Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong have sealed off a city after thousands of People's Liberation Army (PLA) veterans converged there over a weekend of protests and clashes over police beatings of...
US says Hong Kong bid to expel Financial Times journalist ‘deeply troubling’, as activists stage protest
Kris Cheng | Hong Kong Free Press The US Consulate General in Hong Kong has said the government’s decision not to renew a work visa for the Financial Times’ Asia News Editor is “deeply troubling,” as activists staged a protest on Saturday. Victor Mallet, a British...
Acceptance Speech for the 2018 Annual Disturbing the Peace Literary Prize for a Courageous Writer at Risk
Liao Yiwu | China Change This article was first published in China Change website on September 27, 2018, New York City I thank the award committee for conferring this honor upon me. The award is named for Vaclav Havel’s first work, his autobiography Disturbing the...
Berlin-Based Ibsen Play Cancelled and Silenced in China
VISION TIMES The 19th-century play by Henrik Ibsen called An Enemy of the People has been canceled from screening in China after the initial shows evoked an outburst of anti-government comments from the audience, highlighting how ridiculous and insecure the Communist...
Chinese Labour NGOs Reconsidering their Role Under Pressure from Government Crackdown
Ivan Franceschini and Kevin Lin | Hong Kong Free Press We’ve entered a grey area: we’re not organisations anymore, and maybe in the future, we’ll be reduced to only a few individuals. This was the ominous prediction of one Chinese labour activist in Shenzhen in...
