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News About Uighur Scholar Ilham Tohti on the Third Anniversary of His Sentencing: No News
China Change, September 22, 2017
“We believe that the combination of reduced visits, denial of communication, gag orders, and family reprisals, have been carefully engineered to punish the Uighur scholar with degrading treatment and psychological torture, while at the same time keeping the attention on his plight from the outside world to a minimum.”
September 23, 2017, marks the 3rd anniversary of the Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s sentencing to life in prison for peacefully speaking out for the economic, cultural, political and religious rights of the 10 million Uighur people inhabiting the northwestern region known as Xinjiang.
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In Search of Better Digital Protection for Human Rights Defenders In China
Safeguard defenders, September 19, 2017 Among the many revelations into the systematic repression of the human rights community to have come to light…
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From Dr Wang Bingzhang, a Special Prayer on the 15th Anniversary of His Abduction by the Chinese Government
Yaxue Cao, September 18, 2017 Last Friday, Dr. Wang Bingzhang’s family – his wife, children and siblings in Canada and the U. S. –…
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From Sea to a Sea of Words: Poet Ensnared as China Shuts Down Commemoration of Liu Xiaobo
Yaxue Cao, September 14, 2017 It’s said that when Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) won the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2010, one of his…
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Taiwan Out of the UN: Unfair to Taiwan and Harmful to Global Interests
Yang Jianli, September 22, 2017 Recently, the long detained Taiwanese citizen and human rights activist Lee Ming-che appeared in a bogus trial in…
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A Comprehensive Bibliography of Liu Xiaobo’s Writings
Hermann Aubié, September 5, 2017 During the eight and a half years that Liu Xiaobo spent in Jinzhou prison, only intermittent attention…
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Why Is Wu Gan ‘The Butcher’ So Important?
Mo Zhixu, August 16, 2017 The Chinese original was first published in December, 2015. The importance of Wu Gan “the Super Vulgar Butcher”…
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Interview With Yu Zhijian, One of the ‘Three Hunan Hooligans’ Who Defaced the Portrait of Mao Zedong Over Tiananmen Square in 1989, Part Two
Liao Yiwu, June 2, 2017 (Continued from Part One) LIAO: I’ve heard some people say that if they had known blood was…
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Interview With Yu Zhijian, One of the ‘Three Hunan Hooligans’ Who Defaced the Portrait of Mao Zedong Over Tiananmen Square in 1989
Liao Yiwu, June 1, 2017 On the afternoon of May 23, 1989, sitting at home in a small town in Sichuan, poet Liao Yiwu…
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Wang Qiaoling, Wife of Lawyer Li Heping, Reflects on Life, Faith and the 709 Crackdown
Wang Qiaoling, May 26, 2017 This interview was conducted on May 5, 2017, three days before lawyer Li Heping returned home. – The Editors …
