Independent bookstores are in the crosshairs of the CCP’s crackdown on free expression. One bookseller likens his situation to “smuggling drugs instead of selling books.”
China detains prominent artist, citizen journalist as crackdown on dissent escalates
When domestic challenges grow more serious, the dissident community pays the price, human rights advocates say.
Stand News editors found guilty in landmark sedition case
A litmus test case delivers an ominous verdict for the future of press freedom in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong’s freedoms: what China promised and how it’s cracking down
“Beijing’s ideal scenario is to keep Hong Kong as a financial center without all the freedom.” But freedom, it seems, has been a key driver of Hong Kong’s success.
Chinese writer and PEN America honoree marks one year in detention
“At every turn, the government has chosen to double-down on repression, rather than to permit Xu [Zhiyong] and [partner] Li [Qiaochu] the basic human right to express themselves freely.” PEN America calls […]
In Hong Kong, a publisher struggles to document Tiananmen’s Carnage
“Authors are afraid to publish. Publishers are afraid to continue doing business. Distributors are also afraid. Bookstores are diminishing and people there are afraid, too. So are the buyers, of course. It’s […]
China puts rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang on trial as police scuffle with diplomats and protesters
As President Xi’s crackdown on dissent continues, China’s most prominent human rights lawyer awaits sentencing on the “vague charges” leveled against him. Meanwhile, many of the 200 human rights lawyers authorities rounded up in July, in a major nationwide sweep, remain behind bars. The Los Angeles Times reports.
In China’s crackdown on rights lawyers, big law says little
Chinese authorities are well aware how governments and bar organizations around the world feel about their fierce crackdown on human-rights lawyers. But the country’s commercial lawyers—including international firms active in China—have been relatively quiet. Why so? The American Lawyer reports.
Beijing social think-tank shut down amid crackdown
(July 20, 2013) On the heels of anti-graft campaigner Xu Zhiyong’s detention, authorities continue to get tough on rights activists as they endure another wallop of repression, shutting down a Beijing-based think tank. The move is seen as payback for activists who have called on government leaders to declare their assets, and on lawyers who defend “sensitive” cases.
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