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- Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Li Xiang, a
journalist with Luoyang Television in Luoyang (in the eastern province
of Henan) who had been following an illegal cooking oil scandal and had written...Read more»
- Four members of the Uighur minority have been sentenced to death over attacks in China's restive Xinjiang province, which left 32 people dead. The men were found guilty of murder, arson and running a terrorist organisation...Read more»
- The authorities continue to reinforce their control of the Internet in China, which held its 10th annual China Internet Conference on 23 August in Beijing. Use of the Internet has grown enormously in recent years...Read more»
- Thirteen U.S.-based scholars who collaborated on a book about Xinjiang have since been barred from traveling to China, the Washington Post reports: The academics have taken to calling themselves the Xinjiang...Read more»
- The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) unequivocally condemns Chinese government policies that have caused another outbreak of violence in East Turkestan. Without a substantial change to policies that discriminate...Read more»
- Kashgar and Hotan, historic centres of Uighur and Islamic culture in the south of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, have been the scene of recent bloodshed. The reasons behind the violence in these two cities...Read more»
- Media banned from covering Wenzhou high-speed train disaster properly
Reporters Without Borders condemns the severe restrictions that the Propaganda Department has imposed on media coverage of the high-speed...Read more»
- Hong Kong, July 23, 2011—As PEN members from around the world gather to
celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Independent
Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) today in Hong Kong, a number of writers...Read more»
- Uyghurs dispute the official version of events that led to riots in China's Xinjiang region. Bloody clashes in China's restive western region of Xinjiang that may have left about 20 people dead erupted after Chinese police...Read more»
- Reporters Without Borders condemns the closure of the investigations unit at the daily China Economic Times (中国经济时报) at the behest of the newspaper’s management on 18 July and is concerned about the fate of...Read more»
- Reporters Without Borders hails today’s decision by Taiwanese TV
satellite operator Chunghwa Telecom (中華電信) to continue broadcasting the
privately-owned TV station New Tang Dynasty Asia Pacific (新唐人電視臺)...Read more»
- Hu Jia’s wife, Zeng Jinyan, threatened with eviction
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the Chinese government’s
utterly unacceptable persecution of Zeng Jinyan, the wife of the jailed
cyber-dissident Hu Jia...Read more»
- Kazakh authorities 'manipulated' monitoring organizations to deport a Uyghur refugee. Authorities in Kazakhstan fed contradicting accounts about the background of a Uyghur refugee to organizations monitoring his...Read more»
- He is bundled across the Kazakh border to China by Chinese secret police. Kazakhstan has deported to China an ethnic Uyghur wanted by Beijing for speaking up on torture and death in Chinese jails, placing his life in...Read more»
- Reporters Without Borders condemns the Chinese government’s decision to
rein in Internet service in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, which
has been experiencing a growing wave of protests since 10 May. “Yet again...Read more»
- Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the trumped-up charges of
“illegal business activities” and “drug possession” that the Chinese
authorities have brought against the wife and son of Hada, the Mongolian...Read more»
- The press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders will be present on many fronts on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day. For the 10th year running, it will publish a new list of Predators of Press Freedom – politicians...Read more»
- The Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet (Republic), a leading newspaper in favour of secularism and democratization, has recently held a full page interview with Ms Marian Botsford Fraser, PEN Int'l Chair of Writers in Prison....Read more»
- China's best-known artist, Ai Weiwei, has been detained in Beijing and police have searched his studio, confiscated computers and questioned assistants. The 53-year-old remains uncontactable more than...Read more»
- Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that cyber-dissident Liu Xianbin was sentenced to ten years in jail today on a charge of inciting subversion of state authority after his right to a proper legal...Read more»
- BBC News: A Chinese democracy activist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for inciting subversion of state power. A Chinese democracy activist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for inciting subversion of...Read more»
- Cyber-censors turn the screw on Internet users. Google accused the Chinese authorities today of being behind problems with its email service, Gmail. Since the end of February, Chinese users have reported...21-03-2011Read more»
- European Parliament resolution on Kashgar: European Parliament resolution on the situation and cultural heritage in Kashgar (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China) RC-B7-0168/2011. - having regard to the UN...Read more»
- Uyghur Historian Given 7 Years. The website manager went missing following the July 2009 ethnic violence in China's northwest. The map shows Tursunjan Hezim's hometown Aksu city, in China's northwestern...6-03-2011Read more»
- Amnesty International: Chinese crackdown on Uighur writers continues as web editor jailed. An ethnic Uighur website manager who was sentenced to seven years in jail in China after a secret trial is the latest...7-03-2011Read more»
- National Congress urged to consider problem of fundamental rights. Reporters Without Borders urges the 3,000 delegates attending the annual 10-day plenary session of the National People’s Congress...3-03-2011Read more»
- Police violence against journalists, invitations to tea. Police officers roughed up foreign journalists trying to cover a protest yesterday on Beijing’s Wangfujing Street, including a Bloomberg News reporter...3-03-2011Read more»
- Three French journalists physically attacked for trying to approach human rights lawyer. Several foreign journalists have reported being forcibly turned back by thugs in the past few days when trying to approach...16-02-2011Read more»
- Chinese authorities increase restrictions on a Uyghur economist to include his wife and children. Ilham Tohti, an economist at Beijing’s Central Nationalities University, said he had been approached by...10-02-2011Read more»
- Human rights lawyer beaten by police over secret video of his house arrest. A famous self-taught human rights lawyer and free speech activist, Chen Guangcheng, has reportedly been badly beaten by police...11-02-2011Read more»
- Long-standing Uighur grievances behind repeated protests must be addressed. February 5 marks the 14th anniversary of a violent crackdown on peaceful Uighur protesters by security forces in the city of Gulja...04-02-2011Read more»
- The assassination of freedom of expression. Those who stormed Al-Tahrir Square last Wednesday were not citizens in favor of Mubarak, but a handful of beneficiaries of his existence, stepping briefly into...04-02-2011Read more»
- 中国: 网民哈达的叔叔和侄子见面 / 维权者哈达失踪：网上出现神秘视频. 2011年1月26日在和南蒙古人权信息中心(SMRHRIC)的电话访谈中，记者、维权人士哈达的叔叔哈斯朝鲁表示最近他已经获准和哈达见面。通话被突然切断，但是哈斯...30-01-2011Read more»
- Stand with the people of Egypt: "We stand with the people of Egypt in their demand for freedom and basic rights, an end to the crackdown and internet blackout, and immediate democratic reform. We call...30-01-2011Read more»
- Tunisia: some journalists and bloggers released, others still in detention, fear for their safety. PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) welcomes the release on 16 January 2011 of Nizar...18-01-2011Read more»
- Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo’s release and urges the US government to firmly raise the issue of media freedom with Chinese....Reporters Without Borders 18-01-2011Read more»
- The press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders is today launching an ad campaign in support of independent media that provide North Koreans with news and information....Reporters Without Borders 17-01-2011Read more»
- China’s Propaganda Department, which is under the direct orders of the
country’s Communist Party, has marked the New Year with a series of directives to the media. Regarded as state...Reporters Without Borders 13-01-2011Read more»
- Three Tibetan writers, Kalsang Jinpa, Jangtse Donkho and Buddha, were given prison sentences of three to four years in prison by a court in Aba, in the eastern Tibetan plateau...Reporters Without Borders 04-01-2011Read more»
- A Uyghur journalist working for an official Chinese radio service has been sentenced to life in prison following a secret trial conducted earlier this year, according to a letter sent by a friend... RFA News 2010-12-15Read more»
- An outspoken ethnic Uyghur scholar, his wife, and his two young sons were taken into custody by Chinese authorities for about a week and released Wednesday after intense questioning... RFA News 2010-12-01Read more»
- A Uyghur woman plans to sue a Han storeowner for ethnic prejudice according to Chinese law. A Uyghur factory worker from northwestern China said she was insulted and humiliated by Han Chinese... RFA News 2010-12-01Read more»
- LONDON, 15 November 2010 - The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International commemorates its fiftieth year in 2010, on the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer... International PEN 15 November 2010.Read more»
- HONG KONG—A court in China's troubled northwestern city of Urumqi, which was rocked by ethnic violence last year, appears to be stalling an appeal hearing in the case of an ethnic Uyghur journalist... RFA 2010-11-01Read more»
- Uyghurs voice their objections to a language policy as they back Tibetan protests in western China. Beijing is moving to clamp down on the Internet in northwestern China as ethnic minority Uyghurs... RFA 2010-10-27Read more»
- New information is now available on the cases of two Uyghur political prisoners serving prison sentences in the far western region of Xinjiang. According to information from the Dui Hua Foundation... October 20, 2010Read more»
- The Nonviolent Radical Party Transnational and Transparty, an NGO in consultative status to the United Nations, orally delivered an intervention concerning linguistic as a form of ... Nonviolent Radical Party 19/10/2010Read more»
- HONG KONG - One year after deadly rioting left at least 200 people dead in the northwestern city of Urumqi, hatred is still simmering below the surface, with both Han Chinese and Muslim Uyghurs... RFA July 8, 2010Read more»
- A year ago today, when Chinese police violently suppressed a peaceful protest by the Uighur minority in Urumqi, the capital of the western region of Xinjiang, the world essentially looked... Washington Post July 5, 2010Read more»
- HONG KONG - An ethnic Uyghur scholar based in Beijing has lashed out in an open letter and an interview at Chinese authorities for preventing him from traveling to Turkey to deliver. Ilham Tohti... RFA April 28, 2010Read more»
