Huang Qi was arrested on 10 July for ‘illegal possession of state secrets’. He posted articles criticising the way relief was organised after the 12 May earthquake in Sichuan. ‘Few citizens trust the government because of the corruptions scandals...
In the run up to the Olympics, Indexoncensorship.org is publishing a selection of pieces from the current issue of the magazine:Made in China. Yan Lianke, China's leading, satirical novelist, writes exclusively for Index about the impact of...
Extracts from the text of a declaration issued by four student leaders in Tiananmen Square just before the massacre on the night of 3/4 June 1989