It was revealed last week that a Chinese man who imprisoned six women as sex slaves in a self-dug cellar was arrested in Luoyang city, Henan...
Reporter detained for article on sex slavery
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CATEGORY: Asia and Pacific
Twitter clamps down on “rumours”
It’s been in the pipeline for weeks. Ever since China’s version of Twitter, Weibo, was used by account holders to pressure a polluting factory to...
Window on the South: Suspended magazine editor talks to Index
The suspension of one of China’s top editors, Zhao Lingmin, who edited the high-profile magazine, Window on the South, has gripped the Chinese...
Chinese censors cut Super Girl
China's version of Pop Idol, Super Girl, was on Friday suspended for one year by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). Li...
Google’s ICP licence renewed in China
Last week, a Google spokesperson announced that Google.cn’s Chinese Internet Content Provider (ICP) licence had been renewed to 2012. When Google...
Propaganda bureau takes over two Beijing papers‎
The news earlier this week that two popular Beijing newspapers will now come under the capital’s propaganda department has raised concerns that the...
China calls for crackdown on Internet rumours
After two recent incidents where a fury of online public criticism has shown the robust power of microblogging in spreading information, the Chinese...
Ai Weiwei calls Beijing “a city of violence”
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has attacked injustices in China in a candid and scathing article posted on Newsweek magazine's website. He...
Backstreet’s blocked alright
Of all the contentious cultural material China's censors could crack down on, an inoffensive 1990s boy band ballad seems like an odd option. China's...
China’s middle class protesters
A week ago China’s middle class flexed their civic action muscles by taking to the streets in their thousands (reports say up to 12,000) in the...
Kyrgyzstan: Journalist brutally attacked
Shokhrukh Saipov, the Osh-based editor and publisher of news website Uz Press, was last week attacked by unidentified individuals. Saipov had been...
Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei makes a comeback
Ai: A bird needs to flutter its wings to see if it can fly After nearly two months of silence, artist Ai Weiwei, one of China’s most prominent human...
