His 15-year jail term for spying and separatist activities is finally over, but Chinese dissident Hada, (who is ethnically Mongolian) is missing,...
The curious case of Hada
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CATEGORY: Asia and Pacific
China’s Pre-Nobel Preparations
With less than a day to go before the Nobel Committee awards Chinese imprisoned dissident (or convicted criminal if you are the Beijing government)...
Dissident artist calls for openness over Shanghai fire victims
Outspoken dissident artist Ai Weiwei has launched an online campaign asking the Chinese government to publicly release the names of the victims of a...
Uncertainty surrounds release of jailed baby milk activist
On 24 November the South China Morning Post reported that the milk scandal activist, Zhao Lianhai, may be released just weeks after he began his...
China blogging conference cancelled
Organisers of an annual blogging conference, CNBloggercon, to be held last weekend in Shanghai were told to cancel the event because it was too...
Chinese activist sentenced to year in labour camp for Twitter joke
Wangyi09’s twitter feed stops abruptly at 7:45AM on October 28. According to human rights groups, the Chinese rights activist, whose real name is...
The man who dares not say the L Word
David Cameron has extolled the virtues of human rights and democracy during his trade mission to Beijing but why won't he raise the case of...
China releases dissident artist Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei, China’s best-known dissident artist, is called God Ai by his supporters. Ai helped design the Bird’s Nest stadium for the 2008 Summer...
Liu Xiaobo win prompts Chinese media blackout
One of China's best-known dissidents Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday night. Liu is currently serving an 11 year prison sentence for...
In China’s murky censorship machine detention is rarely legal
Last month, Xie Chaoping, author of The Great Migration, was detained for 30 days on the trumped up charge of operating an illegal business. The...
Yu Jie chooses to publish and be damned
“No one living in China is more daring than the maverick writer Yu Jie,” journalist and historian Jonathan Mirsky wrote more than five years ago....
Detained Sri Lankan journalist moved to army prison
On 18 November, journalist JS Tissainayagam, currently on trial before the High Court under the country’s Terrorism Act, was moved to the notorious...
