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Netizen Voices: Power Cut at Indie Film Fest
It was a mere 30 minutes into the opening screening of the 9th annual Beijing Film Festival when the power cut off. Last year’s festival was also shut down by local authorities. Forced into private...
View ArticleDetentions Broaden as Tiananmen Anniversary Nears
Following the detention of prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang on Tuesday after a seminar last Saturday on the upcoming 25th anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen crackdown, South China Morning Post’s...
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Ai Xiaoming: Thinking of My Friends in Prison
Ai Xiaoming is a documentary filmmaker, activist, and professor of modern Chinese literature at Sun Yat-Sen University. She posted this essay and photos to her blog [Chinese] on May 9, spurred by the...
View ArticleMurong Xuecun: I, Too, Will Stand Up for Tiananmen
Detentions and other restrictions continue as the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown approaches. Writing for The New York Times from Sydney on Thursday, author Murong Xuecun highlighted...
View ArticleTiananmen 25: Tight Controls On Square and Online
The weeks leading up to the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on Wednesday were marked by an unprecedented campaign of detentions, house arrests, forced or restricted travel,...
View ArticleBail or Banishment for Some Held Over 6/4 Anniversary
The passing of Wednesday’s Tiananmen anniversary has brought apparent resolution to the cases of a few of the dozens detained ahead of it, The Wall Street Journal’s Josh Chin reports: Chinese...
View ArticleMurong Xuecun Asks To Be Arrested In China
At the Chinese Law Professor blog, Donald Clarke provides an English translation of writer Murong Xuecun’s “Statement of Surrender,” which was likely released today or yesterday. Murong Xuecun wrote...
View ArticleMurong Xuecun Detained Over Tiananmen Square Event
After author Murong Xuecun issued a “statement of surrender” to Chinese authorities last weekend—an expression of solidarity with those who were detained in the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of the...
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