On July 9, 2015, the Chinese government began to purge human rights lawyers, activists, and legal personnel by illegally sending them to prison. This became known as the 709 crackdown. Yu Wensheng, a 50-year-old Beijing lawyer, was arrested on August 6, 2015, and released after 24 hours. Later, he became the defense attorney for lawyer ...
I remember September 11. It was no ordinary day or one that I could say, looking back, was like any other. The world, like I had never experienced before, came closer, became as one. I was on my way back home that day waiting for a train when my father called me. “A plane flew ...
China’s leading ride-hailing company, Didi Chuxing, has suspended their carpooling service Hitch after it was found that a female passenger was raped and killed by a driver. This is the second such violent incident against women using Hitch and has put the company under intense pressure to find adequate solutions to guarantee the safety of ...
Disappeared human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been held by state security somewhere in China for over a year. Gao Zhisheng, 54, is believed to have been taken from Shaanxi to Beijing by police mid-August last year. It was the eighth time the twice Nobel Peace Prize nominee has been disappeared by the state apparatus ...
China is once again riling up America by continuing its purchase of Iranian oil despite sanctions by the U.S.The U.S. had pulled out of the nuclear deal with Iran and re-imposed sanctions on the Middle Eastern country after President Trump found the agreement to be seriously flawed, posing a threat to the U.S. as well ...
This is part two of an exclusive interview with journalist and author Du Bin. I can help more people as a journalist Reporter: Why do you like to be a reporter? Du Bin: At first, I wrote poems, but I thought that I should not write literary things. I should be a journalist. Here is ...
Reena Augustine is an Indian Australian citizen who moved to Australia from western India’s Gurjarat in 2009. She is the founder and director of Red Carpet Functions, an organization aspiring to celebrate the diversity of Brisbane’s communities and emphasizing the appreciation of its diverse cultures. Invited by Changhua Parent Union Advisory Council (彰化縣各級學校家長會聯合會, CPUAC) in ...
With China getting more aggressive with its economic and military plans, the U.S. recently passed a new defense act that singled out the Asian country as a competitor to the United States. This has reportedly sent the Chinese government into a frenzy, angry at being declared a threat to the U.S. The Defense Act The ...
From starting out as an official media photojournalist before 1999 through becoming an independent journalist, writer, and documentary producer today who pays attention to rights activists and exposes the truth of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Du Bin has been named by the CCP as “an expert in muck spreading.” Due to that unofficial title ...
While China is not exactly known for its adherence to human rights, its persecution of the community of Uyghurs has been so severe that the UN recently asked for an explanation from a Chinese representative. And instead of allaying fears of persecution, the official ended up justifying why the communist government needed to continue its ...
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