Author Archives: Yan Sham-Shackleton

News: China’s Dissidents Turning Homeward

News Feature, Russell Mahakian, Pacific News Service, Apr 14, 2004 Editor’s Note: Many Chinese democracy activists from Tiananmen Square and earlier movements are keeping the faith, working from Western countries for human rights and an open political system in their homeland. But their ranks are thinning. OAKLAND, Calif.–Chinese democracy activists in exile around the worldContinue reading “News: China’s Dissidents Turning Homeward”

News: ‘Net ninjas’ take on web censorship

BBC.com A small group of ‘net commandos’ at the University of Toronto are looking to help people get around government controls on the internet, as technology correspondent Clark Boyd reports. China has a sophisticated way of filtering the net Ron Deibert’s computer screensaver is a two-word message. It spins in those rare moments when theContinue reading “News: ‘Net ninjas’ take on web censorship”

News: Impact of deposed Tiananmen-era Chinese leader debated ahead of anniversary

BEIJING : In a quiet alleyway about a block from the Chinese capital’s bustling shopping district Wangfujing, lives the highest-ranking official held as a political prisoner in China. But 15 years after former premier and Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang was put under house arrest for sympathizing with pro-democracy student demonstrators and opposing the government’sContinue reading “News: Impact of deposed Tiananmen-era Chinese leader debated ahead of anniversary”

BBC: Good Vibrations, What Does a Rave For Deaf People Sound Like?

This is sooo cool. I used to know this deaf guy called Ed who would come raving with us because he could feel the music and for a few hours could be lost in the crowd of us hearing people and we would all be experiencing the same thing. Club nights for the deaf andContinue reading “BBC: Good Vibrations, What Does a Rave For Deaf People Sound Like?”

News: China evades human rights censure

BBC.com China’s wariness of the internet has led to abuses, the US says China has evaded censure on its human rights record after the UN’s Commission on Human Rights blocked a vote on a resolution criticising Beijing. The United States, which sponsored the resolution, wanted the UN to condemn China for restrictions on freedom ofContinue reading “News: China evades human rights censure”

News: Chinese Dissident Ill After Hunger Strike

Chinese Dissident Ill After Hunger Strike Tue Apr 13,11:05 PM ET By JOE MCDONALD, Associated Press Writer BEIJING – An imprisoned former leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests is in critical condition after a five month hunger strike to protest his conviction on what he says are false charges, a human rights groupContinue reading “News: Chinese Dissident Ill After Hunger Strike”

News: Voices of dissent meet for a rare – but tranquil – Easter lunch

CHINA: Activists talk of beatings, imprisonment, and the need to continue their struggle South China Morning Post Tuesday, April 13, 2004 Over a wooden table laden with steaming plates of stewed pork, tofu and vegetable fritters, seven men and a woman bowed their heads, clasped hands and did something risky: they prayed. “Our people haveContinue reading “News: Voices of dissent meet for a rare – but tranquil – Easter lunch”