Category Archives: Awaiting a Democratic HK

</center I am not there, but I wish I was. I am so proud so many people came out again. Hong Kong Stages Massive Democracy March Thu Jul 1,10:30 PM ET By DIRK BEVERIDGE, Associated Press Writer HONG KONG – Angered by Beijing’s decision ruling out full democracy in Hong Kong, hundreds of thousands ofContinue reading “News: Hong Kong Stages Massive Democracy March”

Reporters Without Borders has awarded its 2004 Internet Freedom Prize to Chinese cyber-dissident Huang Qi, who has been in prison for four years for criticising the Chinese government on his website. The press freedom organisation also presented its 2004 worldwide report. « Internet under surveillance » 2004 report Reporters Without Borders has published its annualContinue reading “News: China’s Huang Qi awarded 2004 Cyberfreedom Prize”

Report From Reporters Without Borders A sentence of four years of house arrest passed today on Chinese cyber-dissident Du Daobin by a court in Xiaogan (in the central province of Hubei) is lenient compared with the long jail terms usually imposed on cyber-dissidents in China, Reporters Without Borders acknowledged. But the fact remains that DuContinue reading “News: Cyber-dissident Du Daobin sentenced to four years of house arrest”

We have a dream, it will not die, remember that! No matter how it is beaten, freedom will flower. We have a dream it will not die, it comes from our heart, remember that! Lyrics from Freedom Flower We are the only place in China that allows for any memorial activity regarding the events ofContinue reading “Hong Kong Hold Candle Light Vigil for Tiananmen Victims”

Today is the day of that one photo, the one everyone remembers, you know the one I am referring to, its lucid, calm symbolism etched into the minds of millions, the photo Wang Dan has over his bed in his dorm in Harvard University, the one that has and will gloss every story regarding TiananmenContinue reading “Beijing, June 4th 1989: Blood, Death, Chaos and Not that One Photo.”

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By The Associated Press and Knight Ridder Newspapers BEIJING — Three Chinese activists have been removed from their homes just ahead of tomorrow’s anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing, a human-rights group said yesterday. Activists Wang Guoqi, Zhang Chunzhu and Yang Jing were all moved into hotels outside Beijing in theContinue reading “News: China confines activists on eve of anniversary”