More media rules from China’s propaganda bureau

China's official propaganda department has just issued new rules for some local media – it seems global criticism of its heavy-handed tactics doesn't bother the authorities.

The Uighur: persecuted or terrorists?

In the northwest of China live the little known Uighur people. Amnesty International say they've suffered systematic human rights violations, but the Chinese Government call them terrorists and separatists. Current TV investigates the Uighur.

China in the headlines – 29 August 2008

In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:

• A look at what happened to one New York Times' Olympics story after a Beijing newspaper 'translated' it.

• Hundreds of Tibetan monks detained during the March unrest, and deported to a remote Chinese province, remain in custody.

• China's spotlight during the Games didn't bring greater freedom of speech for the country's outspoken human rights advocates.

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Were the Games all gloss and no substance? Have your say

Jacquelin Magnay explores whether the Games were all gloss. What are your thoughts? Did the Games present a false image of China, were they 'exceptional' in all regards, were they a success?

Chinese net users on the BBC

The BBC's news pages (in English only) have been available to Chinese internet users and the comments are starting to flow as people in China take the opportunity to read what 'the West has to say'.

Leaving fear behind in Tibet

Amateur filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen wanted the world to know what Tibetans thought about the Olympics. Now he and his assistant, Buddhist monk Golog Jigme, are in jail.

Rights advocate safely home after Games detention

Human rights activist Zeng Jinyan, who with her baby daughter disappeared the day before the Olympics opened, returned home over the weekend.

Journalists still struggle to enter Tibet

Five months after the violent unrest in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, the region's still difficult to access if you are a foreign journalist. So France24's reporter went in as a tourist.

China in the headlines – 27 August 2008

In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:

• The Olympics were a great success in organisational terms, but they were full of falsehoods from the start.

• Well-known Tibetan blogger Woeser is arrested by police.

• A group of US protestors say Chinese authorities accused them of having ties with the US government, deprived them of sleep and interrogated them for hours.

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A tarnished Olympics

Chinese authorities have put image over substance by continuing to persecute and punish activists and journalists during the Olympics.

The Olympics and the verdicts

With the 29th Olympics now over, it's time for the verdicts - including whether the Games have brought improvements to human rights in China?

Sentenced to death: guilt or innocence

Chinese scientist and inventor Wo Weihan was sentenced to death in 2007 for espionage, but his daughter believes he may have confessed under torture and have had an unfair trial.

China in the headlines – 25 August 2008

In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:

• Amnesty International wants the International Olympic Committee to include human rights indicators in future Olympic bids, to ensure it doesn't repeat the mistakes of these Games.

• The Beijing Games were a disaster for free speech, says a press freedom group.

• The US openly attacks China for failing to live up to its Olympic promise to improve human rights.

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Punishment for protesting in China

Al Jazeera English interviews Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying – two Chinese women in their seventies who have been sentenced to a year in a labour camp after applying to use one of the Olympic protest zones.

Media give a voice to the ordinary Chinese

The thousands of foreign journalists in China for the Olympics aren't just writing about medals, athletes and censorship controversies – they're also giving a voice to ordinary Chinese citizens.

Why send two elderly Chinese women to a labour camp?

Just why did Chinese officials sentence two elderly women, who wanted to use the Olympic protest parks, to a year in a labour camp? A former China correspondent for The Washington Post, John Pomfret, has his own answers.

China’s two very different Muslim minorities

China is home to two ethnically separate Muslim groups – the Hui and the Uighur. And it is the Uighur people who Chinese authorities have in recent years labelled terrorists and separatists.

China in the headlines – 22 August 2008

In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:

• The thousands of foreign journalists in China for the Games are wrong if they think their presence will make a lasting difference to media freedom, say analysts.

• Australian Olympic athlete Cadel Evans takes a swipe at the Chinese Government's treatment of its people.

• Internet censors may have unblocked access from Beijing to some websites during the Olympics, but web surfers in Tibet haven't been so lucky.

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China’s censors target iTunes Store

Chinese authorities have apparently blocked Apple's online iTunes Store after reports Olympic athletes may have been listening to a just released pro-Tibet album – from the Sydney Morning Herald.

Elderly Chinese women punished for daring to complain

Two Chinese women, in their seventies, who repeatedly asked permission to use Beijing's Olympic protest zones, could be sent to forced labour camps as punishment.