- you are here:
- home
- campaigns
- Human Rights in China
- archive
Archives
Category: Blog
Prisoner of conscience freed!

© PrivateBu Dongwei was released from his re-education through labour sentence 4 months earlier. His release was kept quiet to keep him safe.
China tells UN ‘we have zero tolerance for torture’

© PrivateChina avoided the UN's questions and advised they had a policy of 'zero tolerance' towards torture.
Foreign media given some access to Tibet
Australian journalists have been permitted a chaperoned visit to Lhasa, Tibet's capital.
UN questions China on torture
China is due to appear before the UN Committee Against Torture today and officials will be questioned publicly about the use of torture.
China announces human rights plan
In an unprecedent announcement, Chinese officials have stated there will be national plan to improve human rights protection in the country.
Danger for Falun Gong practitioners in Australia
The lack of freedoms in China have a real link to Australia in the form of Falun Gong practitioners seeking asylum here.
China in the headlines – 31 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The China Digital Times looks at how efforts to control information and shape online public opinion are evolving.
The Dalai Lama's envoys head to Beijing for talks with Chinese officials.
A Chinese business weekly has filed a lawsuit against the regional government, after it was shut down for stories it ran about a major state bank.
Plus …
Internet companies take one small step, but not enough
Yahoo, Microsoft and Google have agreed to a code of conduct about how they do business in countries such as China, which restrict free speech.
The state of Chinese journalism

Hong Kong University's journalism program director, Ying Chan, talks about developments in the media in China.
China in the headlines – 29 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
China says it's still looking at talks with Tibet envoys, despite the Dalai Lama saying he has lost hope of agreement.
More reaction to the news that jailed Chinese rights activist Hu Jia has been awarded a major human rights prize.
Experience first-hand what Internet censorship is like for those living in Mainland China.
Plus …
Calls to stop Yang Jia’s execution
Chinese man Yang Jia could be put to death within a little as a week.
China in the headlines – 27 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The moral strength shown by jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia stands in sharp contrast to the state that persecutes him.
Two people have been killed and hundreds injured after a clash between protestors, a timber company and police.
Plus …
Chinese activist wins top human rights prize
Jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia has awarded Europe's most prestigious human rights honour, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought – it's a major acknowledgement of his work.
China in the headlines – 24 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
A Beijing-based pastor has been detained and his two sons beaten by public security officials.
A former vice mayor of Suzhou city is sentenced to death by a Chinese court.
Plus …
Death penalty appeal rejected in Yang Jia case
A Chinese court has rejected an appeal by Yang Jia who is facing the death penalty.
China in the headlines – 22 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The Olympic crackdown on dissidents in China has likely set the stage for lasting tighter controls, say critics.
China has issued a list of eight alleged Olympic terrorists – and they are all Uighurs, a repressed ethnic minority group.
A Tibetan monk jailed in March after he helped make a film about the Olympics and Tibet was severely tortured while in prison.
Plus …
Add a widget for human rights in China

Add our China widget to your website or blog to encourage people to keep speaking up for human rights in China!
Breakthrough on media freedom in China
China's announcement it will extend the temporary Olympic media freedoms granted to foreign journalists is great news – but the freedoms should also be given to Chinese journalists.
China in the headlines – 20 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
A foreign correspondent gives his take on the news the China will extend the reporting freedoms it granted to overseas media for the Olympics.
More on new rules requiring all first time visitors to any of Beijing's more than 1500 Internet cafés be photographed.
A Beijing official who oversaw Olympic construction projects has been given a suspended death sentence.
Plus …
Call for China to extend its Olympic media freedom rules
China's temporary rules that freed up reporting regulations for foreign journalists, in the run up to the Olympics, expire today.
- Page 1 of 22 pages 1 2 3 > Last »
Main archive
full archive
By month
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
