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No let up in Chinese anger at the West
The anti-Western fervour in China shows no signs of abating.
Download a Nu Wa mask!
Nu Wa is our campaign mascot and he's going to help us speak out against internet repression in China. You can download a Nu Wa mask or ears to wear at our Great Firewall of China events or at any other event you might be holding.
Join us for the Olympic Torch Relay in Canberra
On Thursday April 24 Amnesty International will be part of a peaceful presence at the Olympic Torch Relay in Canberra. Join us in our campaign to improve human rights in China.
Victims of the global mob
Seething netizens have succumbed to mob mentality, launching an online witch hunt for the man who tried to grab the Olympic Torch from a wheel bound Chinese paralympian in Paris.
Weekly report: Smog, Rudd and Hu Jia
The international outcry over China’s human rights abuses was temporarily disrupted as Beijing struggled with increasing concerns over the city’s pollution problems, writes Antony Loewenstein.
Hu Jia is a human being
Zeng Jinyan, the wife of jailed human rights campaigner Hu Jia, has written from inside China about her reaction to her husband’s three-and-a-half-year prison sentence.
Occupational Health & Shortcuts
Those taken for granted or sometimes even annoying occupational Health & safety checks for western workers are not such a given in a China. How much are the condition of workers in China protected? What standards exist and are these enforced?
China executes hundreds annually
Executing your own citizens under the guise of justice is just plain flawed. Murder is still murder no matter who is behind the trigger.
Torch trouble? There’s no trouble
If you need any more evidence of how censorship works in China, and how controlled information really is, take a look at how Chinese media reported on the San Francisco leg of the torch relay.
More terrorists in China?
Chinese authorities have, for the third time in a matter of weeks, announced another alleged terrorist plot being planned on the Olympic Games. Like the last cases, we are told no details.
Weekly report: The torch, boycotts and Tibet
The Beijing Games is shaping up as a public relations disaster for the Chinese Communist Party. Four months from the opening ceremony and global protests against the torch relay are gathering speed. Tibetan activists are successfully highlighting their cause to the world, and the international route of the torch is now in serious doubt, writes Antony Loewenstein.
IOC slams peaceful protest
According to the International Olympic Committee protestors around the Olympic torch "just take out their hate on whatever issues are at the time."
The flame is lit
Pressure is increasing over China's human rights record, in particular the Government's actions in Tibet. The flame is headed in many directions, and the Chinese Government, the International Olympic Committee, world leaders, corporates and internet companies in China are all feeling the heat, blogs Sophie Peer.
Expression = prison: Hu Jia
Breaking news: Overnight environmentalist, human rights activist, and writer of HIV/AIDS websites Hu Jia was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for peacefully expressing his opinion.
“Tibetan terrorists”
China has accused Tibetans of planning suicide pacts at the time of the August Olympic Games in Beijing.
New report - China cracks down on human rights
Amnesty International has launched its latest report on human rights abuse in China before the Olympic Games kick off on 8 August 2008. It shows the Olympics have so far failed to act as a catalyst for China to fulfil its human rights commitments, and in fact the crackdown on activists has deepened.
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Net censorship: the basics
Over the past decade China has become the world’s largest internet market, but the Government, with the assistance of large internet companies, has succeeded in silencing freedom of expression and dissent, writes Antony Loewenstein.
Towards Beijing: March 2008 update
The recent increase in the number and size of protests over Tibet has led to a formidable counter-attack by the Chinese Government, including the blocking of websites such as YouTube and Yahoo!, writes Antony Loewenstein
How to treat a foreign journalist in China
Media freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it has a copy of a classified memo detailing how Chinese Government officials should behave around foreign journalists before and during the Olympics.
Four months until the Games - has China delivered on promises?
In London on 1 April 2008, Amnesty International will release its latest Beijing Olympics report. These regular reports compare China's actual human rights situation to the promises made in 2001 when they bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games.
Thanks for this - a great read and so important right now. Keep it coming :)
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11 May 2012, 12:20PM