Human Rights in China – Security forces beat impoverished villagers seeking redress for man-made disaster
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that on October 8, 2008, around 1:00 P.M., hundreds of peasants organized a peaceful sit-in and blocked traffic at a major road in Sanjiang town, Guangdong province. Witnesses reported that more than five hundred police officers, military police, and riot police were deployed to disperse the crowd …Telegraph – Tibet suffering 'worse period of repression' by China since Cultural Revolution
Tibet's people are enduring the worst period of repression at the hands of China's regime since the Cultural Revolution more than three decades ago, according to the Dalai Lama's envoy in Europe …The Washington Post Pomfret's China Blog – A victory for the Uighurs at Guantanamo...but now what?
The strangest cases to come out of Guantanamo have been those against a group of Chinese Muslims who were picked up in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks …Reuters – China milk scandal province hid mine disaster
Officials in the north Chinese province at the heart of a toxic milk scandal hid a coal mine explosion that killed more than 30 miners three weeks before the Beijing Olympics, state media reported …Boxun News – Hubei province writer Deng Fuhua punished for persistently exposing official corruption
Hubei Province writer Deng Fuhua has been targeted and punished by authorities for his persistent investigation and exposure of official corruption …Global Voices Online – 40 missing children parents' petition journey in Beijing
This news about 40 parents petition in Beijing for their missing children has been censored by the mainstream media and major news portal in the Internet in China …
China in the headlines – 10 October 2008
- Published on 10/10/2008
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