China in the headlines – 17 October 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
Times Online – China watches over internet café customers in web crackdown
All visitors to internet cafés in Beijing are to be required to have their photographs taken in a stringent new control on the public use of cyberspace …China Digital Times – Petitioners being held in 'black' jails, activists say
From the South China Morning Post: Rights groups claim secret prisons, or “black” jails, are sprouting up on the mainland in a campaign by regional authorities to purge petitioners …Radio Free Asia – New land clash in China
Police fired tear-gas and detained more than a dozen villagers in China’s southern Guangdong province during a clash with hundreds of demonstrators protesting what they describe as inadequate compensation for their farmland, witnesses said …AFP – Rare protest in China in support of police killer
Protesters staged a rare demonstration outside a Shanghai court on Monday in support of a jobless man who is appealing against his conviction for murdering six policemen …Toronto Star – Activist jailed in China begs for help in recording
Kamila Telendibaeva was brought to tears by the sound of her husband's voice on a scratchy recording made in secret in a Chinese prison …AFP– Eight monks imprisoned for bomb blast in Tibet: judge
Eight monks convicted of staging a bomb attack in Tibet at the height of anti-China protests nearly seven months ago have been sentenced to prison, one of them for life, a judge said …Boxun – Hubei province writer Deng Fuhua strongly protests violation of his human rights
Several days ago, Hubei writer Deng Fuhua had his rights egregiously violated by Hubei Province Shiyan City authorities. He is using multiple channels to express his strong disagreement with this treatment …
china AND human rights AND Olympics
I hope that Australia is bringing diplomatic pressure to bear in the fight against this prehistoric legislation.
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