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

  • AFP– China dissidents eye uncertain post-Olympics landscape
    Despite hopes the Olympics would improve human rights, China's crackdown on dissidents before and during the Games has likely set the stage for a lasting period of even tighter controls, government critics say …

  • Reuters – China names eight wanted Olympic terror plotters
    China released on Tuesday a wanted list of eight "terrorists" it said had threatened the Beijing Olympics and were bent on achieving independence for its restive western region of Xinjiang …

  • Reuters– China releases Tibetan film-making monk – report
    A Tibetan monk who was imprisoned after helping make a film about the Olympics and Tibet has been released but was severely tortured while in prison, according to the film makers ...

  • Radio Free Asia – Appeals court keeps Uyghurs detained
    A U.S. appeals court has refused to immediately release 17 Uyghurs held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, effectively keeping them jailed for at least another few weeks or months …

  • International Herald Tribune – China asked to extend rights to its own media
    China should extend media freedoms it now offers foreign reporters to domestic journalists too, rights groups said over the weekend, though they added that the signs were not encouraging this would happen …

  • Boxun – Farewell to my reporting career
    For many years, blogger Shiniankancai has been quite well known for his sharp and sometimes cynical critiques of China’s political institutions and policies. Few knew his real name, and the only detail he provided about his identity was that he worked as a reporter at a national newspaper in Beijing …

  • Just Recently Blog – Hu Jia's prison transfer confirmed
    Last week I received a prison entry notification which confirmed that Hu Jia had been transferred to Beijing Municipal Prison on midday, October 10th …

  • Radio Free Asia – Tibetan government workers in clash
    Tibetan government workers in China’s Gansu province have clashed with soldiers and police in an incident that seriously injured one soldier and one police officer, according to Tibetan sources. Eighteen Tibetans were briefly detained, they said …