Liu Xiaobo has been moved from a Beijing holding prison, where he was kept for far too long, to a Liaoning prison. But why Liaoning?
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Liu Xiaobo has been moved from a Beijing holding prison, where he was kept for far too long, to a Liaoning prison. But why Liaoning?
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“Being disappeared” is nothing new in China. But “being confessed, pledged guilty, sentenced, declared innocent and touristed” – which is how a netizens sums up the tale of misfortunes that Zhao Zuohai was subjected to – is very telling of why of the unassuming grammatical particle bei (被) that indicates the passive voice became...
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Gao Zhisheng is missing again. What the hell is going on with this case?
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More on Ai Weiwei's Sichuan earthquake project, his experience testifying in Tan Zuoren's case, and his thoughts on the retirement of Gao Zhisheng.
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Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who was presumed dead by many a few months ago, suddenly called his wife yesterday, and told reporters he had been free for the past six months. What, exactly, is going on here?
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Things have been depressing for China watchers as of late. Increased censorship, Google’s threat to leave, Liu Xiaobo’s sentencing, Gao Zhisheng’s probable execution…it’s been a rough month. But you’ll be happy to know that a few encouraging things have happened! First of all, the recent reports that “sexting” would be banned appear to have...
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It is with a heavy heart that I point you in the direction of these stories. Gao Zhisheng, a lawyer who ChinaGeeks contributor Chris Hearne wrote about back in March of 2009, is missing. Gao, a Nobel Prize nominee, has been in custody since last February, but when his brother asked for information about...
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Gao Zhisheng is a Chinese firebrand lawyer-turned human rights activist. He’s taken up the cross for cases ranging from underground Christian sects to democracy activists, displaced homeowners and more. Gao’s opponent in and out of court has traditionally been one face or another of the CCP, and he’s been a thorn in the Party’s...
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