Posts Tagged ‘ Injustice ’

"The Death of a Homeless Man"

January 19, 2010
By C. Custer

The following is a translation of this post from Tiger Temple, about the ordeal and presumed death of a homeless man in Bobai, Guangxi. This post contains disturbing images and may be NSFW. Translation When Ren Zi called that night from a Guangxi street, he was standing beside a vagrant. His voice choking repeatedly...
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Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng "Missing"

January 16, 2010
By C. Custer

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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Liu Xiaobo, Drifting With the Tide

December 25, 2009
By C. Custer
Liu Xiaobo, Drifting With the Tide

Westerners worldwide will wake up tomorrow with gifts under their Christmas trees. Liu Xia will wake up tomorrow -- for her, December 26th -- with the knowledge that Christmas brought her an empty home for the next eleven years.
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Yan Xiaoling, Legal Questions, and Reporting Injustice

December 16, 2009
By C. Custer

For some time now, lawyer and blogger Liu Xiaoyuan has been following the case of three netizens (You Jingyou, Fan Yanqiong, and Wu Huaying) accused of framing/falsifying information because they published an article on the internet about the lethal gang rape of Yan Xiaoling. The post attracted widespread interest online and was posted on...
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AIDS Patient: "Return My Freedom! Return My Rights!"

December 1, 2009
By C. Custer

...Now I'm without hope for effective treatment or just compensation, my freedom of movement has been constrained; the situation is that there's no way for me to leave the county!
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"Am I a Master Criminal?"

October 18, 2009
By C. Custer

Their searching me out to speak with me came from good intentions. They advised me: next time, be a little more discreet, don't write this kind of blog post. I said, when I see or encounter injustice and inequality, if I don't even dare to speak about it, ignore it, adopt a superior attitude...
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"They Beat Me Until I Was Screaming in Pain"

April 24, 2009
By C. Custer
"They Beat Me Until I Was Screaming in Pain"

Two masked me took me (Zhao Xinhua), tied me arms, twisted my neck down to the ground, and kicked and punched me. Another man grabbed my hair and used it to slam my head to the ground, they beat me until I was screaming in pain. Later, they dragged and beat me two hundred...
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