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both arguably become more visible in the Internet
age. Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng
broadcast video of security agents encircling his home in 2011, while
Associated
Committee to Protect Journalists
for questioning a dozen journalists covering the treatment of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng in a Beijing hospital. At least two journalists' press cards were temporarily
censors aggressively blocked coverage of dissent, including reports on blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng's escape from house arrest. Coverage of corruption was tightly controlled in
This year, the parking lot of a hospital where high-profile
dissident Chen Guangcheng was undergoing treatment was declared off limits. Officials
threatened to revoke visas
track sensitive terms over time: Most deleted
topics in June were activist Chen Guangcheng, U.S. Ambassador to China Gary
Locke, former Chongqing party secretary Bo
China's state news agency Xinhua published the full text of the state council's National Human Rights Action Plan 2012-15 on Monday. There is no section dedicated to press freedom. But the most striking omissions can be found in the text itself....
Beijing compound--and reports that Ai
is followed whenever he leaves.
Neither
Chen Guangcheng nor Ai Weiwei is a professional journalist, but both were
targeted for
Sina's Twitter-like microblog service Weibo has released new guidelines to restrict users who share banned content, according to international news reports. It's the first time such guidelines target users who adopt puns, homonyms, and other veiled references to discuss censored news stories without using keywords on the propaganda department's...
interview any
consenting subject, yet journalists reporting on human rights activists like
Chen Guangcheng are now accused of reporting
"illegally" that he is staying at Beijing's
New York, May 7, 2012--China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs should immediately grant accreditation to Al-Jazeera English reporters to work in China, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The channel said China has refused its long-time correspondent Melissa Chan and other colleagues journalist visas, forcing it to close its Beijing...
