The Committee to Protect Journalists special report on media censorship in China link to the report... | Audio slide show for China report...
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Olympic press coverage clashes with China's media policy more in AFP video...
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U.S. budget proposal harms press freedom in Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tibet, and China more story... | BBG announcement...
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World Association of Newspapers (WAN) calls for release of jailed Chinese journalist Shi Tao, winner of the 2007 Golden Pen of Freedom WAN press release... | WAN press release on 2007 Golden Pen of Freedom...
International PEN organizes a campaign to protest the large numbers of writers and journalists detained in the People's Republic of China (P.R.C) PEN press release...
Internet fuels rise in number of jailed journalists The Committee to Protect Journalists census finds more held without charge or due process. China, Cuba, Eritrea, and Ethiopia were the top four jailers among the 24 nations who imprisoned journalists. CPJ article... | Detailed report...
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Multimedia initiative helps Chinese students study in the U.S. Information in Chinese made available to potential enrollees U.S. State Dept. Wash. File story...
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At International Olympic Committee headquarters, CPJ raises concerns about press freedom in China CPJ press release...
Chinese ban on Wikipedia lifted for now more story from Wikinews...
Freedom House criticizes sentence of New York Times researcher Zhao Yan Freedom House press release...
Internet companies aid censorship in China "Western Internet companies are complicit in actively censoring political material without telling users what’s happening and why." -- Rebecca MacKinnon, consultant to Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch press release... | HRW full report... | in Chinese...
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Chinese blogger's release no guarantee of press freedom USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review Kim Pearson story...
The Committee to Protect Journalists called for the release of Straits Times reporter Ching Cheong, who was tried in a closed-door proceeding in Beijing on espionage charges CPJ news alert...
Reporters Without Borders: Ching Cheong’s trial is "travesty of justice" Reporters Without Borders press release...
Chinese Migration to Russian Far East Said Vastly Exaggerated Paul Goble's Window on Eurasia, Vienna, July 24, 2006 – Given declines in the population of the Russian Far East – officials there suggest that the number of residents will have declined by almost 50 percent between 1991 and 2020 – and China’s burgeoning population next door, many Russians fear their country is about to be swamped by waves of Chinese immigrants. more story...
Chinese Texts Say Siberia a ‘Temporarily Lost’ Chinese Land, Russians Complain, Paul Goble's Window on Eurasia, Vienna, June 20, 2006 – Chinese textbooks currently portray “Western Siberia up to and including Tomsk oblast as temporarily lost Chinese territories,” according to a researcher in the Altai Republic. And as a result, many Chinese students expect that “sooner or later,” the Chinese will return there. more story...
U.S. Calls for Accounting of Tiananmen Square Deaths, Detentions U.S. State Dept. Washington File, June 6, 2006 --
Clearing the record is in China's own interest, State Department says. The United States urges China to provide a full accounting of those who were killed, were detained, or went missing during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations 17 years ago, and of "the government's role in the massacre," the State Department says. more story...
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Freedom House urges President Bush to discuss human rights and press freedom issues with President Hu Freedom House press release, April 19, 2006 The Chinese leader should be asked "to cease using the State Security Law to imprison internet users, journalists
and editors for simply expressing their opinions." Freedom House press release...
Members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCRIF) urge President Bush to raise the religious freedom issue with China "The Tibetan Buddhist community continues to be severely repressed. The Chinese government acknowledges that more than 100 Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns are in prison - and according to human rights groups, they are subject to torture and ill treatment." More from USCIRF... | USCIRF Home | China Policy Brief from USCIRF
China's Internet filtering regime most sophisticated in the world The OpenNet Inititive concluded in its study of Internet Filtering in China 2004-2005 that "China's Internet filtering regime is the most sophisticated effort of its kind in the world. Compared to similar efforts in other states, China's filtering regime is pervasive, sophisticated, and effective. " Link to China study... | Link to other country studies...
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