Tag Archives: Human Rights

• Hu Jintao takes personal charge of fight against Charter 08 7 January 2009 | Mark O'Neill This post has no comments yet

  There is little chance that the Chinese government can snuff out Charter 08, the most serious intellectual challenge to the Communist Party since the student-led protests of 1989, ...

• Rights groups push China on press freedom for local media 18 October 2008 This post has no comments yet

  Rights groups and media experts on Saturday gave a cautious welcome to China's decision to allow foreign reporters greater freedom and urged Beijing to extend the same rights to domestic journalists. ...

• Beijing controls Tibetans using Skynet electronic surveillance 23 August 2008 | Qiao Long This post has no comments yet

  Skynet is now operational in Tibet. Beijing installed cameras in every district to monitor Tibetans. Currently, Tibetans must obtain passes from the government to enter cities. ...

• A lama in sheep’s clothing? 8 May 2008 This post has no comments yet

  Not long after calling him a “devil” with a human face and the heart of a beast, Chinese officials are talking again to representatives of the Dalai Lama. ...

• China uses Yahoo in Tibet riots 3 March 2008 This post has no comments yet

  Pictures of another 20 Tibetans have shown up online. Only this time they weren’t of men killed by Chinese forces when demonstrators protested -- they were protestors. ...

• Richard Gere meets with Tibetans 23 March 1998 This post has no comments yet

  Richard Gere met Monday with six Tibetans on a hunger strike to demand a UN investigation of human rights violations in their country. ...