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Campaigns and Advocacy
12 March 2010
Scholars and writers press for Liu Xiaobo's release
More than 100 leading China scholars, writers and human rights advocates from around the world have released a letter to China's National People's Congress that calls for the immediate release of imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo.
9 March 2010
Human Rights Watch urges National People's Congress to scrap state secrets law
The revised draft law fails to address the wide and ambiguous criteria for classification of state secrets, says the organisation.
8 February 2010
IFJ Press Freedom in China Campaign Bulletin - February 2010
IFJ Asia-Pacific's monthly Press Freedom in China Campaign e-bulletin.
18 January 2010
Sign a petition to help Google in its stand for free expression!
Access Now is seeking worldwide support for its petition to help "Google Stay Strong." Google announced on 12 January that it will be withdrawing from China unless it is able to operate in an unrestricted cyber environment. But there is pressure on Google to back down.
13 January 2010
IFJ Press Freedom in China Campaign Bulletin - January 2010
IFJ Asia-Pacific's monthly Press Freedom in China Campaign e-bulletin.
6 January 2010
Writers ring in New Year with call to free Liu Xiaobo
Dozens of PEN American Center member's staged a New Year's Eve rally on the steps of the New York Public Library to protest the imprisonment of writer Liu Xiaobo.
From the Communiqué
3 February 2010
Authorities ruthlessly censor independent reporting
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has released a new report that highlights the arbitrary manner in which Chinese authorities forbid reporting on numerous issues, manipulating the flow of information. The Chinese media are routinely pummelled with restrictions, leaving very little room for independent news gathering.
20 January 2010
Google makes free expression the focus of doing business
IFEX members have applauded Google's decision to stop censoring the Chinese version of its search engine and its new demand for unfettered Internet access. The company's stand for greater free expression came after it found China-based hackers had gone after the Google Mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists in highly sophisticated and targeted attacks.
6 January 2010
Dissident writer sentenced to 11 years in prison
Chinese dissident and acclaimed writer Liu Xiaobo was sentenced on 25 December to 11 years in prison and two years deprivation of political rights for exercising the right of free expression, reports the PEN American Center. Members of PEN gathered on the steps of the New York Public Library on New Year's Eve in a call for action to release Xiaobo.
16 September 2009
Journalists protest savage attacks on colleagues
A number of journalists from Hong Kong are among those who have been brutally assaulted and harassed in mainland China in the last two weeks as authorities continue to control independent coverage of ethnic violence as well as local crime, report the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
8 July 2009
Beijing backs off from filtering tool; Uighur protests blamed on Internet
China has indefinitely postponed the rollout of its much criticised Internet filtering tool, say the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and news reports.
17 June 2009
Beijing tells computer makers to install web blocking software
China is planning to force computer manufacturers to install software on all new personal computers that would filter out "unhealthy" information, report the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).Alerts
Propaganda department issues new reporting ban 16 March 2010 Censorship and threats follow publication of joint editorial on internal passport system 11 March 2010 Writer prevented from travelling to German book festival, under house arrest 3 March 2010 New regulations announced as Internet censorship reaches unprecedented level 25 February 2010 IFJ demands immediate release of Liu Xiaobo 12 February 2010 IFJ condemns sentencing of Sichuan writer 9 February 2010 New ban on reporting tainted milk scandal 4 February 2010 Internet still not restored in Xinjiang 1 February 2010 Microsoft should not undermine efforts to combat censorship, says Human Rights Watch 28 January 2010 Detained PEN officer Zhao Shiying released; new cyber attack targets Independent Chinese PEN Center 27 January 2010 Journalists warned over hacked Gmail accounts 20 January 2010 Media ordered to censor Google news reports 15 January 2010 Writer and PEN officer Zhao Shiying detained 15 January 2010 Google challenges censorship 14 January 2010 PEN American Center president calls sentencing of Liu Xiaobo a "mockery" and a "scandal" 29 December 2009 Detained writer Liu Xiaobo formally indicted 11 December 2009 After one year in detention, prominent dissident's fate still uncertain 4 December 2009 Website founder jailed for three years 23 November 2009 New restrictions on media enforced as Obama speaks out 18 November 2009 Magazine staff take stand against editorial interference 11 November 2009Reports
IFJ report lists China's secret bans on media reporting 1 February 2010 Survey of blocked Uyghur websites shows Xinjiang still cut off from the world, says RSF 3 November 2009 Sixty years of news media and censorship 2 October 2009 One year after start of games, Olympic flame extinguished for good, says RSF 12 August 2009 All references to Tiananmen Square massacre closely censored for 20 years 2 June 2009 Critics of Tiananmen still face reprisals 20 years after crackdown, says Human Rights Watch report 15 May 2009 China's Olympic Challenge: Press Freedom in 2008
12 March 2009
Attacks on the Press in 2008: China
12 March 2009
World Report 2009: China
22 January 2009
SPEAKING OUT FOR FREE EXPRESSION 1987-2007 AND BEYOND: China
8 January 2009
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