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China’s First Ever ‘Twitter Prisoner’ Left Out to Dry by Twitter Inc.

Twitter tries to move mountains to allow Iranian dissidents to express themselves, but when a Chinese woman is sent to a labor camp for a three-word tweet, Twitter doesn’t seem to have much to say. Now Chinese activists are calling on the company to take up the cause of China’s first citizen to be imprisoned on the basis of a single tweet.

 

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China Cracks Down on Artist… Oh, and River Crabs

As a writer for a blog on human rights, one doesn’t wake up in the morning thinking the topic of the day will be a party in which 10,000 river crabs are served. But we all wake up to surprises. In Shanghai, this weekend’s surprise came when thousands of chi-chi partygoers had to cancel their [...]

 

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UN Chief Tongue-Tied over Chinese Human Rights

The Chinese government has for years severely restricted the freedom of movement, speech and religion of its citizens, failed to develop an independent judiciary, done very little to curb discrimination against ethnic minorities and continued to execute more people per year than the rest of the world combined. You are the leader of the United [...]

 

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