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HRW Calls China To Drop Move To Legalize Incommunicado Detentions

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[RTT News] - In recent years, the police have increasingly resorted to secret detention of government critics, including the artist Ai Weiwei, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, and human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng. These detentions are … under Chinese

Google News: What words get you censored in China?

[TG Daily] - Some of the worst-offending names include Falun Gong, a spiritual movement banned by the Chinese government, and human rights activists Ai Weiwei and Liu Xiaobo. Others are less obvious: 'lianghui', a term that normally refers to a joint meeting of

Google News: Chinese Firewall's most blocked terms

[Australian Techworld] - Researchers found that the names Ai Weiwei and Liu Xiaobo, two Chinese political protesters, as well as the term Linagui, which is a code term for planned protests, are blocked on Chinese websites and microblogs called weibos at high rates.

First large-scale analysis of 'soft' censorship of social media in China

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[PhysOrg.com] online censorship is highly developed, the researchers found that oft-censored terms included well-known hot buttons, such as Falun Gong, a spiritual movement banned by the Chinese government, and human rights activists Ai Weiwei and Liu Xiaobo.

Ai Weiwei was supposed to be untouchable, too well known as an ...

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If you trace the crackdown farther, back to last fall and the announcement that jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the list of government critics being in various forms of detention grows even longer to ...

Twitter Posts: Esther Han (EstherHjHan)

RT @nybooks: Ai Weiwei, Liu Xiaobo, apartheid, and the future of Christianity in #China: an interview with exiled writer Yu Jie http://t.co/rLqWUtha

Twitter Posts: Pierre-Yves Baubry (pybaubry)

RT @ananthkrishnan: RT @Yuxin_Gao Yu Jie: Western media should report less on Ai Weiwei, more on Liu Xiaobo. NYRB int by @iandenisjohnson http://t.co/0IjjhKLZ

Twitter Posts: Joe Olsson (InBeijingSe)

Författaren Yu Jie intervjuad ang sin biografi om och Liu Xiaobo, och talar om Ai Weiwei: http://t.co/NpIDjR1z @anguche @svenenglund

Studie: Chinesischer Mikroblog-Dienst zensiert fast alle politischen Mitteilungen

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[ZDNet.de] - Zu den Tabus gehören etwa die verbotene Sekte Falun Gong, die für Menschenrechte engagierten Künstler Ai Weiwei und Liu Xiaobo, aber auch der Begriff "Lianghui", der eigentlich für ein jährliches Treffen von Parlament und Rat steht, aber aufgrund der

LIU XIA The Silent Strength of Liu Xia

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[Brooklyn Rail] - When her husband, Liu Xiaobo, was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in the situation grew worse; she was placed under strict house arrest and deprived of all means of contact. Unlike the most famous dissident artist, Ai Weiwei, Liu Xia has never been

What gets censored in China?

shanghaiist.com

[Shanghaiist] - As you'd expect, mentions of the spiritual movement Falun Gong or activists such as Liu Xiaobo and Ai Weiwei were regularly censored regardless of these factors, but even mentions of iodised salt and former general secretary of the CCP Jiang Zemin were

'Invisible Tibet' blogger elicits China's extra-judicial ire

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[CPJ Press Freedom Online (blog)] - This would legalize a pernicious practice that has recently been used against the artist Ai Weiwei, the lawyer Gao Zhisheng and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo. Up to now, such abductions have been technically ….