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Heart of Beijing: April 2012

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Sunday, April 29, 2012. The Week That Was At Beijing Cream, April 23-29. April 23 - April 29. Where is Chen Guangcheng right now. Or as our Chinese friends on Twitter and the Free CGC. Blog are saying: "陈光诚现在到底在哪？" If you'd like an explanation of the series, see this post. From about 1:30 am today. There's a great comment at the end of that post). Then we photoshopped. His head onto Barack Obama's body. BJC uncovered video of another pedestrian falling through the sidewalk. Time Out's Food Awards are ups...

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Benswick: November 2007

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The chronicles of two Washingtonians living in LA. Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Drinking hard liquor in public is like playing social Russian roulette. Monday, November 19, 2007. It's True, I Can't Spell. I have been preforming. Shows for the past 2 years now, as well as done a few stand-up shows, and not once was I heckled. Sure more times then I care to remember people stared at me blank faced and did not laugh, but no one came out and said "you are not funny.". For me that the people I know are the g...

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Fool's Mountain: Blogging for China. A wise one knows moving mountains is beyond human power, but a fool has other thoughts…. Fools Mountain’s Favorites on Flickr. There are currently no comments highlighted. What does it mean to be Chinese? Chocolate City" - Africans seek their dreams in China. The Prospects of Democracy in China. Try to view Amnesty International calmly. True Pride" - Time magazine. Weng'an Riots: How the state media hurts China. Are Chinese racist or simply politically incorrect?

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Siweiluozi's Blog: Lawyer Zhang Xuezhong: Gao Yu's Conviction is "Perversion of the Law"

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Lawyer Zhang Xuezhong: Gao Yu's Conviction is "Perversion of the Law". The following is a translation of a commentary. Produced by Shanghai-based lawyer Zhang Xuezhong in response to yesterday's conviction. Of the 71-year-old senior journalist, Gao Yu. Entitled “Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere.” But in fact, Ms Gao’s actions did not constitute a crime and the Beijing court’s guilty verdict is a perversion of the law. According to Article 2 and Article 8(3) of the Law on the Guar...

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Siweiluozi's Blog: July 2014

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ACLA Issues Formal Notice Distancing Itself from Rights Lawyers. The following notice was published on page 2 of the 30 June 2014 edition of. Legal Daily , the official organ of the CCP Central Politico-Legal Commission. We respectfully request that lawyers and the general public take note. All-China Lawyers Association, Membership Division. This response from Wang Cheng, via Weibo. Stern Statement: In light of the ACLA statement published yesterday in Legal Daily. The organ of the Central Politico-Legal...

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Siweiluozi's Blog: May 2014

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Tang Jitian Recounts Torture and Detention in Heilongjiang. The following is an account by human rights lawyer Tang Jitian [唐吉田], one of four lawyers detained earlier this year while investigating illegal detentions in a "legal education center" in Heilongjiang. It was originally published by Boxun. On April 13, 2014, and has been translated into English by a group of anonymous translators. For additional documents related to this case, see these earlier posts. 65279; As Long as Torture Persists,. Who sa...

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Siweiluozi's Blog: May 2015

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Why Pu Zhiqiang is Facing Eight (not 10 or 20) Years in Prison. On 15 May, the Second Branch of the Beijing People’s Procuratorate posted the following message. To its Weibo account:. Below, I want to address a very specific issue. One of the obvious questions that many have asked is: if Pu is convicted of these two charges, what might his sentence be? That his client was facing a maximum of eight years in prison. Whoever incites ethnic hatred or discrimination, if the circumstances are aggravated (情节严重)...

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Siweiluozi's Blog: March 2014

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Zhang Junjie's Account, Part Three. As I went downstairs to the first-floor interrogation room, it was nearly 2:30 am I saw documents on the table with the names Jiang Tianyong and Tang Jitian on them and inferred that the three other lawyers had already signed statements. After making several changes to the statement that they had prepared—and enduring threats and recrimination—I finally signed my name. It was 5 am exactly. Do you need a police escort? 8221; I told them clearly that I didn’t. ...After s...

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Siweiluozi's Blog: September 2014

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Nine Lawyers File Formal Complaint Accusing Police of Unlawful Detention. Original Chinese text here. Roughly translated below.). Beijing Municipality People's Procuratorate. Zhang Lei, Beijing lawyer. (Law firm name and contact details redacted here and below.). Dong Qianyong, Beijing lawyer. Wang Yu, Beijing lawyer. Hu Guiyun, Beijing lawyer. Chen Jian’gang, Beijing lawyer. Li Guobei, Beijing lawyer. Yu Wensheng, Beijing lawyer. Wang Xing, Beijing lawyer. Li Jinxing, Shandong lawyer. Of lawyer Cheng Ha...