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My poems were written in anger after Tiananmen Square. But what motivates most prison writing is a fear of forgetting. Today I am free, but the regime has never stopped its war on wordsMost of my manuscripts are locked up in the filing cabinets of the …
続きを読むThe territory’s justice minister has called for the anthem to be removed from the internet in the wake of the rulingHong Kong has demanded a protest song that was made popular during pro-democracy demonstrations in the territory be removed from the int…
続きを読むFreedom to Write index says there are 107 people in prison for published content in China, with many accused of ‘picking quarrels’The number of writers jailed in China has surpassed 100, with nearly half imprisoned for online expression.The grim milest…
続きを読むZhang Yongzhen stages sit-in protest, as government attempts to avoid scrutiny over handling of outbreakThe first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the Covid-19 virus, in defiance of government orders, has been staging a sit-in protest…
続きを読むHis calm demeanour and wholesome vocation have apparently endeared him to one of the most authoritarian regimes in the world. But there is something about Alan Titchmarsh that North Korea’s censors can’t quite forgive – his jeans. The green-fingered br…
続きを読むFootage of green-fingered BBC presenter obscured from waist down to hide ‘symbol of US imperialism’His calm demeanour and wholesome vocation have apparently endeared him to one of the most authoritarian regimes in the world. But there is something abou…
続きを読むSevinc Vaqifgizi is one of 13 independent journalists detained since snap presidential vote announcedIn late November last year, the investigative journalist Sevinc Vaqifgizi was arrested upon arrival at Heydar Aliyev international airport in Azerbaija…
続きを読むFirst two episodes inaccessible to viewers in city, with some attributing censorship to umbrella protest scenesAmazon’s big-ticket series Expats, set and filmed in Hong Kong, is not available for viewing in the city despite being billed as a worldwide …
続きを読むMedia mogul and pro-democracy activist accused of conspiring to collude with foreign forces and faces life in prisonThe media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has gone on trial at a heavily guarded Hong Kong court on national security charges…
続きを読むFears South Korean court will impose harsh penalty on Kwon Pyong to appease BeijingThe father of a Chinese dissident detained in South Korea said his son will die if he is sent back to China, a country he escaped from on a jetski in a life-threatening …
続きを読むMeasure to ensure foreign artists ‘adhere to the local culture’ follows incident at gig by the 1975 in Kuala LumpurConcert organisers in Malaysia must now have a “kill switch” to cut short performances that break official guidelines, a minister has sai…
続きを読むCensorship targets ‘overly effusive’ comments, gatherings or references to Li’s views on economic reformPublic tributes to China’s former premier Li Keqiang, who died on Friday, are being strictly controlled as the government seeks to prevent a mass ou…
続きを読むPolice confiscate ‘illegal income’ of developer deemed to have used ‘unauthorised channels’ to connect to international networksA programmer in northern China has been ordered to pay more than 1m yuan to the authorities for using a virtual private netw…
続きを読むCensorship, data harvesting and purchases of foreign news outlets could lead to ‘sharp contraction’ of freedom of expressionChina is manipulating global media through censorship, data harvesting and covert purchases of foreign news outlets, according t…
続きを読むFor the past five years India has shut down the internet more times than any other country affecting over 120 million peopleBryan Akoijam had spent years building up his entertainment company in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur. Between his thriv…
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