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Jun 20 2014 2:58PM
Show trials, intolerance and discrmination: Gezi Park one year on

Twitter is everywhere these days and everyone seems to be tweeting - compressing our lives into short updates to share with the world. So what could be more ‘now’ than a twitter trial? I don’t mean trial by twitter of course, but...

Jun 18 2014 11:34PM
Activists Protested Against China's AIDS Premier Visiting UK

On 17 June, 2014, around 300 activists campaigning for freedom, human rights and democracy.staged a colorful protest against lLi Keqiang near Downing Street, fighting for free Tibet, free Eastern Turkistan, free China. https://www...

Jun 18 2014 11:19PM
Protests against China's AIDS Premier Visiting UK

Chinese Premier to visit UK 17-19 June 2014 [16 June 2014, UPDATED] Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is due to visit the UK on 17-19 June, during which time he is expected to meet the Queen, Prime Minister Cameron and various business...

Jun 17 2014 6:33PM
How to pick quarrels and influence people in China

In China “picking quarrels” is a serious criminal offence that can lead to spending lengthy amounts of time languishing in jail. Last week Amnesty highlighted the plight of human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang who was formally arrested for...

Jun 17 2014 11:15AM
The perfect storm of 'party political' and the Lobbying Act

Anyone familiar with the work of Amnesty International will know that in some places criticism of the government can get you into trouble. I nearly fell off my chair last week when I saw that Conor Burns MP had referred Oxfam GB to the...