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Apr 16 2012 3:46PM
Most inspiring weekend ever!

This weekend the digital team were at Amnesty's AGM. Whether you were there and want to relive it, or missed out and want to catch up, this is the post for you. [ View the story "Amnesty UK AGM 2012" on Storify ] Amnesty UK AGM 2012...

Apr 15 2012 4:30AM
Writers in Prison (15)

Li Tie (李铁,pen name: Hua Hanwu, Jiuding Baotang, born in 1962), a freelance writer from Wuhan city, Hubei province, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison with additional two years deprivation of political rights on charges of...

Apr 14 2012 8:37PM
Writers in Prison (14)

Gheyret Niyaz (born 1959), a Uyghur journalist and webmaster who was arrested in October 2009 after speaking to foreign reporters in the wake of July 5 unrest in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. He was sentenced on 23 July...

Apr 14 2012 5:09PM
Panel Discussion: Challenges of independent writings in China, East Turkistan, and Tibet

On the eve of the London Book Fair (16-18 April) this seminar provides an alternative platform for Chinese, Uyghur and Tibetan writers and researchers living in a free democratic society, to share their peers' experience and challenges...

Apr 13 2012 9:47PM
Writers in Prison (13)

Wang Xiaoning (王小宁,pen name: Shi Cheng, Chen Ping, Tiandi Pingshu), an engineer and freelance writer who was arrested in 2002 for “inciting subversion of state power”. He is currently serving his 10-year sentence in Beijing No 2 Prison...