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Apr 5 2012 1:10PM
Writers in Prison (5)

Tashi Rabten (pen name: The’urang), a student at the Northwest Nationalities University and the editor of banned literary magazine Eastern Snow Mountain ( Tibetan : Shar Dungri), was sentenced to four years in prison on 2 June 2011...

Apr 4 2012 6:33PM
Writers in Prison (4)

Chen Wei (陈卫, DOB: Feb 21, 1969), a native of Suining City, Sichuan Province, was a 1989 Tiananmen student protester from the Beijing Institute of Technology, majoring in mechanical engineering. He was imprisoned in Qincheng Prison and...

Apr 4 2012 11:28AM
Red ribbons for HIV-positive children in Tanzania

Amnesty International has revealed that several Tanzanian schools are forcing HIV-positive pupils to wear red ribbons to class . Amnesty International has cautioned against this practice, which stigmatizes those suffering from the...

Apr 4 2012 7:46AM
China Human Rights Briefing March 27-April 2, 2012

Top News • Arrested in Anti-Gang Campaign, Journalist Sentenced After Secret Trial: It was recently revealed that Chongqing journalist Gao Yingpu was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for a crime of “endangering state security”...

Apr 3 2012 11:18PM
Writers in Prison (3)

Today we are featuring Zhu Yufu (朱虞夫), a veteran Democracy Wall activist in the late 1970s and an editor of the Opposition Party (在野党) magazine which carried articles about the China Democratic Party in 1998-99. Zhu was convicted of...