Chinese Dissidents

China's Security Outsourcing Boom

AP | CHARLES HUTZLER | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Video, China Security Business, Yao Lifa, China Dissident Security, Chinese Dissidents, China, Chen Guangcheng, China Dissidents, China House Arrest, Dissidents, World News

BEIJING — Every workday at 7:20 a.m., colleagues pick up Yao Lifa from his second-floor apartment and drive him to the elementary school where h...

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Chinese Police Say Detained Artist Being Investigated For 'Suspected Economic Crimes'

Reuters | Chris Buckley | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Tan Zuoren, Beijing Olympics, Nobel Peace Prize, Artists, Shanghai, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Jasmine Revolution, Human Rights, Jon Huntsman, Activism, Liu Xiaobo, Ai Weiwei, Chinese Dissidents, China, Chen Guangcheng, World News

April 7, 2011 4:58:10 AM By Chris Buckley BEIJING, April 7 (Reuters) - Chinese police said the detained artist and activist Ai Weiwei is bei...

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WATCH: Ai Weiwei's Last Televised Interview

Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: China Arrest, China Protest, Ai Weiwei, Chinese Dissidents, Chinese Crackdown, China, World News

Footage of what has now become the last U.S. television interview with world-renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei before his widely-criticiz...

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Chinese Artist Missing After Airport Detention

AP | By ISOLDA MORILLO | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Tate, Ai Weiwei Missing, Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds, Lu Qing, Sculpture, Contemporary Art, Artist, Tate Turbine Hall, Chinese Dissidents, Ai Weiwei, China, Anti-Government, Arts News

BEIJING -- One of China's most famous contemporary artists remained missing Monday, more than a day after he was blocked from leaving the country and ...

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Contender for Nobel prize is in Chinese prison

AP | CARA ANNA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liu Xiaobo, Liu Xiaobo Nobel, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo China Prison, Liu Xiaobo Chinese Prison, Nobel Peace Prize, China, Chinese Dissidents, World News

BEIJING — When the police came for Liu Xiaobo on a December night nearly two years ago, they didn't tell the dissident author why he was being t...

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Freedom To Write: An Exiled Chinese Dissident, a Conference in Istanbul, and Some Milky Tea

Ming Holden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Writers, Human Rights, Inner Mongolia, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Chinese Dissidents, China Human Rights, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Mongolia, China, Refugees, Dissidents, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Expression, Politics News

The man I met in front of the State Department Store didn't look like a refugee, which goes to show how many assumptions I had. Tumenulzii had an open and youthful face.

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Gao Zhisheng: China's Defiance On Human Rights Stirs Fears For Missing Dissident

nytimes.com | ANDREW JACOBS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, China Execution, Gao Zhisheng, China, China Economy, China Human Rights, Chinese Dissidents, Chinese Democracy, World News

BEIJING -- A year ago this week, Chinese security agents made a midnight visit to the home of Gao Zhisheng, one of China's most high-profile human rig...

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China: Spirituality Or Materialism?

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Iranian Dissidents, Human Brain, Mahmoud Vahidnia, China Environment, Self-Cultivation, Environment, Iran, Luddites, Changing-Values, Chinese Dissidents, David Rock, China, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

Stripped of their cultural heritage by the brutality of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese seem to be in a headlong rush to what they think they want and need--the material excess of the West.

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Frankfurt Book Fair Official Fired For Treatment Of Chinese

The New York Times | STEVEN ERLANGER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communism, Censorship, Fired, Free Speech, Books, Book Fair, China, Chinese Writers, Chinese, Chinese Dissidents, Chinese Censorship, Frankfurt Book Fair, Books News

The Frankfurt Book Fair, which struggled to find a balance between free speech and honoring China as its featured country, dismissed its project manag...

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China Dissidents Top Nobel Peace Prize Speculation

AP | DOUG MELLGREN and IAN MacDOUGALL | Posted 05.25.2011

OSLO — Chinese dissidents are leading the odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre...

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Tiananmen Anniversary: Chinese Dissident Wu Gaoxing Arrested

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen 20th Anniversary, Foreign Affairs, Tiananmen Anniversary, Tiananmen Square, Chinese Dissidents, Wu Gaoxing, Tiananmen Square Anniversary, China, Advocacy, World News

With the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement approaching, government security agents have detained a noted Chinese dissid...

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Chinese Democracy -- the 1978 Version

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy, Beijing, China, Chinese Dissidents, Tiananmen Square, Protest, World News

More than a decade before the June 4th Massacre, right after Deng's Reform era began in China, came the "Democracy Wall Movement" -- named for a Beijing area where critics started putting up posters in 1978.

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Falun Gong, Other "Troublemakers" Confined to Shanghai During Games

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Falun Gong, Chinese Dissidents, Human Rights, China, Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Shanghai, Politics News

BEIJING — Shanghai has banned dissidents, Falun Gong members and other regime critics from leaving the city during the August Olympics, a human ...

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