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Inside China Today – Tuesday 15th September

Posted by Daniel Teng on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
 
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- Security ‘moat’ in place before National Day;
- Beijing human rights lawyers harassed before National Day;
- Nasty ‘disposable chopsticks’ made in Chinese prisons;
- Severe pollution around Hebei villages, children poisoned.
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Security ‘moat’ and armed police in place before National Day celebrations
Even before National Day on October 1rst, Beijing security is on the highest alert status. Armed [...]

Inside China Today – Thursday 3rd September

Posted by Daniel Teng on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
 
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- Jiang Xiqing’s family abducted for appealing over his suspicious death;
- Victims of forced evictions renounce the Communist Party;
- Coercive and violent demolition in Nanning;
- When ‘China rules the world’.
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Jiang Xiqing’s family abducted for appealing over his suspicious death
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A 66 year old man Jiang Xiqing from Jiangjin district, Chongqing Province, was persecuted to death [...]

Inside China Today – Thursday 20th August

Posted by Daniel Teng on Thursday, August 20th, 2009
 
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Headlines…
Serious metal contamination in Xiang River;
Reaction to government acquisition of Sichuan relief;
Protest applications by 500 teachers refused;
WOIPFG supports class action against persecution of Falun Gong.
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Serious metal contamination in Xiang River
According to recent reports on Süddeutsche Zeitung and TAGES ANZEIGER of Switzerland, the Xiang River in Hunan Province, China is seriously polluted. A staff member at [...]

Inside China Today – Thursday 13th August

Posted by Daniel Teng on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
 
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Headlines…
- Fears of ‘Internet subversion’ seen in Mainland media
- Local government abducts farmers and tears down houses
- Taizhou government withhold land compensation
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Fears of ‘Internet subversion’ seen in Mainland media
The charge of “inciting subversion of state power” is used liberally these days by the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, as a club to strike down the [...]

Inside China Today – Tuesday 11th August

Posted by Daniel Teng on Monday, August 10th, 2009
 
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Headlines…
- Wanted Uighur protestors already arrested
- CCP suppression spotlights independent Chinese radio network
- Supporters suppressed as Guoquan faces court
- Fresh wave of suppression on rights lawyers
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The CCP local government in Urumqi released an arrest warrant on July 29 for 15 people, among which 14 people are Uighur. At the World Uighur Congress, Mr. Dilxat Raxit [...]