On January 23, 2013, Harry Wu, Founder and Executive Director of the Laogai Research Foundation was invited to give the keynote speech at the Second Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy at University of Louisville.
(Originally published on Feb 5, 2013 on the TeaLeafNation by Minami Funakoshi)
In 1987, when Taiwanese President Chiang Ching-kuo finally lifted martial law after nearly forty years, Taiwan’s Government Information held its first Taipei International Book Exhibition.
(By Julian Ryall, Tokyo 10:19AM GMT 25 Jan 2013)
Human rights activists are turning to Google Earth to identify the vast network of prison camps that dot the North Korean countryside and hold as many as 200,000 people deemed hostile to the regime.
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Our friends at the International Campaign for Tibet are sponsoring a discussion with Chinese writer Yu Jie. Please see below for more details, we hope you see you there!
WASHINGTON, DC — Working conditions and worker rights in China are unchanged.
CECC Hearing on "One Year After the Nobel Peace Prize Award to Liu Xiaobo: Conditions for Political Prisoners and Prospects for Political Reform"
(11 November 2011) - Washington, D.C.- On November 17, 2011, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China will hold a hearing on "China's Censorship of the Internet and Social Media: The Human Toll
A victim of China's oppressive authoritarian regime for most of his life, Liu Xianbin has repeatedly spoken out for human rights and democracy while sacrificing his own freedom.
Du Daobin is one of the earliest cyber dissident writers in China. By the time of his detention in October 2003, he had published tens of articles on the internet at home and abroad.
