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Little Pinks, Ballpoint Pens, and Forced Demolitions
How about we tear down your house and assault your family in exchange for a ballpoint pen? To cartoonist Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒), the nationalist internet brigade known as the little pinks is happy with...
View ArticleBBC Team Assaulted, Forced to Sign Confession
The BBC’s John Sudworth reports that his team was attacked and forced to sign a confession while attempting to meet with a Beijing-bound petitioner ahead of this weekend’s Two Sessions political...
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Minitrue: Delete Reports on Call to Ease Internet Control
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. All...
View ArticleTycoon’s Claims Show Limits of China’s Anti-graft Drive
The number of prosecutions under Xi Jinping’s signature anti-corruption campaign fell last year for the first time since its inception, and commentators have noted a shift in Party disciplinarians’...
View ArticleChina Expected to Expand DNA Collection in Xinjiang
The Associated Press’ Matthew Brown reports on indications that public security authorities are laying groundwork for the mass collection of biometric data in the Xinjiang region, leading to concerns...
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Translation: Illegal Petitioning Can Affect Your Children!
A WeChat post last week from the public account XiaoJingZhiJia (@小警之家, which bills itself as “the most attentive police new media portal focused on the working lives of grassroots unit police...
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Minitrue: How to Report on the NPC (Etc), Part 3
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. March 7: 1. Concerning the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, all media must not...
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Minitrue: How to Report on the NPC (Etc), Part 4
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source....
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Defrauded P2P Investors’ Protest Quashed in Beijing
In recent months, the collapse of China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) loan industry has eradicated the life savings of many individuals who had put their money in the high-risk, high-return schemes. Once valued...
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Minitrue: Do Not Report Black Lung Protests
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. All...
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Minireview: 2018 in Censorship (Jan-Oct)
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in 2018, this small fraction of which were then leaked and distributed online. The names...
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Minitrue: Propaganda Directives for the Fifth Plenum
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Cyberspace Administration: Hello everyone, below you will find a summary...
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Petitioner Asked to Foot the Bill for Her Own “Stability Maintenance”
Petitioner Liu Li is being charged 2,081,740.10 RMB for “poverty-alleviation subsidies and stability-control work.” Liu Li has been petitioning for over a decade on behalf of her father, who suffered...
View ArticleCitizens and State Media Outraged by Government Abuse of Henan Health Codes
As citizens revolt against never-ending lockdowns and local governments “resolutely struggle against all distortions, doubts and denials” of Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy, as recently ordered by the...
View ArticleWords of the Week: “Criminalizing Creditors” by Accusing Them of “Picking...
Many entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens welcomed the news that provincial prosecutors in Guizhou are investigating a local government for arresting businesswoman Ma Yijiayi and her lawyers and...
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