China

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an RSF press release: For immediate release Paris, 20 October 1999 People’s Republic of China Since Jiang Zemin became president, 48 Chinese journalists have been jailed, and ten are still in prison Chinese president Jiang Zemin is due to arrive in Lyon, France, on Friday 22 October for a five-day […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an RSF press release: With Liu Xiaobo’s release, ten journalists remain imprisoned in China After three years in detention, Liu Xiaobo has been released. A dissident journalist and literary critic, he was arrested on 8 October 1996 and sentenced the next day, through an administrative sentencing, to three years of […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an RSF press release announcing an e-mail campaign to support Chinese cyber-dissidents and to protest against the censorship of the internet in China: **For background on the Qi Yanchen case see IFEX alert of 3 September 1999; for the Lin Hai alet see IFEX alerts of 20 January 1999 and […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a 3 September 1999 letter to Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji, RSF expressed its concern about the arrest of a dissident who wanted to print an Internet newsletter. RSF considers the arrest of Qi Yanchen as a violation of press freedom, guaranteed by the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, which […]

(HKJA/IFEX) – The following is a 22 August 1999 HKJA statement: The Law Reform Commission in Hong Kong has just released a consultation paper on the regulation of media intrusion. The most alarming proposal will, if adopted by the government, see the creation of a statutory press council to deal with complaints about breaches of […]

(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 13 August 1999 Human Rights Watch press release: ARRESTS IN XINJIANG (August 13, 1999, New York) — Human Rights Watch today called for the immediate release of a prominent businesswoman and five others arbitrarily detained earlier this week in the Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. Rebiya Kadeer, known […]

(HKJA/IFEX) – The HKJA is protesting action by security officers to obstruct Hong Kong journalists covering the visit to Beijing by three Federation of Students representatives opposing the re-interpretation of the Basic Law by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. Public security officers detained some ten Hong Kong journalists in Beijing. They confiscated […]

(HKJA/IFEX) – The following is a 3 June 1999 HKJA press release: HKJA Demands the Chinese Government Respect Press Freedom At the 10th anniversary of June 4th, the Hong Kong Journalists Association urges the Chinese Government to respect press freedom and freedom of expression, and to abandon the mistake of penalising expressions of opinion. One […]

(WiPC/IFEX) – WiPC is seriously concerned about the detention of leading pro-democracy activist Jiang Qisheng. According to WiPCs information, Jiang Qisheng was arrested at his home at 11.35 p.m. (local time) on 18 May 1999. Following his arrest, a large group of police reportedly ransacked his home and took away his writing materials, overseas Chinese […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF protests the censorship of the US news channel CNN. **Updates IFEX alert of 28 May 1999** According to news agencies’ reports, the Public State bureau and the Tourism bureau have decided to cut access to CNN for many Beijing residents until 8 June 1999. Reuters reported that “the CNN screen went black […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an RSF press release: Press release Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre In 10 years, 56 Chinese journalists imprisoned, over 40 foreign journalists arrested On 4 June 1989, Chinese army tanks crushed the student revolt on Tiananmen Square, Beijing, and sounded the death knell of open democratic opposition in China. […]

(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an IPI press release: On the eve of the International Press Institute’s World Congress in Taiwan, the IPI is launching a detailed report illustrating the deteriorating governmental respect for freedom of expression in China. Growing Media Repression and Self-Restraint in China Approaching three highly sensitive anniversaries – 40 years of […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ press release: **Updates IFEX alert of 10 May 1999**

(HKJA/IFEX) – The following is a 9 May 1999 HKJA press release: HKJA Condemns the Killings of Journalists in Yugoslavia The Hong Kong Journalists Association condemns the killing of three Chinese journalists at NATO’s bombing of the People’s Republic of China’s embassy in Yugoslavia. The HKJA will write to consulates of NATO’s members in Hong […]

(WiPC/IFEX) – WiPC has received confirmation that Guizhou poet Xue Deyun has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. He was convicted at Guiyang Municipal People’s Court in November 1998 of “engaging in subversive activities,” violating “article 105.2 of the Chinese Penal Code,” and attempting to overthrow “the socialist system by rumour-mongering [or] slander.” It is […]

(WiPC/IFEX) – The following is a WiPC special action to mark the tenth Anniversary of the suppression of the 1989 pro-democracy movement, 1 to 10 June 1999: To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the brutal suppression of the 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement, the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN is launching a campaign to release […]