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Caroline Fohlin, the Emory professor of economics seen on video being thrown to the ground and handcuffed by an Emory police officer for expressing concern at the violent arrest of a protester on campus, was jailed for 11 hours and charged with... Battery Against Police Officer

#BREAKING A representative of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been deported from Hong Kong on arrival to the territory to monitor the landmark trial of publisher Jimmy Lai, the international press freedom concern group said in a statement.

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'It was hard for [Chinese dissidents] to process.. that Navalny was able to send hundreds of handwritten letters from jail..The names of most Chinese political prisoners are censored online. Once arrested, they are never heard from again.' Li Yuan袁莉 nytimes.com/2024/02/29/bus…

BREAKING: Top Hong Kong court overturns Tiananmen activist Chow Hang-tung’s acquittal over 2021 vigil

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NYT: Jiang Ping, the ‘Conscience of China’s Legal World,’ Dies at 92. “A nation that does not know how to summarize the lessons of its own history is not a serious nation.”
Vivian Wang Joy Dong
nytimes.com/2023/12/27/wor…

In response to questions about the bomb’s use in south Gaza, an Israeli military spokesman said in a statement to The Times that Israel’s priority was destroying Hamas and “questions of this kind will be looked into at a later stage.” nytimes.com/2023/12/21/wor…

love this, on the sheer joy of Shanghai Halloween, which “celebrated things Chinese censors normally suppress: elements of LGBT life, political or social criticism, or simply appearances that mainstream Chinese society might consider too flamboyant.”

nytimes.com/2023/11/01/wor…

#LuSiwei is confirmed detained in his home province Sichuan, said his wife.

#China 's transnational long arms grabbed him in #Laos as the human rights lawyer tried to escape persecution.

#Laos gov obeyed Beijing's order to arrest him despite his risk of being tortured.

The New York Times is looking for an experienced journalist to cover the technology industry, everything from the companies to government policy and consumer trends, in Asia. More details here:
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via @NYTimes. By ⁦Vivian Wang⁩ nytimes.com/2023/09/02/wor…

'How can the world believe' the Saudi crown prince 'is reforming when a citizen is going to have his head cut off over tweets on an anonymous account with less than 10 followers?' cbsnews.com/news/saudi-ara…

NYT: 'Differing official and on-the-ground narratives are hardly new in China, with its tightly controlled censorship apparatus. But the contrast is especially stark now, when the public’s gloom is so widespread.'
Vivian Wang
nytimes.com/2023/08/29/wor…

Glad to get to share this story in audio form as well — with many details that didn’t make it into the text story, and where you can hear from Bei directly

China has placed more and more restrictions on the lives of its citizens — tightening its hold over what people can do, read and say.

Today’s episode of The Daily tells the story of one couple torn apart by the crackdown.
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'Every time they went through airport security check, they said they were careful to keep silent. They had heard from other pilgrims that Qinghai province security officers had been stationed at airports fanning out across China to pick out their regional accents.'

Loved reporting this piece, about Chinese miniaturists helping people recreate their demolished childhood homes — an exercise in nostalgia and intimacy in a country that has changed breathtakingly quickly nytimes.com/2023/08/19/wor…

'In cities like Beijing, where rapid urban development resulted in a massive sprawl of concrete infrastructure, that means a lethal concentration of surface that is effectively waterproof... When it pours, the water has nowhere to go.'
Very cool graphics: reuters.com/graphics/CHINA…