Detained in China for “espionage” since January 2019, Yang Hengjun is denied medical care despite significant health deterioration. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges for the release of Chinese-born Australian political commentator.
In Asia, freedom of the press continues to erode, especially in authoritarian regimes where journalists are often targeted in broad daylight.More and more, journalists are put behind bars or fa
Last month, a Chinese court sentenced the civil rights activists and lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi to fourteen and twelve years in prison for “subverting state power,” a charge arising from an informal gathering of fellow activists the two had put together in 2019 in the southern coastal city of Xiamen. The following conversation, excerpted and translated, comes from an
An online debate about the definition of sexual harassment has broken out in China after a series of allegations were made against an influential screenwriter.