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News from China with a focus on human rights and religious liberty
Thursday, January 08, 2004

Rights Groups Criticize China's Control of SARS Reporting. VOA Jan 8 2004 9:41AM ET [Moreover - China news]
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CHINA: Activist jailed over June 4 petition (asiamedia/UCLA)

Veteran dissident Sang Jiancheng has been jailed for three years for subversion after distributing a letter calling on the government to reassess its verdict on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests


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Police Raid China Newspaper That Reported New SARS Case. The newspaper was the first media outlet to report on a fresh outbreak of SARS in Guangzhou, the paper's hometown. By Joseph Kahn. [New York Times: International]
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China Fires About 45,000 Police for Abuses. China has dismissed 44,701 police for lacking job qualifications, corruption or other offenses in a campaign to raise policing standards, state media said Thursday. The mass firings from departments nationwide came during a four-month campaign that ended in November, the Xinhua News Agency and newspapers reported. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
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Editor Who Broke SARS News Is Questioned. An editor whose newspaper broke the news of China's first new SARS case was detained and questioned by prosecutors, a human rights center reported. Cheng Yizhong, editor in chief of the Southern Metropolitan Daily, declined to comment on his reported questioning, but appeared to indicate the issue may have been resolved. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
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China Identifies 2nd Suspected SARS Case. A waitress hospitalized in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou was declared the country's second suspected SARS case of the season on Thursday, just as the first patient was pronounced recovered and released. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
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Democracy Wall for China Mainland. (taken from email sent out by Democracy Wall)

Hello,

  Just a note to let everyone know that the Democracy Wall for China
Mainland has had some major improvements recently.

  The original WALL only showed the most recent 125 (later 150)
entries.  This limitation has been eliminated recently.  Also,
Visitors now have an opportunity to comment interactively to each
entry on the WALL by clicking the "Comments()" link at the bottom of
any entry.  To create a new entry on the WALL, Click "Respond on The
WALL" link at at the bottom of any entry.

  There are some useful related links recently added as well, to the
"menu of links", including links to anonymous remailers, and Real Time
Testing to see if a particular site URL is being blocked on the
mainland.  This item actually checks from a computer in mainland
China's capital.

  The WALL was originally created in support of the Global Petition
Campaign convened by Wang Dan in 1989.  The site was june4.org and
later june4.org.hk .  Both of these are now gone.

  I am working with the original webmaster of june4 to create a new
and improved version, which will be at june04.org and june04.net soon.
 Until then, a historical snapshot from the internet archive (with a
live link to the WALL) is available at june4org.tripod.com .

  -Admin, Democracy Wall
  
http://books.dreambook.com/vead/tiananmen.html


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The latest newsletter from Christian Monitor is out today. CM monitors Christian persecution around the world. This issue contains updates on ten countries including China, Vietnam and Laos.  Visit their excellent web site or subscribe by sending a blank/empty email to:

newsletter-subscribe@christianmonitor.org


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