China News
News from China with a focus on human rights and religious liberty
Thursday, April 22, 2004

Cameras eye Shanghai web users. Shanghai installs video cameras in its internet cafes as part of a crackdown on web use. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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China Reports Suspected Case of SARS in Beijing. A nurse in Beijing was hospitalized with a suspected case of SARS and five other people were isolated with fevers. By Jim Yardley. [New York Times: International]
10:16:03 PM    comments []

Products Worldwide Made by Falun Gong Slave Labor
Labor Camps Reduce Production Costs to Shore up Chinese Exports
NEW YORK (FDI) - Mr. Wang Jiangping is handicapped and can’t knit as fast as the others. It’s almost 2:00 a.m. and the Division Six prisoners have been working since dawn. They have to meet the deadline. His fellow Falun Gong practitioners nod off only to be wakened by guards stabbing them with scissors. The guards throw bricks at his chest. The Changji Labor Camp has to meet Tianshan Wooltex’s quota of Kashmir sweaters, or the guards won’t get their bonus. The Chinese "reform through labor" camps have become privatized. They are small enterprises that sign contracts with big companies and export products to overseas shopping malls. It is a place where torturers get rich, and where Falun Gong practitioners slave to pay for the purchase of the electric batons that will shock them if they slow down. [Read full story]

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CHENEY SPEECH CENSORED IN CHINA’S OFFICIAL MEDIA [RFA]
10:07:14 AM    comments []

Report: Shanghai Will Monitor Internet. Authorities are installing video cameras and high-tech software in Shanghai's Internet cafes and bars to make sure customers don't look at forbidden Web sites, a state-run newspaper reported Thursday. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
9:43:22 AM    comments []

China finds suspected SARS patient in Beijing (Channel News Asia). BEIJING : China has detected a suspected case of the respiratory disease SARS in the capital Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency cited the Ministry of Health announcing Thursday. [Google World]
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