Archive for the '2008 Beijing Olympics' Category

ICT - The CCP persecutes Uighur people before the Olympics

Posted by Daniel Tang on Monday, July 14th, 2008
 
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The Chinese Communist authorities have used terrorism as a basis for prosecuting fifteen ethnic Uighurs. The United States Congress human rights core group issued a statement accusing the Chinese Communists in Beijing of persecuting the Uighur people before the Olympic games.

Breaking News - Beijing’s torrential rain highlights inadequate transport infrastructure

Posted by Daniel Tang on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
 
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On the evening of July third, heavy rainfall in Beijing and ninety percent of flights were delayed at the Capital Airport. The airport highway was temporarily closed. Power at Chongwenmen Subway Station was cut due to flooding, resulting in the main north-south train route being cut off for three hours, stranding many passengers.

Breaking News - Christian Family Church members attacked by police on 1st July

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
 
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Around 8:30 pm in the evening of July 1, Christian Family Church member Hua Hui-Qi was suddenly swarmed and beaten by over 30 mobs from Chongwen District State Security and the Public Security Bureau. At the same time, his brother Hua Hui-lin was also bashed. Then the whole family was evicted and stayed on the [...]

Breaking News - Falun Gong practitioners arrested in the pretext of Olympics

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
 
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With the approaching Olympics, The Communist regime is behaving extremely secretively like a calamity is drawing near. According to an insider, during the Olympic Games, to ban Falun Gong practitioners and dissidents from appeals, the Communist authorities issued a death order that public security must take various approaches to silence voices of dissidents.
According to sources [...]

Breaking News - Mainland lawyers banned from meeting U.S. delegation

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
 
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The U.S. Congress and a human rights group said on July 1 that Chinese police banned two  Chinese dissident lawyers from meeting the visiting U.S. congressmen.

Breaking News - Democracy activists suppressed ahead of the Beijing Olympics

Posted by Daniel Tang on Monday, June 30th, 2008
 
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The Chinese Communist Regime has continued its heavy-handed approach in the oppression against dissidents. On June twenty seventh, Communist officials summoned five Hangzhou dissidents while members of China Democratic party continue to be arrested by the regime. CDP’s Gansu representative Yue Tianxiang who was recently released from jail was illegally detained again after visiting relatives [...]

Breaking News - Mosque in Uighur facing demolition for not publicing the Olympic Games

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, June 26th, 2008
 
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A countryside mosque that has existed for more than 10 years in Aksu Keping County at Uighur Autonomous Region is to be demolished by the authorities with the reason being “illegal missionary activities”. The Uighur human rights organization said that the incident related to the mosque not cooperating with the Olympic publicity of the Chinese [...]

Australian Senate Calls to End Persecution of Falun Gong

Posted by Wilma Reynolds on Thursday, June 26th, 2008
 
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The Australian Senate has voted unanimously to end the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual group in China, condemning what humanitarian groups call the worst human rights crisis currently facing China.
The motion, moved by Greens Senator Ms Kerry Nettle, was passed unanimously in the Senate on Tuesday. The vote represents the first time that the [...]

Breaking News - Chinese communist regimes steps up oppression of human rights activists ahead of the Beijing Olympics

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
 
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Ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August, the Chinese Communist Party has not only failed to fulfil its promise to improve human rights in China, it has strengthened its oppression and surveillance of human rights. Dissidents are subject to detention, stalking and monitoring in a bid by the CCP to prevent events during the Olympics [...]

Breaking News - Lhasa, one hundred-day resistance against despotic rule

Posted by Daniel Tang on Monday, June 23rd, 2008
 
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It has been one hundred days since the Communist authorities violently suppressed mass resistance in Lhasa against its despotic rule. Since then the Beijing Olympic torch relay has reached Lhasa.