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VOA News: Trial Begins for 15 Falun Gong Practitioners
2002-09-19 -
Far Eastern Economic Review: Govt Exerts More Control As More Chinese Go On-Line
2002-09-19 -
South China Morning Post: Chinese dissidents report state-sponsored hacking from Beijing
2002-09-18 -
Taipei Times: China part of psychiatric axis of evil
2002-09-18 -
Newsmax.com: China Chokes the Internet
2002-09-17 -
BBC Monitoring: Hong Kong editorial urges prompt clarification on anti-subversion law
2002-09-17"The shadow loomed larger than ever last week as it became clear that these laws are finally on the way. A government consultation paper could be released as early as next month." -
Press Release: Inside a Chinese Forced Labour Camp
2002-09-17"His screams and cries from the torture made us feel that we were living in hell." -- Labour Camp Detainee -
Business Week Online: The Great Firewall of China
2002-09-17"Jiang's government wants to put blinders on its Netizens-- something Beijing is getting better at every day. China's censors have installed what critics dub the Great Firewall--a giant filter to restrict what Chinese citizens can read on the Net" -
New York Times: China Seems to Refine Bid to Restrict Web Access
2002-09-15 -
FDI: Toronto Residents Mourn Friend's Death in China with Candlelight Vigil (Photo)
2002-09-14Falun Gong practitioners and supporters gathered for a candlelight vigil outside the Chinese consulate to honor their friend, Mr. Chan, recently tortured to death by authorities in China. -
AP: Hong Kong justice chief: Time has come for subversion law
2002-09-14After five years as part of China, Hong Kong must soon enact an anti-subversion law, the justice secretary said Friday in an announcement critics have been dreading ever since the handover. -
The Houston Chronicle: CHINA'S DISSIDENTS; Must open mental wards for honest examinations
2002-09-14China continues to deny long-standing accusations that it silences political dissidents and [practitioners] of the Falun Gong spiritual [movement] by imprisoning them in mental hospitals, where they are subjected to mind-altering psychiatric drugs and electric shock treatments. -
Reuters: China still blocking some Google links
2002-09-14China is once again allowing its citizens to use the popular search engine Google, but is still blocking Internet users from content it deems politically taboo as part of a media crackdown ahead of November's pivotal Communist Party congress. -
Foreign Affairs: China's Governance Crisis (Part II of Two Parts Series)
2002-09-14 -
CNN: China gags media ahead of party gathering
2002-09-12