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Yuan Hongbing
18. October, 2008Chinese Dissident Defects to Australia A Chinese dissident and former head of the Beijing University criminal law department, who was previously jailed for promoting democracy, has fled to Australia and is seeking asylum. Professor Yuan Hongbing, a law professor formerly at Beijing University and labour organizer, who was involved with a ‘Peace Charter’ reportedly modelled
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Geoffrey Sampson
18. October, 2008How the British Government classed me as a dissident A councillor unseated In May 2002 my life was turned upside down. I had been living quietly as a computer science professor in a provincial British university. For decades I had had a strong side interest in politics and current affairs. In the years when socialism
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Zhang Lin
18. October, 2008CONTROVERSIAL CHINESE WRITER Zhang Lin has been thrown in jail for five years over essays he posted on the internet, cited as a supposed threat to Chinese national security. Lin’s wife Fang Caofang reckons authorities are taking revenge for her husband’s controversial essays, which looked at such issues as protests by unemployed workers and jailed
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Wang Dan
18. October, 2008Chinese dissident hopes to appeal 11-year sentence Wang Dan convicted after short trial October 30, 1996 Web posted at: 10:45 a.m. EST (1545 GMT) In this story: Entire trial took four hours Active in 1989 pro-democracy movement Almost no dissidents left Related stories and sites From Beijing Bureau Chief Andrea Koppel BEIJING (CNN) — Prominent
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Barry Chamish
18. October, 2008For his outstanding efforts to investigate and document the murder of Yitzhak Rabin, among many other things as; For four years now the world has slept while William Colby decided to abandon his hot dinner and take a final canoe ride, while Vince Foster chose to crawl on his back so his suit would fill
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Henry Makow
18. October, 2008Makow, jewish writer, was born on Nov. 12, 1949, in Zurich, Switzerland. As a child he moved with his family to Canada, settling in Ottawa. He soon learned English and at the age of 11 was eager to work for spending money.
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Gilad Atzmon
20. September, 2008Gilad Atzmon (Hebrew: גלעד עצמון‎, born June 9, 1963) is a jazz musician, author and anti-Zionist activist who was born in Israel and currently lives in London. He was born a secular Israeli Jew in Tel Aviv, and trained at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. His service in the Israeli military convinced him
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Nguyen Van Ly
30. March, 2007Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest and dissident who has been under house arrest since 19 February, accused of “hostile propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.” “We are very worried about these three dissidents and, in general, about all the pro-democracy activists who signed the ’Bloc 8406’ petition in their real names,” the
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Le Thi Cong Nhan
8. March, 2007.03.07 – Two lawyers and cyber-dissidents arrested for “hostile propaganda” Reporters Without Borders today urged Hanoi-based diplomats to seek the release of Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan, both lawyers and cyber-dissidents, who were arrested at their homes this morning. Like Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest and dissident who has been
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Nguyen Van Dai
8. March, 2007.03.07 – Two lawyers and cyber-dissidents arrested for “hostile propaganda” Reporters Without Borders today urged Hanoi-based diplomats to seek the release of Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan, both lawyers and cyber-dissidents, who were arrested at their homes this morning. Like Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest and dissident who has been
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