Archive for June, 2006

Fu Xiancai paralysed after attack

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Fu Xiancai, a brave campaigner for the rights of people displaced by China’s Three Gorges Dam, is in hospital, paralysed with a broken neck after he was apparently attacked by thugs on the way home from a meeting with police officials unhappy with his contact with foreign journalists, rights activists report.

Getting into censor’s mindset

Monday, June 12th, 2006

Thoughts from a journalist based in Beijing, China.