An international press flexibility group has actually cautioned of a campaign of coronavirus misinformation by China, which it ranked 177 th out of 180 countries in a yearly global press flexibility index on Tuesday Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) cautioned that Beijing has been running a “global disinformation campaign” since the start of the pandemic […]

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Police in Hong Kong detained 14 pro-democracy figures on Saturday, consisting of Democratic Party creator Martin Lee, rights attorney Albert Ho and media magnate Jimmy Lai, for “illegal assembly” in connection with mass street demonstrations in 2015. Martin Lee is thought about the grandpa of the Hong Kong democracy motion, while Lai owns the Apple […]

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Authorities in the main Chinese city of Wuhan on Friday raised the official death toll, where the coronavirus epidemic emerged in 2015, by 50 percent. Authorities at the city’s epidemic control head office added 1,290 deaths to the variety of formally acknowledged deaths, bringing the overall figure to 3,869 The modified death toll was launched […]

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Social media users from Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong have actually required to Twitter in current days to counter at China’s “Little Pink” nationalists, who began trolling Thai users after an online run-in with Thai star Vachirawat Cheevaari (referred to as Bright) and his sweetheart Weeraya Sukaram. The row appeared after online advocates of the […]

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Police in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan apprehended at least 8 people in an Easter Sunday raid on the houses of Early Rain Covenant Church members, RFA has actually found out. Police robbed an online conference of the church in a synchronised operation targeting church deacons, ministers, volunteers and routine members in their houses […]

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A lawyer in the main Chinese province of Henan who was disciplined for composing on social media about the variety of dead bodies being cremated in the main city of Wuhan has actually deserted her appeal against the sanction. Liu Yingying ended up being the topic of a disciplinary action by the official attorneys’ association […]

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China’s appointment to a United Nations human rights panel has actually triggered a global outcry, specifically amongst rights activists and ethnic minority groups subject to Beijing’s rights abuses and discrimination. The nation was designated on Wednesday to a panel where it will play a crucial role in picking U.N. Human Rights Council’s private investigators charged […]

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Migrant workers in the main Chinese city of Wuhan who assisted construct field hospitals in record time to fulfill a frustrating need for coronavirus beds have not been paid in full yet, RFA has actually found out. Workers from other parts of China were at first brought in by a guarantee of 3,000 yuan/day for […]

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Issues were growing on Tuesday for a university student in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, after he posted a video to social media getting in touch with President Xi Jinping to step down. In the video, Zhang Wenbin states he was when a “little pink” advocate of the judgment Chinese Communist Party, however that […]

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As authorities raised a two-month coronavirus lockdown in the main Chinese city of Wuhan, homeowners stated they were growing progressively hesitant that the figure of some 2,500 deaths in the city to date was precise. Because the start of the week, 7 big funeral houses in Wuhan have actually been distributing the cremated remains of […]

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