Dissident Suffers Beatings in Detention. Chinese authorities may have repeatedly beaten a Mongolian writer in custody. An ethnic Mongolian dissident writer has been subjected to repeated harassment and beatings by authorities while in detention in northern China, according to new photos obtained by a Mongolian rights group. The New York-based Southern Mongolia Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) said in a statement Thursday that it had received new information showing Govruud Huuchinhuu, a former activist in the 1981 Mongolian student movement, with severe bruising on her face and arms. “SMHRIC obtained a written communication and new photos dated from July 20 to July 30, 2011, showing that Ms.
Huuchinhuu Govruud … was frequently beaten by police from the Tongliao city Horchin district Public Security Bureau in eastern [Inner] Mongolia,” the statement said. Huuchinhuu has been held in Tongliao city under “enforced disappearance” since Jan. 27, when she was released from the hospital following treatment for a stroke. The U.S. Chinese Officials Seized and Sold Babies, Parents Say. Chinese President Hu Jintao finds bipartisan rebuke from Capitol Hill. Chinese President Hu Jintao held closed-door meetings Thursday morning with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders, who raised concerns about business and human rights matters a day after Hu was feted at the White House but also pressed on those issues by President Obama. In an hour-long meeting between Hu and House leaders, Speaker John A.
Boehner (R-Ohio) emphasized intellectual property protections and security on the Korean Peninsula, while Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) addressed human rights matters. After walking across the Capitol for a similar meeting with Senate leaders, Hu later delivered a speech to U.S. business leaders, assuring them that China will stick to its policy of opening up to the world and denying that his country has expansionist intentions. But he said the ruling Chinese Communist Party remains committed to building "a modern socialist country," and he rejected interference regarding Taiwan and Tibet, which China regards as internal matters. China Blocks UN Action Against North Korea, AFP Reports. China 'ready to abandon' its old ally North Korea - World Politics, World. As the prospect of a collapse of the regime in North Korea has seemed increasingly real to the worldwide diplomatic community, the Chinese government has begun to acknowledge in private that it would no longer consider the creation of a unified Korean peninsula under the control of Seoul anathema.
Some long-held myths about China's attitudes towards the hermit regime in Pyongyang are blown apart in the latest trove of previously secret cables plucked from traffic between America's diplomatic missions abroad and the State Department in Washington. They reveal, for example, senior Chinese envoys revealing, if not directly to US counterparts then to opposite numbers in Seoul, that they sometimes are as flummoxed and as irritated with Pyongyang as the West, saying on one occasion that it was behaving like "a spoilt child" trying to get everyone's attention. Caution will doubtless be urged about these cables.
Nothing here could possibly be described as China's official position. China Closes Internet Forum. Chinese authorities shut down an online discussion board after users comment on a dissident's award. HONG KONG—Chinese authorities have closed a popular Internet discussion forum, or Bulletin Board System (BBS), in the wake of the awarding of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, and are holding its organizer under house arrest. The organizer, known by his online nickname of Zhang Shuji, or Party Secretary Zhang, said the forum was closed on Friday after it began a discussion of Liu's Nobel Prize. "I have been confined to house arrest and prevented from going out for the past few days," said Zhang, who was contacted by national security police in Beijing and told to close the popular "1984bbs" site. "They told me that if I carried on like that, then I would have to take responsibility for the road I was taking," he said.
He said he would keep a back-up copy of articles and discussions that were already posted to the site. Discussion blocked Prize to dissident. Analysis: China toughs out crisis sitting on Korean fence. China 'opposes force' in Korean Peninsula dispute, Premier Wen Jiabao says. WEN Jiabao has said China "opposes any threat of force" on the Korean Peninsula and is committed to maintaining peace in the wake of North Korea's deadly artillery attack. The statement comes as South Korea beefs up its military presence on five islands bordering the North. “The current situation we are facing is severe and complicated,” the Chinese Premier was quoted as saying during a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in reports carried in state-run Chinese news agencies today. “All parties concerned should maintain an utmost restraint. The international community should do more to ease the ongoing tension.” The rhetoric falls short of the level of involvement the rest of the world wants to see from Beijing.
The Chinese government is under pressure to help implement sanctions against North Korea, reduce its economic assistance to the rogue state and convince it to stop its attacks on the South and its pursuit of a nuclear arsenal. - with AFP. Chinese news media stay resolutely silent on Nobel winner - latimes.com. Reporting from Beijing — The silence was conspicuous in China on Saturday. Dissident Liu Xiaobo languished in a prison cell, possibly unaware that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize a day earlier. His wife was incommunicado after telling a reporter she was being taken away by police.
And the Chinese news media appeared determined to pretend that nothing had happened. As for most Chinese, they didn't have to pretend. Many of them don't know Liu exists, let alone that he has been honored with the world's most coveted award. This is the paradox of China: It's an economic superpower that is very much a part of the world and yet, at times, separate from it. On Saturday, the world was there, with TV news reports of the toxic sludge in Hungary and other global events. Only the Global Times, an English-language newspaper put out by the Chinese government, carried a stinging rebuke in its Saturday editions.
Liu, the newspaper's unsigned editorial said, is "an incarcerated Chinese criminal. " Chinese woman sent to labor camp for retweeting. By Nov 19, 2010 9:59AM UTC China has sentenced a woman to a year in a labor camp for “disrupting social order” by retweeting a satirical message urging Chinese protesters to smash the Japan pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, an international rights group said. Cheng Jianping, 46, re-posted a message from the social networking site Twitter last month hinting that Chinese protesters should smash the Japan pavilion at the Shanghai Expo and adding on the message “Angry youth, charge!” According to Amnesty International, which condemned the sentence in a statement late Thursday. Amnesty said Cheng’s retweet was meant as satire, mocking anti-Japanese protesters who had grown in number since tensions between the countries increased after a dispute erupted in September over islands claimed by both Japan and China. Government officials could not immediately be reached for comment.