The Chinese equipment, such as spiked batons, fuels human rights abuses by law enforcement authorities in African and Southeast Asian nations, the international human rights group said in a report.
A university professor who has come to symbolize peaceful resistance by ethnic Uighurs to Chinese policies was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of separatism in the western region of Xinjiang.
Though he has always advocated nonviolence and says he opposes separatism, Mr Tohti appears to be paying a price for a series of episodes of violent unrest involving Uighurs.
Vera Tollmann (1976) is a cultural scientist and freelance writer based in Berlin. In 2013, she co-curated the ninth edition of the Video Vortex conference at the Centre for Digital Cultures of Leuphana University Luneburg and the web video series "The Future of Cinema" for Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. She curated “Case Study China,” which was exhibited at House of World Cultures, Berlin, in 2009 and later at 4D, Berlin in 2011. Her small publication, China: Der deutschen Presse Märchenland 2 (2011) is an hommage to Gunter Amendt and his pamphlet of the same title and a text montage of newspaper articles about Ai Weiwei's arrest and release.
Tollman gave a presentation on hybrid video on the Chinese internet at The Idea of Radical Media Conference, organised by MaMa Media Lab in Zagreb, Croatia. Most recently, she curated a video program for the conference "Studying Modern China" (Mercator Institute for China Studies, Berlin, 2014). Her writing and teaching focuses on the effects of digitization, and over the past two years she has looked at online video from a journalistic and theoretical perspective.
Three recent items of news deserve attention. First, revisions to the budget law were passed late last month. Second, in a speech this month marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National People's Congress, Party General Secretary Xi Jinping called for "governance in accordance with the constitution" and pledged to build a government based on rule of law. Third, at a recent Summer Davos session, Premier Li Keqiang again stressed China would stick to the growth strategy of eschewing stimulus in favor of reform.
If pollution continues at the current rate, the limit for carbon will be reached in 30 years, the scientists concluded in a report issued on the eve of a United Nations summit designed to step up the fight against climate change.
Thousands of Hong Kong university students abandoned classes on Monday to rally against Chinese government limits on voting rights, a bellwether demonstration of the city’s appetite for turning smoldering discontent.
Tung Chee-hwa leads 70-strong delegation to Beijing; members come out strongly against Occupy Central, saying don't harm Hong Kong
When the ebola crisis first struck West Africa, China was among the only major powers to not only keep its personnel in the affected countries but to also send tens of millions of dollars in badly needed aid. The U.S., by contrast, was visibly absent. That is, until President Barack Obama announced the deployment of 3,000 U.S. military personnel on top of $175 million in other assistance. Now, critics are accusing China of not doing enough given its outsized economic presence in West Africa.
