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...used to be the Tibetans were protesting against Chinese rule," says Nicholas Bequelin, China researcher with New York-based Human Rights Watch. "But now they're protesting against the destruction of their whole civilization, their whole world. They feel that they are doomed if they don't do something. And when people feel that desperation there's no knowing what it could lead them...
...Spielberg's departure is bad news for China. "They are trying to have a perfect Games and present a picture of unmitigated success to the world," says Nicholas Bequelin of New York-based Human Rights Watch. "And here is something that is not a success...
...Congress. The run-up to the party's biggest get-together is always a tense time, with security officials desperate to prevent any disruptions. But this meeting, at which the government sets policy goals and anoints a new generation of leaders, set China in a "deep freeze," says Nicholas Bequelin of New York-based Human Rights Watch. In the past, the freeze has always been followed by a thaw that saw detained activists released and a lightening of the heavy hand of control over the media and Internet. This time, though, Bequelin says, it could be different: "By trying...
...enforcement officers are a visible sign of their precautions; other preparations have been continuing for months. Previous Congresses had been preceded by a tightening of control on those whom the authorities consider troublemakers, but the "depth and thoroughness of the crackdown this time was unprecedented," according to Nicholas Bequelin of New York-based Human Rights Watch. Bequelin believes the months-long operation of intimidation, beating and occasional kidnapping of everyone from dissidents and public interest lawyers to housing rights activists and peasant petitioners reflects the government's unease about rising social unrest in the country. "Beijing may look peaceful...
...kidnapping - he says he has no idea who the men were, but they were almost certainly officials from one department or another of China's vast security apparatus - is the culmination of a crackdown ahead of the Congress that Nicholas Bequelin of New York-based Human Rights Watch says has put the country "into a deep freeze." A number of other activists have been harassed or detained, including Gao Zhisheng, a pioneering lawyer who had written an open letter calling for greater democracy in China and characterizing the upcoming Beijing 2008 Games as the "Handcuff Olympics." Petitioners have not only...