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...made scores of other arrests. But increased pressure may have already backfired. Residents and activist groups outside China say that since Mutallip's death, Khotan and surrounding areas have been roiled by protests involving a few dozen to nearly a thousand demonstrators. "The demonstrations are indicative of the widespread dissent in Xinjiang's Uighur community and how quickly that dissent can become explosive with only a little agitation," Elizabeth Van Wie Davis, co-editor of the 2007 book Islam, Oil & Geopolitics: Central Asia Since September 11, wrote in a recent academic paper...
Whatever the efficacy of dissent, speaking courageously for truth and justice is the job of the academy. Professor Stanley Hoffman speaks forcefully regarding the responsibility of the intellectual. Tenured professors, particularly in elite institutions, are protected members of society. We hope and trust that a increasing number of them will recognize that along with these privileges come important responsibilities, particularly in times of crises...
...vision. He sees the earth at a tipping point, full of fresh opportunities to eradicate poverty and promote social justice, yet fraught with looming dangers as its peoples struggle to adapt to globalization, technological advances and climate change. But there are those who think that Brown, buffeted by dissent and blindsided by serial mishaps, could soon be forced into singing his own sad song of departure. And the medicine he's proposing for the international community - a reinvigorated multilateralism, in which nations work together through institutions like the United Nations, NATO, the IMF and the World Bank, coupled with radical...
...that has gone into the Beijing Olympics, China's leaders have seemingly been caught off guard by the most predictable of challenges: discontent in Tibet and international condemnation of Beijing's record of repression. The extent of their surprise can be gauged by their reaction--a brutal crackdown on dissent at home and a deaf ear to criticism from abroad--which is more reminiscent of the heavy-handed communist regime of old than the modern, moderate Beijing that the Olympics are meant to showcase...
...Chinese authorities have responded to the clamor by further tightening the clamps on domestic dissent. On April 3, prominent human-rights activist Hu Jia received a 3 1/2-year prison sentence on charges of inciting subversion of state power. Hu's conviction, apparently stemming from articles he wrote and interviews he gave linking the Olympics with human rights in China, was the latest in what rights advocates in China say is a string of detentions of activists all over the country. Beijing is also applying pressure on China's huge online population of some 230 million, which is often cited...