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...sentence was the latest in a string of recent convictions and imprisoning of activists apparently designed to stifle even the slightest sign of dissent ahead of the Games. Even China's huge online population of some 230 million, which is often cited as the country's most powerful force for greater openness, has felt the heat. Thousands of websites have been shuttered while government controls and blocking of sites outside China has intensified significantly in recent months. As Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International put it in a report released on April 1, despite promises by both the International...
...increasingly bright spotlight on its dismal rights record. In fact, rights advocates inside and outside China say a string of recent convictions and the imprisoning of activists all over the country are just the latest in a yearlong, wide-ranging crackdown designed to stifle even the slightest sign of dissent ahead of the Games. Even China's huge online population of some 230 million, which is often cited as the country's most powerful force for greater openness, has felt the heat. Thousands of websites have been shuttered while government controls and blocking of sites outside China have intensified...
...protests," he says, "they are facing a pressure-cooker period." Beijing will have to keep a lid on Tibet, where rights groups say there are still sporadic protests despite weeks of virtual military law. But Beijing's problems are not confined to Tibet. There have also been rumblings of dissent in the far-western Xinjiang province, populated largely by the Uighur Muslim minority group. Protests by thousands of Uighurs over religious issues were reported by rights groups in late March. The Chinese press meanwhile has reported several recent clashes with separatist rebels in the province; in early March, the press...
WILL THERE BE MORE REFORMS AHEAD? Probably, but mostly economic ones. These moves seem to emulate the Chinese model: Give people more access to hard currency and free markets while keeping a lock on political dissent. But Raśl has encouraged public debate on Cuba's system, and his recent agreement to allow in U.N. rights inspectors could prompt more...
...Krahel: This University will try and squelch dissent. As somebody who was involved in the hunger strike, I know. They tried to kick us out of Harvard for doing the hunger strike. When it comes down to it, the administration and faculty in those times [during the Vietnam War] were vehemently opposed, and explicitly so, to anti-war activism. This created an opposition. On a lot of campuses, police, things like that were brought in. This was one of them. And they beat students. Students that were otherwise depoliticized saw that. That exploded campuses across the nation, including ours. Students...