China: Religion and Dissent Excluded from Live Streaming
A new regulation targets influencers and will also punish jokes about Xi Jinping.
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Sichuan Tibetan Intellectual Sentenced to Four and a Half Years in Jail
Tudan Lödup (Luo Zhu) defended the use of Tibetan language. He has been sentenced for “separatism.”
Pastor Geng Zejun Committed to Trial
The preacher of the Church of the Rock in Shizuishan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, remains in jail and may be sentenced in July.
Bishop Cui Tai Still Detained: Will the Vatican Insist on His Release?
Only by making his liberation a pre-condition for renewing the agreement with China will the Holy See be able to end the prelate’s calvary.
Talent Agents New Regulations: No Agents for Those Active in Illegal Religion
The new rules come into force on June 30 and deprive of agents’ services performers who criticize the CCP, are suspected of ‘separatism,” or follow non-authorized religions.
Wulun Culture: Crackdown on a Neo-Confucian Movement
When Confucianism is taught independently, courses and seminars are quickly prohibited and teachers go to jail.
Dragon Boat Festival Used for Anti-Religious Propaganda
In Guangzhou, the elderly were “helped” to celebrate the Dragon Boat festival and told they should not waste their pension money in illegal religion, xie jiao, or superstition.
China: Human Rights Lawyers in Jail: Why Didn’t Bachelet Visit Them?
Hundreds of attorneys are in jail just for defending human rights cases. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights was asked to visit at least three of them. She didn’t.
The Bachelet Visit: Uyghurs Protest in Istanbul
Pleas for the lost reverberated in Istanbul recently as relatives of China’s illegally detained Uyghurs gathered to protest the innocence of their loved ones and demand the UN finds them and brings them home.
