Ai Weiwei, China’s best-known dissident artist, is called God Ai by his supporters. Ai helped design the Bird’s Nest stadium for the 2008 Summer...
China releases dissident artist Ai Weiwei
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CATEGORY: China
Liu Xiaobo win prompts Chinese media blackout
One of China's best-known dissidents Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday night. Liu is currently serving an 11 year prison sentence for...
In China’s murky censorship machine detention is rarely legal
Last month, Xie Chaoping, author of The Great Migration, was detained for 30 days on the trumped up charge of operating an illegal business. The...
Yu Jie chooses to publish and be damned
“No one living in China is more daring than the maverick writer Yu Jie,” journalist and historian Jonathan Mirsky wrote more than five years ago....
Olympic challenge
As the Games begin in Beijing, Index publishes a roundup of arrests, detentions and surveillance since January –-- a reminder that China has yet to...
Countdown to Beijing, part 4
Continuing our series of articles from Index on Censorship’s ‘Made In China’ issue, Internet pioneer Isaac Mao explains why freedom of thought is...
Countdown to Beijing, part 3
Continuing our series of articles from Index on Censorship's 'Made In China' issue, Rebecca MacKinnon discusses how online pioneers are changing...
Arrests in China
Huang Qi was arrested on 10 July for ‘illegal possession of state secrets’. He posted articles criticising the way relief was organised after the 12...
Countdown to Beijing part 2
In the run up to the Olympics, Indexoncensorship.org is publishing a selection of pieces from the current issue of the magazine:Made in China. Yan...