nybooks.com - 1/3/2009
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Volume 56, Number 1 · January 15, 2009 China's Charter 08 Translated from the Chinese by Perry Link The document below, signed by more than two thousand Chinese citizens, was conceived and written in conscious admiration of the founding of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia, where, in January ...
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IDF: Rocket that hit Beersheba school made in
China Home Front Command's deputy chief says rocket fired...
at Negev city can cause much greater damage than the Qassam; adds that all events with 100 or more guests will be cancelled due to attacks Yael ...
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Chinese Democracy Came Out Before Chinese Democracy
Firedoglake —
Charter 08 is a document signed by prominent civilian leaders in China calling for Democracy and the rule of law. It was issued on the 10th of December, in emulation of the Czechoslovakia's Charter 77. For all the jokes about Guns and Roses' most recent album, it seems that Chinese Democracy is going to be even more delayed, costly, and anticipated, than Chinese Democracy.
What did it call for? Amending the Chinese Constitution for Separation of Powers, Democratizing the lawmaking process, Independence of the judiciary, Public Institutions ...
Journalism with "Newsweek" Characteristics
Weekly Standard Blog —
... expressions of opposition to the state get you thrown in jail. Granted, many Chinese are proud of their achievements as a nation over the last three decades and look forward to the day when China is truly a great power. But no doubt there are just as many Chinese, and certainly plenty of Uighurs, Tibetans, and others living under Chinese domination, who think that the Chinese "system" does not adequately respect the rights of man. Two thousand such people, in fact, recently signed Charter 08, calling for political and civil reform in China. ...
Charter 08: Chinese Activists’ Call For Reform
Wonk Room —
... Almost twenty years after the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent tanks into Tiananmen Square, a national Chinese human rights movement has taken shape again in the form of a statement called Charter 08. Released by a small group of Chinese intellectuals, lawyers, and dissidents on the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights last December, Charter 08 calls for greater freedoms, guarantees of basic human rights for the Chinese people, and an end to autocratic rule. Over 8,100 Chinese citizens, including students, ...
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