Literally....
"Chinese dissident in exile fears for relatives" by Chris Buckley | New York Times, April 25, 2013
HONG KONG — Chinese prosecutors on Wednesday ordered two relatives of a prominent human rights advocate who lives in exile in the United States to face questioning over allegations that they harbored a criminal, in what one family member considered to be retaliation against the activist’s stepped-up criticism of the Chinese government.
The activist, Chen Guangcheng, won international fame in 2012 by escaping from house arrest after being held for a year and a half in Dongshigu, in Shandong Province in eastern China. Although blind, he evaded guards and surveillance cameras and clambered over walls to escape.
How did he do that?
Related: MSM Monitor: Cutting Out the Chinese Crap
What a cock-and-bull CIA concoction! I hope you are seeing why I do not believe or want to read this stuff.
After his escape, Chen took refuge in the US Embassy in Beijing. He left after the Chinese government agreed to let him study at a university and to investigate his complaints that officials and their hired guards had brutally abused him and his family. Worried about reprisals, however, Chen changed his mind and asked to go to the United States; he is now studying in New York, accompanied by his wife and two children.
Translation: He's a CIA agent and asset, folks. It's obvious!
While Chen is safe abroad, he has said that Chinese officials and thugs have subjected his relatives in Shandong to retaliation and harassment, including recently throwing rocks and dead poultry at one brother’s home....
Chen Guangcheng testified before a House subcommittee on April 9.
And I'm only reading about it now? Not exactly "new"s, is it?
He said his relatives in China faced persecution, and he called on lawmakers to obtain and disclose details of the deal that the US and Chinese governments reached about his treatment.
Chen Guangcheng taught himself law and won nationwide attention through campaigns on behalf of farmers and disabled citizens. But officials turned on him after he took up complaints of thousands of women forcibly sterilized by family planning authorities.
In 2006, he was sentenced on charges he said were concocted to silence him.
Then he would have a lot in common with the current patsy in a Boston hospital bed.
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"Chinese court official dies in detention" Associated Press, April 24, 2013
BEIJING — A senior official at a city court in central China died under mysterious circumstances Tuesday, his body bruised after 11 days in the custody of antigraft investigators of the ruling Communist Party, his family said.
Jia Jiuxiang, who was vice president of the Sanmenxia City Intermediate People’s Court in Henan Province, is the second case in two weeks to surface of an official dying while being held in the party’s secret detention system, which is not regulated by law.
Oh, they have one, too, huh? And they actually put people who should be in there in there?
Jia’s relatives say they suspect he was tortured in detention.
(As an American citizen I must remain silent, for my government has been there, done that)
His brother-in-law, Zhou Qiang, said Jia was detained April 12 by the local party’s discipline inspection committee and turned up in a local hospital Monday night and died Tuesday morning after attempts to save him failed.
Jia’s wife, who was allowed to see the body, said his face had turned blue and his body was covered in bruises, Zhou said.
‘‘We think that in handling the case, the discipline inspection committee used cruel tactics against him,’’ Zhou said. He said that Jia, 49, had been in good health.
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"Japanese lawmakers inflame tensions with China" by Martin Fackler | NY Times Syndication, April 24, 2013
TOKYO — Tensions between Japan and its Asian neighbors rose Tuesday when a large group of Japanese lawmakers paid a symbolically charged visit to a Tokyo war shrine, while Chinese paramilitary ships and a flotilla of boats carrying Japanese nationalists appeared to converge on disputed islands.
We call it a PROVOCATION, but....
The group of 168 conservative lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo in what local news media described as the largest mass visit by Parliament members in recent memory.
The shrine of the indigenous Shinto religion honors Japan’s war dead, including several who were executed as war criminals after World War II. This has made Yasukuni, and the political leaders who visit it, a target of criticism by China and South Korea.
Well, there are war criminals, and then are war criminals, 'kay?
On Tuesday, the Japanese coast guard reported that eight Chinese patrol ships had entered waters near the islands, the largest number to appear at one time since the dispute flared up last summer.
The Chinese ships appeared at the same time as 10 boats carrying members of a Japanese fringe ultranationalist group also arrived off the islands.
Hey, you WWII vets are cool with the return of the Japanese empire, right?
WhatTF did we fight that one for again?
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Have you guys checked a map?
Also see: Chinese Charities Suck
Not run by a Jew like Feinberg, that's why.
Yeah, so much for coverage of the devastating earthquake in China.
Is ZNN still on the ground from Boston?
UPDATE: Chinese Flu Reads Like Contagion Script
Script coverage ended I guess.
More: WHO: China’s H7N9 Bird Flu Outbreak ‘Unusually Dangerous For Humans’
