Skip to content Skip to navigation

Access to Information

China Sharpens Legal Weapons for Information Control
In a revision of the central pillar of China’s state secrets system – the Law on Guarding State Secrets 1 (State Secrets Law) – the Chinese government has tightened its control of the flow of information in the digital age.
April 29, 2010
HRIC Bulletin
Law of the People’s Republic of China on Guarding State Secrets (Revised Draft) (2009) Full Text and Explanation
[English Translation by Human Rights in China, July 2009. Translation of Articles 1-51 based on the English translation of the 1989 Law of the People’s Republic of China on Guarding State Secrets by the Supreme Court of the People’s Republic of China.] The ninth session of the Standing Committee of...
July 24, 2009
Press Work
Mixed Messages
Internet fever, state control and the hunger for free information
July 27, 2001
China Rights Forum
Straining at the leash
China’s journalists battle local interests and censorship to get the news out Packed full of murder and mayhem, gossip and sport, the Chinese media increasingly reflect an addiction to sensational news similar to that of media in more democratic parts of the world. But the virtual absence of real...
July 25, 2001
China Rights Forum
Alternative views
The following organizations from Hong Kong attended the CERD hearing to present a contrasting picture of the situation in the territory to that of the government. HONG KONG HUMAN RIGHTS MONITOR The Monitor, one of the territory’s major human rights groups, submitted an in-depth report to the CERD...
July 24, 2001
China Rights Forum
Compassionate determination
One woman’s struggle to help the victims of Henan’s HIV epidemic
April 22, 2001
China Rights Forum
Tiannanmen & the Chinese Antigone
The leaked documents published in January 2001 as The Tiananmen Papers comprise a set of highly-classified materials detailing the deliberations of China’s key decision-makers during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and the evolution of those events. Jeremy Paltiel examines what the documents...
January 26, 2001
China Rights Forum
A strange love affair
Chinese authorities embrace the Unification Church’s teaching on sexuality
October 27, 2000
China Rights Forum

Pages

Subscribe to Access to Information