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Whistleblower: UN Discloses Names of Chinese Dissidents to Beijing…

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A United Nations whistleblower has accused the organization’s human rights agency of endangering Chinese rights activists by disclosing their names to the Chinese regime. “The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) apparently continues to provide China with advance information on whether named human rights defenders plan to attend meetings (in Geneva),” Emma […]

Report Finds China Still Harvesting Organs from Political Dissidents, Minorities…

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Fewer than five years after China said it had finally ended the controversial practice of involuntary organ “donations”, research published this week found a disturbing pattern in the data on organ transplants that China submits to international regulators, according to the Guardian. The research found that the Chinese government may have been “systematically falsifying” its […]

The Threat(s) of Chinese Nationalism.

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The Great Firewall is probably the best-known feature of the complex censorship system in China. It’s how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censors what anyone in China can see on the internet. Everything from popular western websites like Wikipedia and YouTube, information about the Tiananmen Square Incident and the Dalai Lama, and most foreign films […]

I Used to Work for Google. I Am a Conscientious Objector…

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“We can forgive your politics and focus on your technical contributions as long as you don’t do something unforgivable, like speaking to the press.” This was the parting advice given to me during my exit interview from Google after spending a month internally arguing, resignation letter in hand, for the company to clarify its ethical […]

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