Photo by Shreyans Bhansali, “Not Guarding Much” April 21, 2009 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Some links on the recent crackdown by the Chinese Communist Party on dissidents and human rights activists in China, including detained artist Ai Wei Wei:
Updated: April 15, 2011
The Economist: “China’s New Rulers: Princelings and the Goon State”
The Guardian: “Crackdown in China Spreads Terror Among Dissidents”
James Fallows in The Atlantic: “The Chinese Crackdown: Arrogance or Insecurity?”
Chris Buckley at Reuters: “China Crackdown Driven by Fears of a Broad Conspiracy”
The last interview of artist Ai Wei Wei before his detention – at The Guardian:
“Ai Wei Wei: ‘China in Many Ways is Just Like the Middle Ages’”
The New York Times: “An Artist takes on Role of China’s Conscience”
The Guardian: “China must be held to Account over ‘Disappeared’ Lawyers”