Tan Zuoren jailed over Tiananmen Square article but supporters say detention owing to research into death of pupils in quakeA Chinese activist who investigated the deaths of children in schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake was today jailed for... ...full story at Observer
from Observer on Tue, Feb 09 2010
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| 09 Jun 08 |
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China Earthquake Death Traps: Tofu Building »
YouTube video Parents are asking why so many schools collapsed in China's earthquake.
Hundreds of schools collapsed in the earthquake, trapping thousands of children in the rubble. It's unimaginable for a parent to lose a child under any circumstances. But as Kyung... |
| 17 Apr 09 |
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Tan Zuoren, the "good man of Sichuan" » Danwei China Media Project features an article by Ai Xiaoming on Tan Zuoren, the grass-roots earthquake investigator who was detained by police late last month. He is not the kind of person who, when they consider expressing themselves freely, plays a game of... |
| 14 Dec 09 |
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Video: Tan Zuoren's Sichuan Earthquake Investigation » Danwei Documentary filmmaker Ai Xiaoming has posted a video (in Chinese) about activist Tan Zuoren’s investigation into schools that collapsed during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Tan has since been imprisoned and charged with subversion. ... |
| 21 Aug 09 |
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How can speech threaten state security? » Danwei China Digital Times translates a defense plea entered by lawyers for Tan Zuoren, an activist now on trial in Chengdu in connection with an investigation into schools that collapsed in the earthquake, as well as activities for the 20th anniversary of June... |
| 09 Feb 10 |
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Tan Zuoren sentenced for report into earthquake » Danwei Reuters reports (via The New York Times): A Chinese activist who sought to document shoddy construction that he contended had contributed to deaths in China’s devastating 2008 earthquake has been sentenced to five years in prison for subversion, h... |
| 13 May 08 |
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The great Sichuan earthquake: What we know so far (and a second earthquake this morning) » Shanghaiist Scene of devastation at a school in Dujiangyan (都江堰) which collapsed from the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China * Over 10,000 feared dead in biggest earthquake in China for 30 years * Earthquake measured at 7.9 on the Richter scale, epicentre... |
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