A clash has erupted between petitioners and local police in Chengdu after Chief Magistrate of Chengdu Intermediate People’s Court Niu Ming refused to see petitioners on a designated reception day after the Olympics.

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Non lontano dalle competizioni della vela, praticanti del Falun Gong torturati a morte
FDI – Nella provincia di Shandong, sede delle competizioni di vela delle Olimpiadi 2008, due praticanti del Falun Gong sono stati torturati a morte prima dei giochi. Il signor Zhong Zhenfu della città di Pingdu è morto il 20 luglio e la signora Liu Xiumei della città di Zhucheng è morta il 27 luglio, meno di due settimane prima della cerimonia di apertura. Lo riferiscono due rapporti ricevuti dal Falun Dafa Information Center.

Il CIO : La Cina si prodiga per i diversamente abili
Nei mesi scorsi la signora Meng Weina, fondatrice della Huiling (organizzazione non governativa per il servizio ai disabili mentali) scrisse indignata una lettera al Presidente del Comitato olimpico internazionale ,ed al Comitato olimpico internazionale dei disabili, per denunciare il comportamento gangsteristico dei dirigenti della “Federazione dei disabili cinesi”.

Months after widespread Tibetan protests against Chinese rule, hundreds of monks are detained in Qinghai.
KATHMANDU—Hundreds of Tibetan monks detained after widespread protests against Chinese rule earlier this year were deported from the Tibetan capital Lhasa to remote Qinghai province, where they remain in custody, according to Tibetan sources.

Monks from two major Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, Sera and Drepung, both in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), may have been targeted because they were seen as playing a leading role in the demonstrations, the sources said.

Soon after the end of the Olympic Games, the Chinese government has once again launched a massive crackdown backed by its military and security forces, using the recent attacks on Chinese military and government apparatus in the region during the Olympic Games as a pretext for their campaign.

Kathmandu, 28 August - Today over 120 Tibetan protesters were arrested on Hattisar road, close to the Consulate of the 'People's' Republic of China. Most of the protesters arrived in a hired bus, pulling out swathes of Tibetan flags as they walked towards the Consulate. However, the Nepalese police were already waiting.

About 200,000 public security officers and armed police have been mobilised in the restive Xinjiang region to ensure public safety during the celebrations for National Day on October 1, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said in a report yesterday.

Choi Chi-yuk
Aug 28, 2008

Kathmandu, August 28 - Tibetan activists plan to resume protest rallies in front of the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu tomorrow even though Nepal's new Maoist-led government is expected to treat demonstrators harshly.
Nepal's Tibetan residents, who number more than 15,000 and form the world's largest population of Tibetan refugees after that of India, protested regularly at the embassy during the run-up to the Beijing Olympics in spite of harsh police beatings and mass arrests.

The Beijing Olympics has come to an end, but will those rights advocates, dissidents and petitioners who are detained and placed under house arrest by the Communist regime be released while larger-scale arrests are in progress. On August 26, Shanghai rights activist Chang Xong-Fa expressed in an interview with an SOH reporter that the Communists will not free the detainees.

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Young author Sun Fuquan from Shenyang province was arrested on the eve of the Olympic Games by local police for allegedly inciting to subvert state power. He was illegally detained for twenty eight days and released only after his family paid five thousand Yuan. Sun suffered oppression after he published a song assessing the nineteen eighty nine pro-democracy rallies and also assisted retired servicemen to protect their rights. He says Shenyang police were motivated by large bonus before the Olympics to instigate mass arrest innocent citizens under the banner of Olympic security.

BEIJING (AP) — Security agents detained an elderly bishop of an underground Catholic church in northern China hours before the closing of the Olympic Games, a U.S.-based group said Monday.
Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo, 73, of Zhengding, a city in northern Hebei province, was taken by six government officials from his cathedral on Sunday morning, the Cardinal Kung Foundation said in a statement.

The independent foundation, which aims to promote the Roman Catholic Church in China, said it did not know where or why Jia was being detained.

Tibet’s most famous woman writer and blogger has been questioned by police for eight hours, accused of taking photographs on the street, after she returned home briefly to the capital, Lhasa.The detention of Woeser, who like many Tibetans goes by a single name, underscores the nervousness of the authorities in the Himalayan city, where Tibetans restive under Beijing rule rioted in the streets in March, killing 22 people and setting fire to hundreds of offices and businesses.Eight police arrived at the home of Woeser’s mother on Thursday and presented her with a summons to accompany them for qu