Image for article Asian Wall Street Journal: A Top-Down Coverup

On March 6, an explosion leveled a small primary school in the Chinese town of Fanglin, killing 38 children and four teachers. The surrounding county is a center of fireworks production, and many people who live in the town, including other pupils and parents, say that the children were forced to make fireworks in the classrooms. The students were literally sitting atop a powder keg, and the safety standards in Chinese fireworks factories are appalling. Parents had complained to higher ...

Image for article Wall Street Journal: School Explosion Further Illustrates China's Effort to Stifle Information

By Leslie Chang Staff Reporter Of The Wall Street Journal

March 13, 2001

BEIJING -- A deadly explosion at a remote school is resonating across the country -- revealing the difficulties the Chinese government faces as it tries to maintain its monopoly on truth in an age of instant information.

Image for article Photo Report: Inhuman Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners by the Police in Mainland China

Falun Gong practitioner Li Caifeng (pseudonym), female, 65 years old. She was illegally detained by Beijing police when she was appealing at Tiananmen Square on the New Year' Day of 2001. Later, she was sent to Miyun Detention Center in Beijing where she was tortured by electric shocks and burned with cigarette butts. The photo was taken 9 days after she was released and the wounds on her body could still clearly visible. It is hard to believe that an ...

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