2010's last few news from China...

"BEIJING -- A Chinese journalist died Tuesday from injuries sustained in a gang beating that some say was linked to his investigative work, a colleague at his newspaper said"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/28/AR2010122800479.html


"A statement posted on the personal blog of convicted milk activist Zhao Lianhai says he is undergoing treatment at a hospital and wants to enjoy life as an ordinary citizen.
Zhao, 38, whose three-year-old child was sickened by melamine-tainted milk powder, was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment on November 10 for inciting social disorder. He decided not to appeal, and instead applied for medical parole."

http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-12/606541.html


"BEIJING (AP) — China’s officially atheist government wants to build a Christian church in the hometown of Confucius to help foster a relationship between an ancient philosophy and the country’s fastest-growing religion. But suddenly, it’s not going so smoothly.
Confucian groups and 10 well-known scholars are demanding that the Gothic-style church not be built in Qufu, saying its size threatens to overshadow the world’s most famous Confucian temple and represents a foreign invasion of a sacred place."

http://asiancorrespondent.com/44578/church-plan-in-hometown-of-confucius-draws-protest/


"On Dec. 23, the United Nations International Convention for the Protection of All Persons From Forced Disappearance came into force. China has declined to accede to this convention. My experience that same day is just one of many examples of how the authorities continue to falsely imprison Chinese citizens.
That evening, I was in the Xizhimen area of Beijing chatting with my colleagues Piao Xiang, Xu Zhiyong and Zhang Yongpan. Ms. Piao had been disappeared after she and I went to Dandong on Oct. 7 to argue the court case of Leng Guoquan, a man framed by the police for drug trafficking; she had only been released on Dec. 20. Her abductors had been officers from the state security squad of the Public Security Bureau. I asked her to narrate the entire process of her disappearance in detail."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203731004576045152244293970.html