Ted Lipien, the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) co-founder, took issue with The Los Angeles Times editorial, Stop spamming Cuba, which was highly critical of the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) attempts to send Radio and TV Marti news as text messages to cell phone users in Cuba. The BBG devised the project to […]
Tag: human rights
CUSIB's Jing Zhang shares first-hand accounts of blocked access to Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) Advisory Board Member Jing Zhang has shared with Free Media Online (FreeMediaOnline.org) the first-hand accounts and photos she received from Women’s Rights in China (WRIC) volunteers who wanted to meet the blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng to express their support. On October 14, 2011, five disability activists […]
Putin goes after Radio Svoboda on Russian TV
In a prime-time interview aired on October 17 with the heads of Russia’s three largest television stations, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that during the Cold War, his former employer — the KGB — viewed Radio Svoboda as a branch of the CIA engaged in spying in the former Soviet Union. RFE/RL analyst Charles […]
U.S. commission documents major crackdown on Internet and press freedom in China
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), created by Congress in October 2000 with the legislative mandate to monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China, submitted its annual report to the President and the Congress, in which it documents a major crackdown by the Chinese authorities on the Internet and […]
CUSIB welcomes human rights advocate Harry Wu as new Advisory Board member
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) welcomes Harry Wu, a distinguished human rights advocate, as a new member of its Advisory Board and looks forward to using his expertise to advance the cause of media freedom. Harry Wu knows first-hand the atrocious conditions of the Laogai in China. In 1960, he was imprisoned at […]
Congressional Hearing on Detention of Legal Advocate Chen Guangcheng
Representative Christopher Smith, Chairman and Senator Sherrod Brown, Cochairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China announce a hearing on “Examination into the Abuse and Extralegal Detention of Legal Advocate Chen Guangcheng and His Family” Tuesday, November 1, 2011 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 2118 Rayburn House Office Building The plight of Chen Guangcheng and his […]
Former Chinese political prisoner says VOA must not retreat from China
VOA Cannot Retreat from China by Jing Zhang President Women’s Rights in China Reposted from the BBG Watch website. I remember an afternoon forty years ago. My father furiously slapped my uncle. The argument was behind closed doors and hushed. I couldn’t make out the reason. Later my sister told me that uncle listened to […]