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LINKS TO OTHER ACTIONS AND REPORTS

 

Falling Short - a CPJ report which documents China's failure to meet its press freedom pledges when the Olympics were awarded in 2001: http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2007/Falling_Short/China/index.html

 

Failing to Deliver: An Olympic-Year Report Card on Free Expression in China":
http://www.pen.org/chinareport

 

Article 19/Reporters Sans Frontiers joint action 'End the Gagging of Olympic athletes' : http://www.article19.org/advocacy/campaigns/olympics.html 
 

The Committee to Protect Journalists reports on the harassment of foreign journalists in the run-up to the Olympics: http://www.cpj.org/news/2008/asia/china30apr08na.html

 

Dancing in Shackles: a Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in China (2007) by Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD): http://crd-net.org/Article/Class9/Class11/200805/20080501034205_8531.html

 

How China Leads the World in Web Censorship: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,551110,00.html


Chip Rolley's 'Stanzas Without Borders - the History of the PEN Poem Relay': http://www.penpoemrelay.org/0806-sydneypen-magazine-StanzaswithoutBorders.pdf

 

Violations of Olympics-related media freedom pledges continue (Human Rights Watch Report):

http://hrw.org/reports/2008/china0708

 

The Olympics Countdown: Broken Promises (Amnesty Internation Report):

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/chinese-authorities-broken-promises-threaten-olympic-legacy-20080728

 

A BBC article discussing Amnesty International's 'The Olympics Countdown: Broken Promises':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7530308.stm

 

A series of articles on China published by Index on Censorship in the lead up to the Olympic Games:

http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=474

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