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Nicholas Bequelin


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August 2008: '"The Olympics have reversed the clock," said Nicholas Bequelin, a Hong Kong-based specialist for Human Rights in China.'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103717.html

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Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Human Rights Watch (HRW) Organization Aug 2, 2008

Articles and Resources

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Apr 03, 2011 China Takes Dissident Artist Into Custody

QUOTE: Rights advocates say the detentions are an ominous sign that the Communist Party’s six-week crackdown on rights lawyers, bloggers and dissidents is spreading to the upper reaches of Chinese society… “It’s an attempt to redefine the limits of what kind of criticism is tolerable,” he said. “The government is moving the goalposts and a lot of people are finding themselves targeted.”

 New York Times
Aug 02, 2008 Defiant Chinese Harassed, Jailed Before Olympics: Defiant Chinese Harassed, Jailed Before Olympics

QUOTE: The Olympic Games have become the occasion for a broad crackdown against dissidents, gadflies and malcontents this summer. Although human rights activists say they have no accurate estimate of how many people have been imprisoned, they believe the figure to be in the thousands.

 Washington Post