Chinese activist filmmaker Chen Pinlin has been sentenced to 3½ years in prison in Shanghai for producing a documentary about China's nationwide protests against COVID-19 lockdowns in late 2022. Observers told VOA that Chen was heavily punished because the CCP has been trying to erase from the public memory the protests against its handling of the pandemic.
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Chen Pinlin, 33, was sentenced to 3½ years in prison.

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A new blow to press freedom in China. Chinese filmmaker Chen Pinlin was sentenced on Monday by a Shanghai court to three and a half years in prison for making a documentary about the protests of the blank leaflets that shook the country in late 2022 to demand an end to the hard politics against the covid pandemic. The spark of citizen rage, which had its epicenter in China’s financial megalopolis, where thousands of people went out to the street…

Un nuevo golpe a la libertad de prensa en China. El cineasta chino Chen Pinlin fue sentenciado el lunes por un tribunal de Shanghái a tres años y medio de prisión por realizar un documental sobre las protestas de los folios en blanco que sacudieron el país a finales de 2022 para reclamar el fin de las férreas políticas contra la pandemia de covid. El chispazo de furia ciudadana, que tuvo su epicentro en la megalópolis financiera de China, donde …

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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) –     A Chinese director who made a film about the 2022 “white paper” demonstrations against China’s COVID restrictions was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Shanghai court this week, his former lawyer said. In the protests, people held up blank, white sheets of paper as a symbol of defiance against government efforts to censor criticism of the zero-COVID policy. The nationwide protests were the …

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The Chinese filmmaker Chen has been imprisoned for making a documentary film. In it, he addressed the protests against the Corona lockdown - the largest demonstrations in China in decades. By B. Eyssel.[more]]]>

Der chinesische Filmemacher Chen muss in Haft, weil er einen Dokumentarfilm gedreht hat. Er thematisierte darin die Proteste gegen den Corona-Lockdown - die größten Demonstrationen in China seit Jahrzehnten. Von B. Eyssel.[mehr]]]>

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BEIJING — A Chinese director who made a film about the 2022 "white paper" demonstrations against China's Covid restrictions was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Shanghai court this week, his former lawyer said. In the protests, people held up blank, white sheets of paper as a symbol of defiance against government efforts to censor...

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China Covid protest filmmaker sentenced to prison, former lawyer says

BEIJING: A Chinese director who made a film about the 2022 “white paper” demonstrations against China’s Covid restrictions was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Shanghai court this week, his former lawyer said.
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On Monday (January 6), Chen Pinlin, the director of the "White Paper Movement" documentary "Urumqi Middle Road", was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by the Shanghai Baoshan Court on the charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" after a three-hour closed-door trial. Observers pointed out that Chen Pinlin was sentenced to a heavy sentence for revealing the truth of the "White Paper Movement" and "slapping" the CCP in the fac…

星期一(1月6日)，“白纸运动”纪录片《乌鲁木齐中路》的导演陈品霖在经过三小时的闭门审讯后，被上海宝山法院以“寻衅滋事”的罪名一审当庭宣判三年半。观察人士指出，陈品霖因揭示“白纸运动”的真相，“打脸”中共被重判。同时他的判刑凸显中共对言论自由的进一步践踏。

他因“打脸”中共被重判 白纸运动纪录片导演陈品霖其人其事

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He was sentenced to a heavy sentence for "slapping the face" of the CCP. Chen Pinlin, the director of the White Paper Movement documentary, and his life story

Chen Pinlin's documentary tells about the “White Paper” protest movement, which first arose in response to restrictions imposed as part of the COVID-19 policy. During their actions, demonstrators held blank sheets of paper to denounce the censorship and abuses of the regime.

Документальна стрічка Чень Пінліна розповідає про протестний рух «Біла книга», який спершу виник у відповідь на обмеження, запроваджені в межах політики боротьби з COVID-19. Під час своїх акцій демонстранти тримали чисті аркуші паперу, щоб засудити цензуру та зловживання режиму.

У Китаї режисера-документаліста засудили до трьох з половиною років ув'язнення за висвітлення протестів проти цензури

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Documentary filmmaker sentenced to three and a half years in prison in China for covering anti-censorship protests

A new blow to press freedom in China. Chinese filmmaker Chen Pinlin was sentenced on Monday by a Shanghai court to three and a half years in prison for making a documentary about the blank page protests that shook the country at the end of 2022 to demand an end to the harsh policies against the covid pandemic. The spark of citizen fury, which had its epicenter in the financial megalopolis of China, where thousands of people took to the streets s…

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