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Protesters defy police orders to stop demonstrations, saying they will continue until Lin Zuluan is released.

Demonstrations against Japanese claims over a disputed island chain reach new levels of violence in China.

Local people clash with riot police amid growing public anger over industrial pollution.

But China's leader-in-waiting denounces Japan's decision to buy disputed islands.

Beijing rebuffs international concern over the move, while rights activists say China is exporting its own brand of political censorship to the city.

Crowds continue to call for the resignation of chief executive C.Y. Leung over police use of force against protesters.

Chief executive Carrie Lam says the city must now prioritize China's national security concerns over calls for freedom of speech.

A few hundred protesters remain camped out in three key locations amid negotiations over talks with officials.

Dozens are held on their way to a land protest in southwestern China.

Chinese authorities turn down an application to hold protests backing political reforms.

But India looks set to strengthen trade ties with China during the Chinese premier's visit.

State department officials also call for charges against feminist five to be dropped.

A leading voice actor and translator is detained, and his mother issues a video plea for the Kazakh president to intervene with Beijing.

Local authorities are still powerful enough to order psychiatric treatment.

Chinese who complain about official wrongdoing face 'treatment' in mental hospitals.

China's psychiatric system locks up hundreds of thousands against their will, a new report by a rights group says.

A new book describes how some Chinese who complain about the government are mistreated in psychiatric settings, while the author calls for better regulation of ...

Authorities tell the defense team the lack of access to case files is due to "special" circumstances.

The sentence is thought to be linked to his publication of a critical book about the Chinese president.

Geng Xiaonan and her husband are in a Beijing detention center facing charges of running an 'illegal business operation.'

He Linxia was behind the publication of an expose of behind-the-scenes machinations by Mao Zedong later banned from public sale in China.

Germany-based Springer Nature blocks access to some 1,000 articles in two of its journals to users in mainland China.

A Chinese infrastructure project prompts relocations, and protests.

Officials blame escalating protests in the city on 'a few radicals' and hit out at Western support for the anti-extradition movement.

Internet service providers in Xi’an are being ordered to keep personal files on any social media account holder with more than 30,000 followers.

The government is 'blocking off a channel' for Chinese citizens to find news and ideas that it doesn't approve of.

Rifts are beginning to show between key figures in the administration of Leung Chun-ying ahead of elections for the next chief executive.

China draws on history to train a new generation of officials in loyalty to the Communist Party.

But critics say Beijing and Hong Kong officials are trying to force greater loyalty to the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

Civil rights observers say it is unclear why riot police pursued protesters who were already leaving the area they were trying to clear.