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They use pepper spray to clear the defiant demonstrators from a main road next to the city's government headquarters.

Occupy Central supporters force police to retreat amid clashes as they rebuild cleared barricades.

Villagers in Shantou say they have still had no official response on the sell-off of their valuable farmland for development.

One woman is injured and a man detained after police clash with islanders staging a sit-in in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang.

Police fire pepper spray as protesters say the government must listen to the people.

Villagers say a local Chinese official rigged ballots and sold off their land in secret deals.

Hundreds protest in a southern Chinese town as tensions ease in nearby Wukan.

Thousands take to the streets in anger that the government didn't inform them about plans for an electrical substation in their neighborhood.

Hunan-based Christian Tu Yan denies membership of a banned church, as her family say police want to make an example of her.

Authorities are burning crosses and shutting down Protestant churches across the province as a campaign to make religion more "Chinese" gathers pace.

They deny being members of the Three Grades of Servant church, the focus of a crackdown on Christians in the province.

Jiangsu petitioner Luo Mingfeng is being held in an unknown location after staging several protests in recent days over the alleged actions of a People's ...

The elderly man opposed a sell-off of valuable land by an outgoing village leader.

Villagers in southern China hold a memorial service for an activist leader who died in police custody.

Chen Yunfei was detained in 2015 after he visited the grave of a Tiananmen Square massacre victim.

Li Wenzu, wife of 'disappeared' human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, is back home under surveillance after attempting a march to highlight her husband's plight.

They slam China’s rights record while the president talks up foreign investment.

Anti-Beijing chants can be heard as the two leaders speak to reporters at the White House.

Hundreds of high-school students ditch class for a day to join the pro-democracy campaign.

China's leader will be haunted by protests during his four-day state visit to the U.S.

But a swift crackdown underlines Beijing's anxiety amid rising pro-democracy protests in the Middle East.

Official media are relieved after a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while protesters describe a huge operation to prevent public protest.

An online campaign calling for protests triggers heavy police presence in Chinese cities.

Chinese citizens are angry that government officials do not respond to their grievances.

Ethnic Mongolian students march on Chinese government buildings demanding equal treatment.

Thousands in northern China march to government buildings.

Tensions simmer as the region prepares for further ethnic protests.

The city's legislature is forced to abandon a debate on allowing the rendition of alleged suspects to mainland China.

Protesters are demanding the total withdrawal of a suspended extradition law, the release of those arrested, and fully democratic elections.

Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt says treaty governing handover of city is binding for 50 years as Beijing rejects 'foreign interference.'