Story Archive
2018-08-15
The abbot of Longquan Temple in Beijing steps down after allegations of repeated sexual assaults and harassment of his female followers.
2018-08-15
The move comes amid an ongoing row over freedom of expression and political calls for independence in the former British colony of Hong Kong.
2018-08-14
Sun Wenguang says an online post, including photograph, claiming the couple went on vacation was 'fake.'
2018-08-14
The Hong Kong government calls Chan Ho-tin's speech to the Foreign Correspondents' Club ‘inappropriate and unacceptable.’
2018-08-14
Ge Jueping is awaiting trial for "subversion" after supporting a victim of forced evictions in Suzhou.
2018-08-13
Shen Mengyu, a university graduate who took a job on the shop floor to support a unionization campaign, is missing.
2018-08-13
Ji Xiaolong had called on people to respond to President Xi Jinping's 'toilet revolution' with anti-Communist Party graffiti.
2018-08-10
The leaders' summer retreat paves the way for policy and personnel changes at a formal meeting of the ruling Chinese Communist Party later in the year.
2018-08-10
Veteran rights activist Wei Xiaobing said police forced his garment factory to close, citing ‘fire safety’ issues.
2018-08-09
Tsinghua University researcher David Missal is told he has until Aug. 12 to get out, after police cancel his student visa.
2018-08-09
Hua Yong had supported a video protest by Dong Yaoqiong, now incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital for splashing ink on a post of the Chinese president.
2018-08-08
Li Yuhan suffers in detention during a heat-wave, as her case is transferred to the state prosecution service.
2018-08-08
In Shaanxi, parents protest out-of-date vaccines, while prosecutors in Shanxi file a lawsuit against local health officials.
2018-08-07
The conservative American Enterprise Institute says the administration must step up its efforts on security, economy, and governance in the region.
2018-08-07
Campaigners take the bold step of detailing their children's suffering, and providing their personal details for the authorities to contact them.
2018-08-07
Liu Feiyue stands trial at the Suizhou Intermediate People's Court in central Hubei province on subversion charges.
2018-08-06
A former Hong Kong chief executive warns the Foreign Correspondents' Club over its government-owned premises.
2018-08-06
Ai Weiwei says the demolition came without warning two weeks before he was due to leave the premises, and that many of his works were still inside.
2018-08-03
Commentators say intellectuals will now be targeted for 'brainwashing' in compulsory study sessions across the country.
2018-08-03
Sun Wenguang is being held incommunicado under ‘residential surveillance’ at a Shandong hill resort along with his wife, friends say.
2018-08-02
Rights activists criticize the move as being a departure from the company's former principles.
2018-08-02
Rights activist and political refugee Xiang Li says agents of the Chinese state are targeting asylum-seekers in Thailand.
2018-08-01
Wives of Detained Chinese Lawyers welcome a meeting with UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt during his recent trip to China.
2018-08-01
Dong Yaoqiong's father is detained as he tries to visit his daughter, who remains under close guard at a psychiatric institution.
2018-08-01
Critical voices from within the ruling Chinese Communist Party establishment have grown louder in the wake of the trade war with the United States.
2018-07-31
The authorities are stepping up pressure on Dong Yaoqiong's family, preventing them from speaking out on their daughter's behalf.
2018-07-31
As the brand new ministry of veterans' affairs promises them more money, campaigners say some local governments evade paying former soldiers anything at all.
2018-07-30
The parents say they want protection for any children disabled or made sick by substandard vaccines to be enshrined in law.
2018-07-30
The campaigners themselves are also held after helping workers set up a trade union to protest unfair treatment by their employer.
2018-07-27
Xu Lin's trial in Guangzhou takes place amid tight security, with supporters detained or turned away by police outside the building.
