Story Archive
2017-12-18
Meanwhile, an France-based Chinese artist and his French wife are believed detained after exhibiting a painting in Shenzhen referencing late political prisoner Liu Xiaobo.
2017-12-15
Migrant workers in Shaanxi province fear that an official policy of getting rid of low-income groups may be spreading across the country from Beijing.
2017-12-15
A heartbreaking note penned by the widow of China's Nobel peace prize winner gives a window into her desperate state of mind.
2017-12-15
Pro-democracy lawmakers, hit by the loss of six seats in recent months, will now be less able to monitor and question the workings of the administration, critics say.
2017-12-14
A letter calling on the city's party chief to resign over the mass eviction of low-income migrants from elsewhere in China is quickly expunged from social media sites.
2017-12-14
The Committee to Protect Journalists says many jailed journalists have been given 'a slow death sentence' through lack of adequate medical care.
2017-12-13
Authorities drop the more serious charge of 'leaking state secrets' but with try the activist for 'incitement to subvert state power.'
2017-12-13
The highly choreographed event strikes a moderate tone that activists say isn't echoed among the wider population.
2017-12-12
Retired university professor Wang Fandi is cremated following a funeral packed with his former students and family members of those killed or maimed in 1989.
2017-12-12
Luo Lanqing, a 'big tweeter' with a social media following of 190,000, is detained after calling out official corruption and environmental pollution.
2017-12-11
Hua Yong had spent several weeks documenting the city-wide mass eviction of out-of-town migrants from Beijing.
2017-12-11
The Human Rights Day protest comes after thousands of migrant laborers and small traders are forced from their homes in the capital in the name of fire safety.
2017-12-08
Beijing's narrow focus on basic economic rights means those less powerful are unable to speak out for themselves, activists say.
2017-12-08
Feng Xiuqin's death was the result of unbearable emotional trauma and sleep-deprivation after the authorities detained her husband, her family say.
2017-12-08
Chinese cybersecurity police tell activist Zhang Guanghong that they obtained evidence against him using a security 'backdoor.'
