Story Archive
2017-09-07
Family still has little information about the once celebrated human rights lawyer.
2017-09-07
Xie Yanyi calls on President Xi Jinping and other leaders to release all political prisoners and 'move past dictatorship towards civilization.'
2017-09-07
Deng Jiewei receives a nine-month jail term in a case that lawyers say makes him a political prisoner.
2017-09-06
Students post more banners calling for independence for the city after authorities at one university remove them from campus.
2017-09-06
Guangdong-based activist Zhuo Yuzhen has been handed over to police in Jiangmen city, who detained more than 10 participants in July.
2017-09-05
Huang Xiaomin will be prosecuted for 'picking quarrels and stirring up trouble' after he supported a call for direct elections for the ruling Chinese Communist Party's supreme leader.
2017-09-05
China says it is a victim and shouldn't be held responsible for policing North Korea, while banning online searches linked to the nuclear crisis.
2017-09-04
Peng Heping, a friend of poet Langzi who helped publish his last anthology, is believed detained on the same charges linked to a planned anthology in Liu's honor.
2017-09-04
Residents of northeastern China report a massive tremor that shook "bowls and chopsticks off the table" as officials say contingency plans are in place.
2017-09-01
Attendees at an enforced 'symposium' receive no reply to queries about 'disappeared' colleagues, while being warned not to speak to foreign media about their cases.
2017-09-01
In mainland China, teachers also hit out at a history syllabus designed to make students revere the ruling Chinese Communist Party.