Story Archive
2017-01-31
Rules banning people from accessing telecommunications services without a formal identification process come into effect this week.
2017-01-31
Xiao Jianhua leaves the city for an unknown location, sparking fears he has been detained by Chinese police.
2017-01-30
'Interceptors' hired by local governments pack people onto buses bound for an unofficial detention center after they tried to visit President Xi Jinping.
2017-01-27
Li Naiqiu said the attack has left her in danger of losing her baby, while other petitioners said her treatment was 'shocking.'
2017-01-27
Crowds gather outside the central government complaints department in Beijing on the last day of the old year.
2017-01-27
Officials of the ruling Chinese Communist Party are told to 'explain the facts' when confronted with 'negative energy' online.
2017-01-27
Song Zhiyu was imprisoned in China for speaking out for the Falun Gong movement.
2017-01-26
A strident article in praise of China's latest intercontinental nuclear missile disappears from state media news sites.
2017-01-26
Foreign diplomats in Beijing pay Chinese New Year visits to beleaguered activists facing eviction in the city.
2017-01-25
The Defense Daily accuses Cantopop star Hins Cheung of supporting independence for his home city, though he has denied it.
2017-01-25
The activists unfurled a banner in support of Xie Yang, who has filed a formal complaint over his treatment in a Changsha detention center.
2017-01-24
Xie Yang was subjected to excruciating pain, beatings, and degrading treatment at the hands of state security police, his lawyers say.
2017-01-24
Nine residents of Wukan villagers sentenced on public order charges following a standoff with armed police have already begun serving their jail terms.
2017-01-23
Mao Yushi is a reform-minded economist who has long been critical of late supreme leader Mao Zedong and the political turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.
2017-01-23
Internet connection service providers must now register with the authorities, with a 'clean-up' operation beginning immediately.