Story Archive
2017-05-31
Authorities are moving to round up dissidents who remain at large ahead of the politically sensitive anniversary on June 4.
2017-05-31
Dong Qi isn't the first to be detained over accusations of support for the wanted Chinese billionaire.
2017-05-30
The move is in stark contrast to last week's ruling by a constitutional court in democratic Taiwan that same-sex marriages must be allowed.
2017-05-30
The move forms part of a nationwide 'stability maintenance' operation aimed at silencing all forms of public dissent.
2017-05-29
Repeated delays to the sentencing of Liu Shaoming for subversion may be because he refuses to make a "confession of his crimes," activists say.
2017-05-29
Activists hope the anniversary of the June 4 military crackdown will send a strong message to Beijing about the erosion of the city's traditional freedoms.
2017-05-26
Taiwan criticizes vague charges and lack of evidence amid concerns after a string of forced confessions and torture of recent high-profile detainees in China.
2017-05-26
Protesters say new housing provided as part of a relocation package agreed upon after their evictions is cracking and falling apart.
2017-05-25
Minority Hui Muslim residents of Tianjin's Tianmu village have waged a long campaign for the removal of local officials amid a bitter land dispute.
2017-05-25
The founders of Occupy Central and six other key figures in the movement will face various public order charges linked to the campaign for full democracy.
2017-05-24
The democratic island's constitutional court says current laws restricting marriage to heterosexuals violate the rights of gay citizens.
2017-05-24
Churches that do not comply are subjected to raids, or are shut down for 'health and safety' reasons, church members say.
2017-05-24
Fellow asylum-seeker Dong Guangping is being denied money to buy additional food and supplies in prison, and has been given a government-appointed lawyer.
2017-05-23
Yang Shuping used air quality as a metaphor to hit out at choking controls on freedom of speech back home in China.
2017-05-23
Local people are incensed at the behavior of village officials, saying they have sold off land and refuse to account for money missing from village coffers.
2017-05-23
Officials and state-run media refuse to verify a recent report detailing the decimation of the CIA's China networks in The New York Times, but don't deny it either.
2017-05-22
Lawyers and relatives of several prisoners of conscience are continuing to report beatings and mistreatment of clients and loved ones.
2017-05-19
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden hits out at Hong Kong officials, saying 'someone wants to make these families disappear.'
2017-05-19
Ni Yulan and her husband say they are continually being targeted for covert forms of police harassment, including serial evictions on various pretexts.
2017-05-19
President Rodrigo Duterte reveals threats amid mounting criticism that he has gone soft on Beijing.
2017-05-19
Zhang Leilei has been told to leave the city as police crack down on activists ahead of a politically sensitive anniversary and the Fortune Global Forum later in the year.
2017-05-18
The law seems to be aimed at legitimizing existing activities by the state security police, commentators say.
2017-05-17
Chen Jiangang says police have put pressure on a Beijing primary school not to admit his son after he made public allegations of the torture of his client and fellow lawyer Xie Yang.
2017-05-16
Leung Chun-ying says he 'has the right' to seek to influence the scope of a probe into his financial conduct via a pro-Beijing lawmaker charged with investigating him.
2017-05-16
More than 1,000 drivers are affected by new regulations requiring them to sign over ownership of their private vehicles to 'companies' instead.
2017-05-15
Businesses are being told to shut down during President Xi's 'Belt and Road' forum, which has been ringed with police security checkpoints.
2017-05-15
Many organizations in China had switched off protective 'firewalls,' leaving their systems directly exposed to the WannaCry attack, experts say.
2017-05-12
Parents whose children died in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake are warned off protests amid a nationwide security crackdown.
2017-05-11
Thousands of local residents had blockaded a chemical factory near their homes in anger over a recent leak of 'irritating' gas.
2017-05-11
The move comes amid suspicions that the government is moving to minimise all sign of public opposition ahead of a potential visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
