Story Archive
2018-12-31
Rights groups highlight incommunicado detention, the risk of torture, and the mass incarceration of Muslims in camps as areas of particular concern.
2018-12-31
More than 100 riot police descend on three independently run mosques in Yunnan's Weishan county, clashing with local Muslims who tried to resist.
2018-12-28
Students are targeted after protesting the 'reorganization' of their group by school authorities, a Maoist group says.
2018-12-28
Li Wenzu is prevented by security guards from approaching the Supreme People's Court in Beijing, where she had hoped to make a complaint.
2018-12-27
The foreign affairs minister for the democratic island of Taiwan talks about the island's independent status as 'a reality that can't be erased.'
2018-12-27
Sun Lin retweeted a number of social media posts judged by the authorities to be subversive, as well as shouting 'down with the Communist Party' at a local meeting.
2018-12-26
Wu Yuhua and her husband, Yang Chong, are close to getting asylum elsewhere, lawyer says.
2018-12-26
The detention of Qiu Zhanxuan comes amid a nationwide crackdown on left-wing students who supported a Shenzhen labor movement.
2018-12-26
Fellow activists say Wang Quanzhang refused to plead guilty.
2018-12-25
Wang Quanzhang's wife Li Wenzu is under surveillance at home, while state security police say the trial will be held 'in secret.'
2018-12-25
Activists mail Christmas cards to jailed dissidents in a bid to put pressure on the authorities for their release.
2018-12-25
A ban on the public celebration of Christmas is being implemented in some locations but not in others, Christians say.
2018-12-24
Qin Yongmin is planning to begin a hunger strike in protest at his treatment in Hubei's Guanghua Prison, a fellow activist says.
2018-12-24
Lee Ming-cheh is forced to labor 10 hours a day with no day off, while authorities have blocked his access to money sent by his wife.
2018-12-21
Zhou Yongjun faces yet another prison sentence after being arrested near the Vietnam border.