Story Archive
2019-10-24
Bonnie Leung says the people of Hong Kong aren't afraid to face danger in pursuit of democracy, and calls for international support.
2019-10-11
Huang Chun, a retired professor from the Guizhou Nationalities University, describes being held in a facility that issued no official documents.
2019-10-04
A student leader and anti-extradition activist talks about the role of Hong Kong women in the four-month-old protest movement.
2019-09-27
Wang Shuping refused until the last to bow to pressure from the Chinese state security police, publishing a statement of defiance in the last weeks of her life.
2019-06-28
Wang Quanzhang's memory and personality appear to have been profoundly affected following years of incommunicado detention, his wife says.
2019-04-15
Activist Rushan Abbas urges Uyghur-Americans to pressure Washington to sanction Beijing over abuses in Xinjiang.
2019-03-15
Taiwan author Chi Pang-yuan speaks about infusing the next generation with a love of world literature.
2019-02-22
Rights activist and petitioner Li Yufeng vows to continue her rights activism after serving a four-year jail term for speaking up.
2019-02-17
Lee Ching-yu talks to journalists during a trip to the U.S., where she attends the State of the Union address.
2019-01-30
A Uyghur woman details her detention in a political ‘re-education camp’ for visiting her husband’s home country of Pakistan.
2018-12-07
Tsewang Dolma, an executive member of the Tibetan Youth Congress, talks about the "middle way" of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and working for Tibetan independence from exile.
2018-11-02
China's internet censors silence an outspoken, liberal professor who called for constitutional government and linked patriotism to freedom and democracy.
2018-10-26
Leta Hong Fincher, author of 'Betraying Big Brother,' talks to RFA's Mandarin Service about China's nascent feminist movement.
2018-08-24
The US-based wife of disappeared rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng says his family still don't know where he is, one year after his most recent 'disappearance.'
2018-08-09
Prominent feminist Xiong Jing talks about the spread of the #MeToo campaign among Chinese women.
2018-04-10
Munzire, wife of missing Uyghur student Elyasjan Rahman, discusses his detention in Egypt and its effect on her family.
2018-04-05
Li Wenzu, wife of 'disappeared' rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, walks from Beijing to Tianjin 'in search' of her husband.
2018-01-25
Li Wenzu, wife of disappeared human rights attorney Wang Quanzhang, says the family will continue to press for him to see a lawyer, in
spite of zero response from the authorities so far.
2017-12-29
The wife of a jailed Chinese dissident speaks to RFA for the first time since her 'covert' escape from threats and intimidation back home.
2017-11-03
U.S.-based women's rights activist Zhang Qing talks about the stark lack of female faces at the highest level of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
2017-10-12
The daughter of a long-term petitioner says her father now faces jail over a long-running campaign for justice for a murdered son.
2017-10-03
The wife of a Uyghur student who went missing in Egypt says China may have ordered his deportation.
2017-09-13
Ding Zilin is being kept in for observation after a regular check-up for a longstanding condition.
2017-06-22
Twenty years after the Hong Kong handover, a former colonial second-in-command shares her outlook for the future of the city.
2017-05-18
The wives of detained lawyers and activists say they have no way of finding out how their husbands are, and yet must remain the focal point for attempts to secure their release.
2017-05-12
Jin Bianling, the rights lawyer's U.S.-based wife, calls for a probe into the allegations and the release of Jiang's father and sister.
2017-05-10
Xie Yang's wife Chen Guiqiu talks to RFA about her fears for her husband and her hopes for a new future with the couple's children.
2017-04-28
Li Aijie, wife of jailed Xinjiang rights activist Zhang Haitao, describes a recent visit to her husband in a remote Xinjiang jail.
2017-04-19
Ethnic Mongolian women speak out about the illegal takeover of vast tracts of fragile grassland and forest ecosystems by Chinese companies with the collusion of local officials.
2017-04-05
China's 'stability maintenance' regime is particularly tough on women seeking redress from state.
