Story Archive
2016-06-30
Police issue an arrest warrant for anti-eviction activist Jin Zhongqi who had complained about intrusive surveillance by state security police.
2016-06-30
No reason is given, but lawyers and activists say the court likely feared being surrounded by diplomats and reporters.
2016-06-29
A prominent activist said overseas groups often overlook rights violations that happen to the most vulnerable.
2016-06-29
More than 1,000 people gather outside the city's municipal complaints department, with some escorted to a detention center in buses, witnesses say.
2016-06-28
Subversion charges against Sichuan-based Chen Yunfei are dropped, but he will stand trial on public order charges instead.
2016-06-28
Zhu Tiezhi is found hanged after warning the ruling party over growing factional strife.
2016-06-27
Rights activists are also protesting the continued disappearance of a dissident's wife, amid fears for her life.
2016-06-27
Media commentators say those who want real information in China have long since stopped using homegrown search engines like Baidu.
2016-06-27
Tens of thousands take to the streets in mass protests over a planned waste incinerator and a pesticide plant.
2016-06-24
Huang Wenxun pleads not guilty to 'incitement to subvert state power' after joining press freedom protests.
2016-06-24
Beijing, which has spoken out about 'Western' notions of democracy, says it respects the choice of the British people.
2016-06-23
Local people fear police may use force if foreign journalists leave as planned.
2016-06-23
Huang Yan says she fears for her life if she undergoes cancer surgery as offered by a police-run hospital.
2016-06-23
Hong Kong campaigners say Taishan holds three times the radioactive material of Fukushima.
2016-06-22
Zhao Suli, wife of democracy activist Qin Yongmin, hasn't been seen since the couple were separated in March 2015.
2016-06-22
China has moved to ban news and social media content about ongoing protests in Wukan village in Guangdong province.
2016-06-21
First visitor to Guo Feixiong since May 9 says his client has lost weight and is weak, but does not intend to break his fast.
2016-06-21
Former party secretary Lin Zuluan appears in an officially produced video, 'confessing' to bribery.
2016-06-21
Lu Yuyu had compiled detailed records of protests around the country as people tried to defend their rights, his friends say.
2016-06-20
Lam stands by his account of his months-long interrogation over the same of 'banned books' despite counterclaims in Chinese media.
2016-06-20
Villagers in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong clash with police over lost farmland and the detention of their leader.
2016-06-20
The deputy chief of Beijing's media regulator says that some programs mock government policies, highlight social problems, and spread 'extreme views.'
2016-06-18
Protesters are angry over the blurring of law enforcement boundaries after five Hong Kong residents were detained by Chinese police for 'breaking Chinese law.'
2016-06-17
Grace Geng, daughter of prominent rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, speaks about the effect his persecution had on his family.
2016-06-17
Two members of a banned opposition party are found guilty of 'incitement to subvert state power' after writing articles and attending gatherings.
2016-06-16
People with grievances against the local government are held in police stations and government offices after being forced to board a bus.
2016-06-16
Lam Wing-kei is the first of the five Causeway Books employees to defy Chinese police.
2016-06-16
Rights activists hit out at the prison's treatment of the activist and his relatives.
2016-06-15
Lam Wing-kei follows a pattern similar to that of his colleagues who returned to China soon after asking that their missing persons files be closed.
2016-06-15
Refugee Song Zhiyu is released to give him time to complete a resettlement application with the United Nations.
