Story Archive
2014-08-29
Pro-democracy activists and rights groups hit back as Beijing steps up pressure on the universal suffrage campaign.
2014-08-28
The move comes ahead of a key announcement on the city's political future by Beijing.
2014-08-28
Protestant church-goers are holding 24-hour vigils to protect churches amid a demolition campaign.
2014-08-26
Hundreds protest outside government offices in a bid to receive subsistence payments after their fields are destroyed.
2014-08-26
There are more people enlisted to manipulate online opinion than active members of the military, reports say.
2014-08-25
The wife of one lawyer says police have tried to make her incriminate her husband.
2014-08-22
Nian Bin is released after appealing to four separate courts over a forced confession.
2014-08-21
Critics hit out at state-run broadcaster CCTV for subverting judicial processes.
2014-08-21
'Perverted Chili Pepper' says he fears he will be detained by the authorities over his hard-hitting political satire.
2014-08-20
Contracts leasing the grasslands still had 17 years to run, local residents say.
2014-08-20
The defense attorneys believe the judge and prosecutors are incapable of offering their clients a fair trial.
2014-08-19
The move is a tacit admission of a booming unofficial market in transplant organs.
2014-08-19
The authorities have been targeting the entertainment industry in a recent campaign.
2014-08-18
Pro-democracy campaigners say attendance figures were skewed to serve Beijing's agenda.
2014-08-18
Hada's wife Xinna says police have repeatedly threatened the family as they continue to speak out.
2014-08-15
The clashes come as local people blockade a construction site, demanding compensation.
2014-08-15
The internal disciplinary system operates entirely outside the law, lawyers say.
2014-08-14
One of China’s prominent rights lawyers has been ‘crushed both physically and psychologically,’ says his wife.
2014-08-14
But rights lawyers warn that similar cases have resulted in lenient sentences in the past.
2014-08-13
Officials tell lawyers they should never defend anyone with links to the banned movement.
2014-08-12
The women are calling for severance pay according to China's labor laws.
2014-08-12
Netizens say they are used to the sort of data collection Xiaomi apologized for.
2014-08-11
The families of three lawyers take to the city's streets, waving placards.
2014-08-08
Gao Zhisheng has yet to taste true freedom following his release from a Xinjiang prison, his wife says.
2014-08-08
Herders are evacuated, while all evidence of the 'secret' crash is rapidly cleared away.
2014-08-07
The relatives of those missing in the blast say they have yet to receive confirmation of their deaths.
2014-08-07
Gao Zhisheng's family fears he may suffer further 'disappearances.'
2014-08-06
Police have also held and threatened a number of activists who rallied to help the initial detainees.
2014-08-06
Some relief supplies and rescue teams get through, while many remote areas remain cut off by landslides.
2014-08-05
A corruption hotline is permanently engaged, while police form a protective wall around party investigators.
