Story Archive
2016-09-30
Top pro-democracy lawmakers say there is nothing to celebrate about the establishment of a dictatorial regime.
2016-09-30
Among those held is a group of 12 petitioners from Chongqing, jailed for 'picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.'
2016-09-29
Shan Lihua is handed a 27-month prison term after she exposed 'excessive eating' by local officials.
2016-09-29
The relatives of detained lawyers say they have been smeared by official media and want to take their campaign to a higher level.
2016-09-28
The Occupy Central movement veterans say it may not have achieved its goal, but it did inspire a new generation to enter politics.
2016-09-28
Huge resources poured into pandas could be used to improve biodiversity overall, campaigners say.
2016-09-28
The brother of a man who opposed the categorization of people into a rigid class says his family still bears the scars of that dissent, 50 years on.
2016-09-27
Zhuang Liehong, who has staged protests at the United Nations to call attention to his troubled hometown, says he won't be quiet.
2016-09-27
A government report reveals a huge scandal around the approval of new pharmaceuticals for the domestic market.
2016-09-27
The new rules seek to legitimize the state's ongoing violation of individuals' right to privacy, a top rights lawyer says.
2016-09-26
State media say Zeng Feiyang and his fellow activists were treated leniently as repentant first offenders, but a former lawyer says he was not guilty of any crime.
2016-09-26
New rules seek to eradicate any overseas connections and to 'guard against separatism.'
2016-09-26
A report from Greenpeace says safety and environmental standards are 'lax' in the world's largest chemicals industry.
2016-09-23
Poet praises Germany for standing up for human rights at a time of heavy state pressure on lawyers, writers and activists.
2016-09-23
Beijing typically uses access to its huge domestic market as a way of keeping celebrities in line, analysts say.
2016-09-23
The move comes amid warnings over the erosion of traditional freedoms in the former British colony.
2016-09-22
Qin Yongmin could face a lengthy jail term, but his wife's family fear for her safety, more than 20 months after she disappears.
2016-09-22
Xia Lin had previously defended outspoken artist Ai Weiwei, earthquake researcher Tan Zuoren and top rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang.
2016-09-21
Court upholds non-jail sentences for three former student leaders of the 2014 Umbrella Movement.
2016-09-20
Activist Guan Guilin from Hunan's Hengyang city had tried to register as a candidate outside the ruling party.
2016-09-20
Residents of Qiqihar throng the streets in anger after plans for the plant are leaked online.
2016-09-19
Activists in Hong Kong gather in support of the rebel village, as a former resident complains to the United Nations.
2016-09-19
Liao Yiwu's latest work uses a central metaphor of ants, as apparently powerless but ultimately strong agents of resistance against oppression.
2016-09-16
Meanwhile, Hong Kong activists make mooncakes with a message, in support of relatives of victims of the 1989 military massacre.
2016-09-15
Journalists in the former British colony condemn treatment of colleagues as Chinese media warns of 'foreign forces' at work during protests.
2016-09-15
The order comes after news of the gruesome killings of four children by their mother and their parents' subsequent suicide went viral on social media.
2016-09-14
The country's rubber-stamp parliament needs to hold genuine elections before allegations of vote-buying make sense, activists say.
2016-09-14
Local residents say the situation is too tense to risk venturing out of their homes.
2016-09-13
Experts decry government whitewash attempt that follows a sweeping crackdown on lawyers as well as their families.
2016-09-13
Dozens of people are detained and an unknown number injured in street battles between residents and riot police.
