Story Archive
2016-10-31
Lawyers are being subjected to beatings, illegal detention, strip-searches and denial of entry to courtrooms to defend clients, they say.
2016-10-31
Qin Chao is the only one of five rights website volunteers not to be released, and may be at risk of torture.
2016-10-28
An exiled Mongolian rights activist remembers dissident writer Huuchinhuu, who has just died.
2016-10-27
Environmental activists say the central government is trying to take back control of monitoring amid widespread fraud by local officials.
2016-10-27
A communique calls on members of the ruling Chinese Communist Party to 'unite around Comrade Xi Jinping.'
2016-10-26
A Legislative Council session is canceled after lawmakers barge in and loudly protest their debarring by its chairman.
2016-10-26
Beijing doesn't believe in the universality of human rights and refuses to cooperate with U.N. monitoring, activists say.
2016-10-25
Activists are taken away from their homes during a top-level political meeting of the ruling Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.
2016-10-25
A huge stash of explosives may have been stored for use in the region's many coal mines.
2016-10-24
Zhou Ping says he fled China to avoid political repercussions for his young children linked to his activism.
2016-10-24
Some would-be independent election candidates are put under surveillance, while others are forced to take out-of-town 'vacations.'
2016-10-21
Lin Zuluan retracted a televised "confession" and appealed his jail term for corruption.
2016-10-20
ViuTV fired two former student activists after they discussed independence for Hong Kong in a public debate.
2016-10-19
The majority pro-government camp in the city's legislature says many people are angry over anti-China slurs in previously rejected oaths.
2016-10-18
The ruling Chinese Communist Party considers disgruntled military veterans a potential major threat to stability, analysts say.
2016-10-18
While his colleagues are accounted for, Gui Minhai is still being held in an unknown location with no access to family or a lawyer.
2016-10-17
The alert comes after some 10,000 people protest in the city for four consecutive days, fearing pollution from the plant.
2016-10-17
Miao Deshun was scheduled for release from a Beijing jail after serving 27 years, in poor mental and physical health.
2016-10-14
Torture camp survivor Hao Wei has advanced cancer and hopes to take her daughter overseas on a U.N.-backed resettlement program.
2016-10-14
The program gets the go-ahead from Beijing, but is vetoed for 'security' reasons by state security police in Hebei province.
2016-10-13
Thousands who joined mass demonstrations over unpaid benefits this week have been promised a response by New Year's Day.
2016-10-13
A directive from the country's internet regulator cites "problematic reports" published recently by Caixin Online.
2016-10-12
Observers say Lin Zuluan, who is appealing his jail term, was forced to confess after his grandson was kidnapped.
2016-10-12
Three localist lawmakers-elect are told their oaths are invalid after swearing and changing the wording during their ceremonies.
2016-10-11
The veterans span several decades of China's military history and say they haven't received promised retirement benefits.
2016-10-11
Liu Shu's green activist group campaigned for the rights of ordinary Chinese people affected by toxic pollutants.
2016-10-10
Protesters called for the event to be canceled, but city officials simply charged organizers a higher rate instead.
2016-10-10
Downfall of another Zhou Yongkang ally shows why Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive is still seen as chiefly targeting political rivals.
2016-10-07
Liu Xiaobo's wife is being held incommunicado by charges hanging over her brother, while Liu himself is unlikely to get parole.
2016-10-07
Rights activists warn that Beijing has little to lose from the death of the city's traditional way of life.
