Zhang Zhan, 37, faces prosecution on charges of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," a charge often used to target peaceful critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but has resisted pressure from police to "confess."
The process of sending people to mental hospitals for medically unnecessary "treatment" is aimed at discrediting dissidents, activists and petitioners for their political beliefs, stigmatizing them as mentally unfit.
It is called a vicious circle. Tibet’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) boss, Chen Quanguo, was transferred to Xinjiang in 2016, and implemented there against the Uyghurs the repressive strategies he had used against the Tibetans. Now, some of the new...
A court in Beijing Tuesday gave Chinese property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang, who once referred to China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, as a “clown,” an 18-year prison sentence and a fine of $620,000 after finding him guilty of corruption, bribery, embezzlement...
Ren, 69, was probed by the CCDI after writing an open letter about Xi's responses to the coronavirus epidemic, the Sino-U.S. trade war and the Taiwan elections. Sources have said investigators handled the letter, which took the form of a...
Who exactly took the responsibility to sign the order for the troops to shoot and kill was a matter of debate until 2004, when a three-hour documentary was produced by the CCP about the Tiananmen crackdown, and intended for view...
“Once inside, you must, by law, be kept in solitary confinement. Many detainees remain inside a suicide-padded cell for the full six months — some without ever seeing sunlight and without the lights ever being turned off. For China’s police,...
She was executed by firing squad at Shanghai's Longhua Airport in 1968 at the age of 36, and her family was ordered to pay five cents for the bullet that killed her. Filmmaker Phoebe Liu, director of "5-cent Life," an...
As more than 300,000 students went on strike in Inner Mongolia and refused to attend classes, protesting the replacement of Mongolian with Chinese as the primary language of education, the CCP identified “ringleaders” and published wanted lists in different cities
