Rights Lawyer, Activist Wife Forced From Beijing Home Following Utilities Shutoff
Wang was a prominent target of a nationwide crackdown that saw more than 300 human rights lawyers and associates detained beginning on the night of July 9, 2015 – known as the “709 Crackdown.” He was subsequently jailed for several years after he was found guilty of “subversion of state power,” and later sued the authorities over his treatment while in detention.
Removal Crews at Home of Late Chinese Premier Ahead of Chinese Communist Party Centenary
Prior to his ouster for showing sympathy with the student protesters, Zhao was a liberal-minded and well-loved leader who rose to the top of the ruling party at the 13th Party Congress in 1987.
Family of Late, Ousted Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang Visit Grave
Zhao died at his courtyard home after 16 years under house arrest following his ouster in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) that ended the student-led pro-democracy movement that had occupied Tiananmen Square for several weeks.
Ren Zhiqiang, Chinese Dissident Property Tycoon Defends Himself at Trial
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 long and highly critical essay, as an instance of “internal strife” within the ruling party.
China’s Citizen Journalists Persecuted for Reporting the Truth
HUANG XIN | BITTER WINTER People who seek to disclose the lies behind the CCP’s propaganda are accused of “divulging state secrets” and are treated as spies. Disappointed with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-controlled official media that feeds citizens with carefully-crafted propaganda, the increasing number of people are becoming unofficial journalists in China to investigate and […]
China Aims For Total Control of People's Thinking From Primary Level Upwards
“Limiting access to foreign textbooks is a way to maintain ideological unity from the primary level of education upwards,” Gu said. “The system knows that knowledge is its nemesis, so it has to monopolize the right to define knowledge in order to continue existing.”
China Places Outspoken Dissidents Under House Arrest Ahead of Parliament
Qiao Long and Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia Authorities in Beijing have placed a number of high-profile dissidents and rights activists under close surveillance in the wake of an announcement by the ruling Chinese Communist Party that it plans to remove limits to leaders’ terms in office. The announcement last Sunday by the party’s […]
Veteran Democracy Activist Tracked Down to Wuhan Detention Center
Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia Disappeared’ Chinese democracy activist Qin Yongmin is being secretly held at a police-run detention center in the central city of Wuhan, RFA has learned. Qin’s whereabouts were unknown since he went missing in Jan. 19, 2015, amid unconfirmed reports that he had been tried in secret on charges of […]
A Year After Sentencing Gao Yu, China is Asked to let her Receive Treatment in Germany
Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RSF) joins Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human rights lawyer who has been living in the United States for the past four years, in urging the Chinese authorities to allow journalist Gao Yu to travel to Germany to receive medical treatment. RSF is relaying the video in which Chen calls […]
‘Today, I Must Break My Silence’: Veteran Journalist Gao Yu
Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia Veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu on Friday defied an official ban on giving media interviews to speak out in anger at the demolition of her garden by local urban management officers, known in China as “chengguan.” The Beijing Municipal Bureau of City Administration and Law Enforcement sent the “chengguan,” […]