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.

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 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 […]

‘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,” […]