Pompeo Condemns Atrocities in China, Vows to Safeguard International Religious Freedom

EVA FU | EPOCH TIMES U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo sternly reprimanded China for “staggering religious abuses” committed in the country during his unveiling of the State Department’s annual report on global religious freedom on June 21. He warned that governments that persecute religious believers should not be able to get away with such actions without consequences. […]

Human Rights in China Worsen as Beijing Extends Reach to Hong Kong: Report

Lam Kwok-lap and Zhang Li  |  Radio Free Asia Freedoms of speech and religion, the rule of law, and individual rights and freedoms have worsened during the past year under the ruling Chinese Communist Party, an annual congressional-executive report has found, calling on the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to do more to halt […]

Liu Xiaobo: The Founder of China’s Political Opposition Movements

Dr. Wu Qiang  |  China Change This article was first published in ChinaChange website These actions show that Liu Xiaobo is not only a hardworking dissident author, but also a leader and organizer of political opposition. His superb leadership ability and political acumen allowed him to establish, during the course of the first decade of […]

Hong Kong Protesters to President Xi: ‘Release Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo!’

Lam Kwok-lap, Goh Fung, Ng Yik-tung andby Ding Wenqi  |  Radio Free Asia As President Xi Jinping arrived in the city to mark two decades of Chinese rule on Thursday, protesters gathered in downtown Hong Kong to call for the release of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and 17 democracy activists held following a protest […]

Chinese Activists Send Cards to Hundreds of Prisoners of Conscience

Lee Lai  |  Radio Free Asia Rights activists in China have launched a greetings card campaign for political prisoners around the country ahead of Chinese New Year celebrations on Jan. 30, as foreign diplomats paid visits to embattled activists faced with eviction in Beijing. The campaign started with the mass mailing of some 200 greetings cards to jailed prisoners […]

US Lawmakers, Chinese Dissidents Ask Trump to Pressure Beijing on Rights

Voice of America WASHINGTON — Some U.S. lawmakers are urging President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration to recalibrate U.S.-China relations with a harder line on human rights. “It is increasingly clear that there is direct link between China’s domestic human-rights problems and the security and prosperity of the United States,” Congressman Chris Smith said at […]

Six Years On, China’s Jailed Nobel Laureate, Family Face a Bleak Future

Goh Fung  |  Radio Free Asia Six years after winning the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, jailed Chinese dissident looks unlikely to be given the chance to ‘seek medical parole’ overseas like high-profile dissidents have done before him, a close associate told RFA. Liu, 60, is unlikely to qualify for parole, because he has never admitted […]

Pro-Democracy Activist Stands Trial For Subversion in China’s Guangdong

Hai Nan  |  Radio Free Asia A court in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Thursday began the subversion trial of another rights activist who supported the 2014 pro-democracy movement in neighboring Hong Kong. Su Changlan pleaded not guilty at the Intermediate People’s Court in her hometown of Foshan to charges of “incitement to […]