Ethnic Mongolian Herders Protest Lack of Compensation For Grazing Ban

Qiao Long and by Hai Nan  |  Radio Free Asia Hundreds of ethnic Mongolian herders in Inner Mongolia’s Heshigten banner have protested repeatedly in recent days over the nonpayment of subsidies after they were persuaded to stop grazing their animals as part of a regionwide ecological strategy. With banners urging the government “Pay out our […]

Taipei: 660,000 Petition Signatures Call for End to 17-Year Persecution

Shen Rong  |  Minghui.org Over 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners participated in a candlelight vigil at Taipei City Hall Square on the evening of July 17, 2016. The event was one of a series of activities held in many nations calling for an end to the violent suppression of Falun Gong in China since July 1999. […]

Tourists and Residents in Taiwan Support Suing Jiang Zemin

From Minghui web site The increasing number of lawsuits against former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, which amounts to over 200,000 as of December, 2015, has attracted much attention from the public inside China and overseas.    In Taiwan alone, nearly 100,000 signatures supporting the lawsuits were collected since July, and they were sent to both the […]

Petition Asks Chinese Leader to Intervene for Anastasia Lin, Miss World Canada

<!–[CDATA[ Cindy Drukier  |  Epoch Times Anastasia Lin, Miss World Canada, should be in China right now, competing for the Miss World Title. But she isn’t. She never received her invitation letter from China—the one issued to every other contestant—so she couldn’t apply for a visa. Her supporters have started a petition on change.org aimed at […]

HK legal heavyweights urge China to ‘uphold rule of law’ as justice dept refuses to sign petition

<!–[CDATA[Ellie Ng  |  Hong Kong Free Press Several of Hong Kong’s top lawyers have launched a global petition in protest of China’s unprecedented crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists. The petition, signed by 46 legal heavyweights from the Hong Kong Bar Association and chief executive election committee, denounces China’s “intimidating harassment” of more than 200 individuals in a nationwide crackdown […]

Two Tibetans Detained in Sichuan After Petition Over Land Grab

Lumbum Tashi  |  Radio Free Asia [caption id="attachment_5012" align="alignleft" width="300"] Tibetans petition in southwest China’s Chengdu for the return of land seized by local government, Jan. 28, 2015. (64TianWang)[/caption] Authorities in western China’s Sichuan province have detained two Tibetans in the latest roundup connected to a petition over confiscated land, according to sources. Rinchen Dorje, […]

A New Facility Replaces Labor Camps in China

Labor camps were shuts but new, legally facilities, some called “disciplinary centers” act the same.
Yang Jinfen testify: “My nearly 70-year-old mom has been detained without any legal procedure”