‘They Don’t Deserve Sympathy’: How a Young Police Recruit Switched Sides to Join the Hong Kong Protests
Holmes Chan | Hong Kong Free Press On the evening of June 21, Patrick Lee wanted to talk about love. Hundreds of protesters had surrounded Wan Chai police headquarters, vandalising its facade and chanting “shame on corrupt cops.” Lee’s mission was to get protesters to lift the blockade. Stepping outside the building, he made a […]
The man behind the vests
Lori Harel | Tuidang Center Published on 15th August 2015 Michael Chu formed a Flushing neighborhood-watch organization (FNW) in May 2010. As team leader, Chu wears a beige vest and leads 10 volunteers around the Queens Chinatown streets weeknights at 8 pm. They blow a whistle and call 911 should any local disturbance erupt. Printed […]
People’s Armed Police in China Updates on Its Exit From Hospital Industry
Larry Ong | Epoch Times The Chinese regime’s paramilitary force has started giving up its business projects—a move that could have a consequential impact on a severe human rights violation that is still on-going in China. On November 15 in the city of Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province in eastern China, the People’s Armed Police […]
Wife of Detained Lawyer Accuses Beijing Police of Harassment
Wang Qiaoling recently went to Tianjin, east of Beijing, to find out about the trial of her husband, Li Heping. He is one of several rights lawyers detained since July 2015. When she got home Tuesday, the owner of her building told her to move out.
Police Detain Hundreds of Protesting Former Teachers in Beijing
Xin Lin | Radio Free Asia More than 1,000 former teachers converged on a central government complaints office in Beijing on Monday in protest over years of service with unequal pay. The former teachers from across China gathered outside the State Council complaints office, calling on the government to retroactively implement its promise to award […]
Protesting Chinese Waste Plant, Tens of Thousands Clash With Armed Riot Police
Juliet Song | Epoch Times Local authorities in Hubei Province, faced with tens of thousands of demonstrators protesting the proposed construction of a waste incineration facility near their community in the town of Xiantao, dispatched legions of riot police to violently suppress the mass gathering. Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that on June 25, locals in […]
Report: 4-Year-Old Chinese Boy Clipped by Police Van During Mother’s Arrest
Jack Phillips | Epoch Times A 4-year-old Chinese boy was hit by a police car and was placed in police detention for 36 hours, a report says. The boy, identified only as Xiaoyu, was clipped by a Chinese police van when he was with his mother in Beijing. Police closed in to arrest his mother, Liu […]
Hong Kong Police Detain Five Democracy Activists During Chinese Leader’s Visit
Lam Kwok-lap and Wen Yuqing | Radio Free Asia Hong Kong police on Thursday chased down and detained five pro-democracy activists after they tried to protest along the route of a motorcade carrying a visiting Chinese leader. Joshua Wong, student leader of the 2014 pro-democracy movement, was chased along a busy highway by Hong Kong traffic […]
How Chinese Media Systematically Lies About the Police
Juliet Song | Epoch Times Skimming through news articles in Chinese publications, it’s hard not to notice a trend emerging out of the average: the superb quality of China’s police force. The purported exploits, from ordinary acts of kindness to detective triumphs of extraordinary merit, of these tireless “uncle policemen,” as they are known to Chinese, […]
Thousands Strike at Specialty Distiller in China’s Sichuan
Lin Jing | Radio Free Asia Thousands of workers at a specialty distiller in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan are continuing to strike over mass layoffs at the company despite weekend clashes between workers and police. Workers at the Sichuan Tuopai Shede Wine Co. in Sichuan’s Suining tangled with riot police on Sunday night […]