People in China Cherish the Nine Commentaries and Thank Practitioners for Spreading the Truth
“I never tire of listening to the Nine Commentaries. I think it would be great if everyone in China could listen to it. I dream of the day when all media, on major roads and small alleys, will spread this publication where it will be broadcast repeatedly, freeing people’s thoughts that will herald a future where there is freedom of human rights. That day is not too far away and it will come for sure. Nothing can stop it!”
Chinese Communist Party Launches ‘Patriotic Education’ Law for Youth
the device was removed from shelves following a parent’s complaint that it generated an essay calling Mao “narrow-minded” for instigating the Cultural Revolution in 1966.
Chinese rights lawyer Lu Siwei was repatriated by Laos last week
“The thing I feared was suddenly right there in front of me,” she said, commenting on being told that the police document seen on social media was genuine. “Before that, it just had a vague existence [in my mind], but then I saw all at once, saw clearly that this was real.”
Remembering enforced disappearance victims in Asia
Rahile Dawut disappeared in December 2017, and at the time was believed to have been arrested and detained in one of the many internment camps in Xinjiang. More than three years after her disappearance, former co-workers at Xinjiang University confirmed that Rahile was detained along with other members of the Uyghur intellectual and cultural elite, sentenced, and jailed.
The Police Decide Not to Persecute Us
After a few more hours, Gai told us to pack our bags and he handed us our transportation cards. Then he asked Sen to take us to the bus station. Sen refused, slapped his hand on the table, and said, “We just let them go like this?”
US Official Calls for Sanctions on China Over Death of Jailed Journalist
“We call on the PRC government to immediately end its abuse and mistreatment of Falun Gong practitioners, release those imprisoned due to their beliefs, and address the whereabouts of missing practitioners,” a department spokesperson
A Third of China’s Provinces Saw More Deaths Than Births in 2021, Exacerbating Demographic Crisis
Official data also showed that China’s population grew by just 480,000 to 1.4126 billion last year — marking the smallest population increase since 1962 — a sharp decline from the 2.04 million increase in 2020.
China Steps up Social Media Censorship, ‘Upgrades’ Great Firewall Ahead of Congress
Former 1989 Tiananmen protest leader Wang Dan, said via Twitter that WeChat appeared to be preventing blocked users from outside China from chatting privately with users back home, a move which he termed “a new firewall.”
Chow Hang-tung’s Testimony During Preliminary Court Inquiry in the Hong Kong Alliance ‘Incitement to Subversion’ Case
I can say that the Alliance’s candlelight vigils were the most formative civic lessons in my childhood. From them, I experienced firsthand what justice was, where hearts and minds were, and what public participation was. They also gave me role models, whether it was the students in Tiananmen Square who were willing to sacrifice everything for democracy,
China Braces for Bad Harvests as Drought Scours 10 Million Acres of Farmland
According to a statement released by China’s Ministry of Rural Affairs, the Yangtze River basin has been receding at an alarming pace since August — resulting in subpar soybeans and rice grains — crops most sensitive to temperature and moisture levels during the early growth stages.