Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan are holding the elderly mother of jailed rights activist Huang Qi after detaining her in Beijing last December. Pu Wenqing, 85, has been a vocal campaigner for Huang’s release on urgent medicalRead More →
An independent group of overseas Chinese students has hit out at Communist Party-backed student groups on overseas campuses, following reports that they threatened and harassed Uyghur and Tibetan activists campaigning against Beijing’s human rights violations. The Independent Federation of ChineseRead More →
ADHRRF – On Human Rights Day, The Church of Almighty God (CAG) Christians who fled from China to Italy participated in street activities in Milan and Rome, condemning and exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s flagrant violations of human rights. OnRead More →
Repeated arrests of believers from Early Rain Covenant Church continue. The details of the beating of one faithful woman illustrate the extent of the injustice. As Bitter Winter reported, on December 9, the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, theRead More →
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have jailed a human rights lawyer for five years, RFA has learned. Chen Wuquan was found guilty of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” by a court in Guangdong’s Zhenjiang city andRead More →
Angry parents in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu clashed with officials and police last week, after 145 children got sick from expired vaccines. The victims, who range in age from three months to four years, suffered fever, skin rashes,Read More →
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has stepped up a nationwide crackdown on Christians, raiding and detaining pastors and members of churches in several locations as urban authorities warn against public Christmas decorations and events. Authorities are undergoing “one of theRead More →
The United States’ Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday indicted two Chinese nationals for a massive hacking campaign targeting intellectual property and sensitive commercial data around the world. The department unsealed indictments against Zhu Hua and Zhang Shilong, saying inRead More →
China says a detained Canadian woman is serving “administrative punishment” for working illegally. At a briefing with reporters Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying identified the woman as Sarah McIver. She did not give details about the penalties. Canadian mediaRead More →
In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have been constantly increasing the intensity of their crackdown on religious freedom. They often aggressively attack foreign missionaries evangelizing in China, on the grounds of “resisting foreign religious infiltration.” As a result, many foreign missionaries have been arrested and forcibly deported by the CCP.Read More →
