Authorities in Hong Kong on Monday put on trial nine prominent figures of the city’s 2014 Occupy Central pro-democracy movement, four years after the event, on public order charges. The three activists who initiated the movement — law professor BennyRead More →
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have issued an “administrative punishment” to a rights lawyer who pursued a complaint about her treatment at the hands of local police. For the past two months, rights lawyer Sun Shihua hasRead More →
The church’s pastor was detained and the believers were prohibited from congregating at the venue again. On September 9, over 100 believers were in a congregation at a house church in Henan’s Xinyang city when they were ambushed by moreRead More →
Authorities in the eastern province of Zhejiang have detained a Catholic bishop, weeks after an agreement between Beijing and the Holy See aimed to unify the state-sponsored and Vatican-endorsed, underground churches in China. Bishop Peter (in Italian, Pietro) Shao ofRead More →
A day before the United Nations conducts a review of China’s record on human rights, several groups on Monday called for the immediate and unconditional release of a veteran rights activist in its southwestern province of Sichuan. Citizen journalist andRead More →
Officials at a university in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are forcing students and staff to forgo their Muslim dietary restrictions in favor of traditionally pork-heavy Han Chinese cuisine, saying halal food is associated with religious extremism. A reportRead More →
A session of the Parliament of the World’s Religions focused on religion-based Chinese refugees and introduced The Hoax, a movie about China’s attempt to harass the asylum seekers of The Church of Almighty God in South Korea. Marco Respinti TheRead More →
In a new move aimed at bringing Tibetan Buddhist monasteries more closely under the control of the Chinese state, authorities are now grooming carefully chosen monks to learn and represent the views of the ruling Communist Party, a rights groupRead More →
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have installed facial recognition equipment at several subway stations in the provincial capital Guangzhou in recent weeks, residents said on Monday. Anyone wishing to use the Guangzhou Metro has to have aRead More →
Authorities in China have slapped a travel ban on more than 100 Protestant Christians en route to a religious training event in South Korea, RFA has learned. State security police at airports in Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou issued the travelRead More →
