Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have sentenced an ethnic Mongolian writer in secret on “separatism” charges, a rights group said at the weekend. Lhamjab A. Borjigin, 75, was handed a one-year suspended prison sentence by theRead More →
China’s internet regulator this week issued a set of guidelines detailing what more than 700 million internet users and content creators should post online, including “spreading the thought of President Xi Jinping.” The guidelines titled “On managing the online ecology”Read More →
Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have detained dozens of ethnic minority Muslim Kazakhs for sharing the national anthem of neighboring Kazakhstan via social media, RFA has learned. The People’s Republic of China is home to around 1.5Read More →
The ruling to impose cremations in Jiangxi Province sparked protests, which the state quickly crushed. Some elderly chose suicides to be buried ahead of reform. by Wang Yong Burial of the dead is an ancient tradition in China, where gravesRead More →
Two ethnic Uyghurs who run what is widely considered the most successful real estate firm of the past decade in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have been arrested, with at least one sentenced to a lengthy prison term,Read More →
ADHRRF-On March 15, 2019, a landslide struck Zaoling township in Xiangning county under the jurisdiction of Linfen city in Northern China’s Shanxi Province, causing severe casualties. Afterward, however, the local government strove to block news of the incident and coverRead More →
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 →
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 →
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Friday handed down a three-year jail term to a musician who sang about late Nobel peace laureate and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo. Singer-songwriter Xu Lin was sentenced to three years’ imprisonmentRead More →
