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 →
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 →
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 →
A Maoist group backing a workers’ movement in the southern province of Guangdong on Thursday called on the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official union to stand up for workers’ rights, and work for the release of detained workers and activists.Read More →
Authorities in the southeastern Chinese province of Guangdong have announced a probe into the defense lawyer of detained rights activist Huang Qi, in a move that could remove his ability to represent his client, RFA has learned. Huang’s defense attorneyRead More →
Police in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong illegally detained and beat a human rights lawyer, a U.S.-based rights group has said on its website. Rights lawyer Sun Shihua was beaten and illegally detained by police at Hualin police stationRead More →
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong have sealed off a city after thousands of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) veterans converged there over a weekend of protests and clashes over police beatings of their former comrades-in-arms, local activists andRead More →
Vaccine campaigners in China say they are increasingly worried about the safety of Shanghai activist Tan Hua, who has been incommunicado since her detention in Beijing more than five weeks ago. Tan, 38, who has suffered from epilepsy, deafness, andRead More →
China is issuing an effective travel ban to teachers in its elementary and secondary schools, recalling their passports in some locations ahead of the National Day holiday this week. Teachers in the coastal city of Xiamen and Shandong’s Tai’an city have been ordered to hand in their passports and any entry permits for the former European colonial territories of Hong Kong and Macau.Read More →
