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 →
The mother of Chinese rights activist and website editor Huang Qi has been detained by official ‘interceptors’ in Beijing, who shoved her to the ground after she tried to take her calls for his release to the Chinese capital. PuRead More →
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hunan have placed a prominent freelance journalist and associates under criminal detention, RFA has learned. Chen Jieren, his brother Chen Weiren and associate Deng Jiangxiu were placed under criminal detention on Nov. 12Read More →
China has stepped up pressure on its embattled legal profession, requiring more than 100,000 lawyers to take a new national oath to “root out instability,” particularly in ethnic minority areas of the country. Justice minister Fu Zhenghua attended a collectiveRead More →
Authorities in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang have detained an award-winning documentary photographer who was on a trip there, his wife has said. Lu Guang, 57, has been missing, presumed detained since Nov. 3, while he was in theRead More →
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu have formally arrested a prominent rights activist after he visited the grave of executed Mao-era dissident Lin Zhao. Zhu Chengzhi has been incommunicado since Apr. 29 when he was taken away fromRead More →
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 →
