Wang Henan says her employer is trying to force her out of her job, and has already slashed her income. By Gao Feng for RFA Mandarin Wang Henan, the wife of jailed press freedom activist Wang Aizhong, says her employerRead More →
One year after a nationwide police operation rounded up some of China’s most prominent rights activists and lawyers following a gathering in the southeastern port city of Xiamen, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) looks set to further tighten itsRead More →
It is not only to prevent “dissidents” from escaping China, or Chinese to go gambling in Myanmar. It is also a barrier against Christianity. by Massimo Introvigne While building walls is generally criticized as a bad idea by the world’sRead More →
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan on Thursday held the retrial of an activist who expressed support for last year’s protest movement in Hong Kong. Xu Kun, a resident of Panlong district in the provincial capital, Kunming, stood trial byRead More →
The United Nations should allow an independent probe into whether its human rights body is providing China with the names of dissidents, including Uyghurs in exile, who testify about rights violations in the country, putting them and their families atRead More →
Takna Jigme Sangpo, famous as Tibet’s longest-serving political prisoner, has died in Switzerland at the age of 91 after spending 37 years in Chinese prisons and 18 years in exile, where he spoke out against Chinese human rights abuses inRead More →
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan are stepping up pressure on detained dissident poet Wang Zang to confess to “subversion” charges, after his wife Wang Li was sent to hospital from a police detention center. Police in Yunnan’sRead More →
A few years ago, Dong Qiongyao, a woman from China’s Hunan province, streamed a protest from in front of a state-owned company where she denounced the Communist Party and splashed ink on a portrait of the country’s leader, Xi Jinping.Read More →
China’s state security police are investigating detained dissident Xu Zhiyong for subversion after detaining him in the city he fled to after calling on President Xi Jinping to resign.Read More →
Police in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have detained dissident Xu Zhiyong — who had been on the run for seven weeks — using facial recognition technology and big data analysis, RFA has learned.Read More →
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hunan have released a woman incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital for splashing ink on a poster of China’s President Xi Jinping in a live-streamed protest on social media.Read More →
