China Continues Nationwide Crackdown on Rights Lawyers, Activists
China is continuing a nationwide crackdown on rights activists, detaining lawyer Chang Weiping at an...Read More
2020-01-17
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China Detains Eight Activists, Questions More After Dec. 13 Meeting in Xiamen
Chinese police have launched a nationwide operation detaining at least eight people and questioning ...Read More
2020-01-06
Concerns Grow For Disappeared Chinese Rights Activists At Christmas
Authorities in the Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Hunan have detained two activists who showed op...Read More
2019-12-27
Labor NGO Founder, Volunteer, Intern Detained in China’s Guangdong
A labor rights worker, a volunteer and an intern were reported incommunicado in the southern Chinese...Read More
2019-12-21
Prominent Uyghur Activist Dies Days After Release From Xinjiang Internment Camp
A long-time Uyghur activist has died days after being released from an internment camp in northwest ...Read More
2019-12-04
U.K. Summons Chinese Ambassador in ‘Outrage’ Over Tortured Consular Employee
Britain on Wednesday summoned the Chinese ambassador to express "outrage" at the detention and tortu...Read More
2019-11-21
Police in China’s Guangzhou Detain Feminist Who Wrote About Hong Kong
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have detained an outspoken writer and #MeT...Read More
2019-10-25
Rights network urges China to release Shanghai-based activist
Human rights groups have called on China to free a prominent Shanghai activist arrested more than si...Read More
2019-10-24
Hundreds Protest Against Disregard of Human Rights in Dutch Policy Memo on China
ADHRRF — One day before October 1, China’s National Day, hundreds of representatives from groups per...Read More
2019-10-23
Tiananmen Liquor Seller, Family Forced Out of Home in China’s Sichuan
A man recently released after serving jail time in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan for ...Read More
2019-10-12
Democracy Activist Who Called For Chinese President’s Resignation Dies in Police Custody
A rights activist who called publicly for the resignation of Chinese president Xi Jinping has died i...Read More
2019-09-26
Mother of Jailed Chinese Rights Activist Under Police Guard in Own Home
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan are holding the elderly mother of jailed...Read More
2019-02-22
China’s Rights Activists Face Torture, Detention, ‘Disappearance’: Report
China's human rights activists continue to speak out on behalf of victims of the ruling Chinese Comm...Read More
2019-02-22
China Jails Guangdong Musician Who Sang About Liu Xiaobo
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Friday handed down a three-year jail te...Read More
2018-12-14
Mother of Detained Chinese Rights Activist ‘Disappears’ After Detention in Beijing
The mother of Chinese rights activist and website editor Huang Qi has been detained by official R...Read More
2018-12-14
Chinese Police Formally Arrest Activist Who Visited Grave of Mao-Era Martyr
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu have formally arrested a prominent rights act...Read More
2018-11-22
Detained, Ailing Chinese Activist Faces Neglect, Death in Police Detention: Groups
A day before the United Nations conducts a review of China’s record on human rights, several g...Read More
2018-11-12
China Probes Outspoken Rights Lawyer Defending Ailing Sichuan Activist
Authorities in the southeastern Chinese province of Guangdong have announced a probe into the defens...Read More
2018-10-25
Activist Joshua Wong Banned From Travel, Four Years After Democracy Movement Began
Four years after he helped to launch a mass civil disobedience movement for fully democratic electio...Read More
2018-09-30
Thai Court Rules Police Can Hold Chinese Dissident Couple For 12 More Days
A court in the Thai capital Bangkok ruled on Monday that police can hold two political refugees from...Read More
2018-09-19
Chinese Police Ban Activist’s Planned Visit to Democratic Taiwan
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu have slapped a travel ban on a rights activis...Read More
2018-09-11