Last Friday, police detained prominent attorney and activist Wang Cheng after he launched an online campaign to gather one million signatures supporting his call for the Chinese government to ratify the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
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In Dzoege (Chinese: Ruo'er'gai 若尔盖) County in Sichuan Province, authorities announced harsh measures intended to punish the families of self-immolators and the monasteries to which they belong.
A recent study suggests that Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, censors Chinese language search requests in accordance with Communist Party directives.
Chinese-American businessman Vincent Wu is now standing trial in China after more than 18 months of detention.
Xu Zhiyong, a prominent Chinese activist and attorney, has appealed his conviction for "gathering a crowd to disrupt order.” Xu argues that he was "simply exercising a citizen’s right to freedom of expression, which is guaranteed by the Constitution."
About 600-700 petitioners escaped from a black jail in Beijing during the Chinese New Year holiday. One petitioner interviewed by Radio Free Asia said that prisoners had been denied water, quilts, and adequate food.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Andrew Erickson and William McCahill argue that recent political developments and official pronouncements indicate that China’s new National Security Commission will focus primarily on maintaining state s
The Chinese government will reportedly refuse to approve a visa application filed by New York Times journalist Austin Ramzy, which means he will be effectively deported from China by the end of the week. Contrary to Chinese government statements, the NYT claims it followed appropriate procedures in submitting Ramzy’s visa application.
The Beijing Intermediate People’s Court sentenced lawyer and civil society activist Xu Zhiyong to four years in prison for “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order.” The charges leveled against Xu stem from the pivotal role he played in organizing the New Citizens Moveme
The city of Guangzhou, the sprawling capital of Guangdong province, announced the creation of “speedy trials” to try defendants who previously would have been incarcerated in re-education-through-labor camps. Until the system was formally aboli