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Rural Women Fight for Lucrative Land Rights in Court
Across China, many women with rural hukou are systematically denied lucrative village land rights. Village assemblies, ostensibly autonomous local political organizations, decide who is a member of...
View ArticleChina Frees American Pastor After Nearly 20 Years of Detention
In a rare event on Monday, the Chinese government has freed an American citizen who it had detained for nearly 20 years. The citizen, David Lin, was a pastor who was born in China and then lived in...
View ArticleChina Raises Retirement Age In Response to Longevity Increases
Last week, the Chinese government announced that it will raise the retirement age. The long-expected move is deeply unpopular but, the government holds, necessary to relieve strain on China’s work...
View ArticleTranslation: Chinese Universities Install Software to Identify and Punish...
A recent WeChat post reveals some of the tools that Chinese schools and universities are using special software to identify and punish students who “scale the wall”—that is, circumvent China’s Great...
View ArticleHong Kong Resident Gets 14 Months Imprisonment for “Seditious” T-Shirt
The first sentencing under Hong Kong’s new Article 23 national security law (officially called the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance) occurred this week, as a man was sentenced to 14 months...
View ArticleAppeals of Rights Defenders Huang Xueqin, Wang Jianbing Denied in Secretive...
The Guangdong Provincial High Court denied the appeals of imprisoned human rights defenders Wang Jianbing and Huang Xueqin in a secretive trial held last week, without notifying their attorneys. The...
View ArticleCalls for Ilham Tohti’s Release on the Tenth Anniversary of His Life Sentence
September 23 marks the tenth anniversary of prominent Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti being sentenced to life in prison on unsubstantiated charges of “separatism” for his work advocating for better...
View ArticleMarie Holzman: Thoughts on Ilham Tohti’s Arrest in 2014
To mark the tenth anniversary on Monday of his sentencing to life in prison, Marie Holzman writes at the online human-rights journal Diyin on Ilham Tohti’s case and its enduring significance. The...
View ArticleCitizen Journalist Zhang Zhan Re-detained, Her Mother and Attorney Harassed...
Chinese human rights website Weiquanwang has reported that lawyer-turned-citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has been detained again and is being held by authorities in Shanghai, just months after her...
View ArticleXi’an Woman Arrested For Posting Video of Snow
Yesterday, police in Xi’an announced the arrest of a 33-year-old woman for rumor mongering. Her crime? Posting a video claiming that it was snowing in Xi’an, when in fact it was not. In a notice...
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Heilongjiang Cadre Expelled from Party for Reading Forbidden Publications
A local cadre from the northern province of Heilongjiang was recently expelled from the Chinese Communist Party for reading illegal publications with “serious political issues,” making him the latest...
View ArticleOnline Reactions to Fatal Stabbings at Shanghai Walmart, Zurich Daycare Center
Chinese netizens and bloggers have responded to two recent fatal stabbings—one at home and one abroad—with shock, online detective work, and comparisons to two other previous stabbings that targeted...
View ArticleMichael Kovrig Describes “Psychological Torture” During 1,019-Day Detention
In a two-part podcast interview with The Economist’s Drum Tower, former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig has described the “nightmare Groundhog Day” of his 1,019-day detention in China. Kovrig was one...
View ArticleTranslation: In Open Letter to Xi Jinping, Ren Xinyi Pleads for Medical...
Ren Xinyi, the daughter of Ren Zhiqiang—a 73-year-old former real-estate magnate currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for corruption and other offenses—recently published an open letter to Xi...
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On Second Anniversary of Sitong Bridge Protest, Lone Protester Peng Lifa’s...
Two years after Peng Lifa’s courageous one-man protest on Beijing’s Sitong Bridge against Xi Jinping and the CCP’s autocratic rule, his whereabouts are still unknown, although it is widely presumed...
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