Amnesty International condemns the formal arrest of prominent scholar and activist Liu Xiaobo on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power” on 23 June. The ...
Scholar and activist Liu Xiaobo was formally arrested for “inciting subversion of state power” on 23 June. Liu Xiabo has been held under “residential surveillance ...
Prisoners of conscience Yan Dongfei and Qiao Yongfang were detained on 8 June 2009 in the city of Hohhot (Huhehaote), in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in ...
Yusufjan and Memetjan, both ethnic Uighurs and students at Xinjiang University, were detained on 10 May 2009 in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region ...
During a 26 May visit by his lawyer, Sichuan human rights activist Huang Qi claimed that he had been questioned for long hours and sometimes deprived of sleep: ...
Chinese authorities have stepped up curbs on dissenting voices and escalated censorship of activists throughout the country, a day before the 20th anniversary of ...
Chinese authorities should hold an open and independent inquiry into the 1989 violent military crackdown on peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square ...