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Another arrest in growing crackdown on 64Tianwang website reporters
Reporters Without Borders condemns this week’s arbitrary arrest of Yang Dongying, the latest victim of the Chinese government’s systematic persecution of citizen-journalists working for 64Tianwang (64Skynet), a news website run…
15 shot dead in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
Boxun received information that on Monday, June 22, 2015, 15 citizens, one police officer and one auxiliary police officer were shot dead in Kashgar, a city in the Xinjiang Uighur…
Bailiffs beat and detain lawyers for Falun Gong clients
Attorney Wang Yu reported the following: I just received a telephone call from a concerned party in Liaocheng City, Shandong Province. He said that starting at 9 a.m. today (Thursday…
Protesting Shanghai merchants beaten, arrested during market demolition
Recently, the Shanghai city government decided to demolish the Tongfu Yijiali International Stone City market in Fengxian District. Merchants began protests. In late May they raised banners saying: “The government…
General Guo Boxiong commemorative stone tablet removed
General Guo Boxiong commemorative stone tablet originally erected next to a pine tree already removed [Bowen Exclusive News,Beijing Thursday June 11, 2015] There is more circumstantial evidence that Chinese Communist…
Bo Xilai’s elder brother Bo Xiyong appears publicly in Beijing
High-profile commemoration During the Chinese Communist Party’s commemoration of the 110th anniversary of revolutionary elder Chen Yun’s birth, the CPC Central Committee held an event in the Great Hall of…
Rights activists Guo Bin, Yang Zhanqing seized in simultaneous nighttime arrests
Zhengzhou, Henan Province: On Friday June 12, 2015 at approximately 10 p.m., Beijing police arrested Zhengzhou Yirenping activist Guo Bin at his child’s bedside in Shenzhen Children’s Hospital. At the…
Netizen “Perry” arrested for public commemoration of Tiananmen Massacre
On Saturday June 13, 2015 Sichuan netizen “Perry” was criminally detained for the crimes of “picking quarrels and provoking troubles” and “disturbing public order.” On the June 4, 2015 anniversary…
Villagers protest unfair compensation for land requisition, violently attacked by police
On Friday June 12, 2015, in New Spring, Guijing and Jiufeng Villages, Three Forests Township, Pudong New District, Shanghai Municipality, hundreds of villagers dissatisfied with unfair compensation for land requisition…
Four children die after drinking pesticide
Seven Star District, Huajie City, Guizhou Province: A government website says that on the night of Tuesday, June 9, 2015, four children drank pesticide to kill themselves. They couldn’t be…
Carrie Lam says chance for political reform in Hong Kong “very small”
(BOXUN Translation, BBC report in Chinese) Hong Kong media on Tuesday June 9, 2015 reported that there remains one week for the Hong Kong Legislative Council to vote on whether…
US-China South China Sea competition; Chinese scholar issues harsh statement
US Zhongnanhai Lu scholars put relentless wrestling (Translated, Boxun Beijing Tuesday June 9, 2015) Mainland China scholar Ruan Zongze said today that the U.S., Japan, and the Philippines continuing to…
