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Gunfire at government office kills one
A Boxun exclusive: On Sunday, January 18, 2015 between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., eyewitnesses at the Pingxiang municipal government headquarters in Guangxi Province saw one person with a gun…
30 mainlanders still detained, interrogated and abused for supporting Hong Kong’s Occupy protests
As of Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, 30 mainland activists still were detained for supporting Hong Kong’s Occupy Central movement. They include: Jiang Liuyong, Li Dongmei (female), Liu Huizhen (female), Han…
Tens of thousands of taxi drivers in multiple cities go on strike on the same day
On Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, 15,000 taxi drivers went on strike in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. The cabs gathered in all city districts. Striking cab drivers said fees…
Imprisoned civil rights lawyer’s health seriously worsens
When lawyer Liu Lianhe went to the Beijing Number One Detention Center to meet his client, he learned that the client was detained in the same cell with civil rights…
Lawyer for arrested IT activist denied access to client
On Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, attorney Xie Yanyi went to Beijing Number One Detention Center and demanded to see his client Xu Dong, criminally detained on suspicion of the crime…
Democracy activist Qin Yongmin is detained again, house raided
On Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, Qin Yongmin and Zhao Suli were detained by officers of Wuhan’s Qingshan District Xingouqiao police station. After 8 p.m. that evening, Qin was told that…
“Occupy” movement appears on the Mainland–Nanjing cab drivers go on strike and “occupy” streets
On Thursday January 8, 2015, more than 1,000 taxi cabs went on strike in Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu Province. The drivers independently gathered at the train station, airport…
Protesting villagers beaten, 38 injured
HGelong Village, Dawei Township, E’meishan City. Sichuan Province: Local government seized land for excavating a mine, but only arranged for 10 of the 28 village households to be relocated. This…
Villagers demonstrate and barricade government headquarters
Baisheng Village, Xiao’ao Township, Lianjiang County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province: The village Communist Party secretary, village chief and other officials privately sold village land at an artificially low price to…
State-owned company fails to pay hundreds of workers
Lingshan County, Qinzhou City, Guangxi Province: Tongfang Hechen Precision Electronic Science and Technology Corporation owes workers several months’ salaries. On Dec. 24, 2014 hundreds of workers in two factory parks…
Villagers surround industrial park to protest acrid fumes
Quzhou, Guantao and Guangping counties, Handan City, Hebei Province: A chemical factory in an industrial park has been secretly releasing acrid poisonous gas in the night. In addition, the cancer…
Family members demand release of Tiananmen commemoration attendees
On the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, family members of people arrested at a commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre went to the Guancheng District Procuratorate in Zhengzhou…
