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Boxun reader claims authorities killed 500,000 Chinese in four months in 1951
(Copy editor’s note: The only information provided about the author of the following article is that it came from a Boxun reader and was translated by Boxun into English.) More…
Middle school surrounded by polluting factories
Southern Metropolitan Daily newspaper: Because of frequent noxious odors, a physical education teacher at Yan Letian Memorial Middle School, Guangzhou must first determine the wind direction before deciding where to…
Movie producer tried but verdict not announced
Boxun’s reporter learned that the trial of Shen Yongping, producer of the documentary “100 Years of Constitutiona lGovernance,” began and ended on Dec. 12, 2014 in Beijing’s Chaoyang District People’s…
Family seizes hit-and-run cement mixer
Zhongdong Township, Huazhou City, Guangdong Province: At about 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, a cement mixer owned by Dadao Concrete Corporation and Jiangfen Corporation hit and injured two…
Microblog posts lead to subversion charges for Pu Zhiqiang
The lawyer representing jailed human rights attorney Pu Zhiqiang got a copy of the prosecutor’s complaint against Pu and has shared it with Boxun. Pu Zhiqiang is suspected of creating…
Land for food crops taken without payment
Cenqiao Collective, Ganlin Village, Heli Township, Heshan City, Guangxi Province: On Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 villagers marched to city government headquarters carrying a banner saying: “Destroyed our land, intolerable injustice,…
Tourist attraction to be built instead of water works; villagers object
Tai Village, Doujie Residential District, Jinan City, Shandong Province: Local government confiscated land for what they said was a water works project, but they built a tourist site instead. The…
Boxun article used as evidence to convict democracy activist Zhao Fengsheng
On November 28, 2014, democracy activist Zhao Fengsheng from Hengyang City, Hunan Province was sentenced by the Hengyang Intermediate People’s Court to four years in prison for the crime of…
Villagers film police attack on protesters
Shiquanjinjia Village, Guixi City, Jiangxi Province: Local government seized 2,500 mu of mountain forest from villagers. On Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, a large number of police officers entered the village…
Hundreds of Chinese Hui Muslims protest
Hundreds of Chinese Hui Muslims protest in Tai’an City, Shandong Province and surround the Public Security Bureau Xiawang Village, Daiyue District, Tai’an City, Shandong Province: Hired thugs from organized crime…
2,000 laid-off workers demand compensation in Suzhou
Shenghua Group of Taiwan has recently closed several subsidiaries, including Dongguan Wanshida Liquid Crystal Display Monitor Corporation in Guangdong Province, Liansheng Science and Technology Corporation, and Lianjian Science and Technology…
People from Xinjiang not allowed to enter residential quarter
People from Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region have been banned from admittance to a residential quarter in Shaodong County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province. Moreover, some local guesthouses refuse service to people…
