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Apartment owners protest and are violently attacked

Apartment owners protest and are violently attacked

In Runchi International Plaza, Shuangliu County, Chengdu Municipality, Sichuan Province, due to a real estate developer not honoring the terms of a contract regarding rental returns, on Wednesday morning May…

Police issue sixth summons to Democracy Party member Chen Kaipin for the crime of “subversion”

Police issue sixth summons to Democracy Party member Chen Kaipin for the crime of “subversion”

Boxun’s correspondent was informed that at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 3, 2015, China Democracy Party Zhejiang committee member Chen Kaipin was again summoned by the Hangzhou Domestic Security police…

Netizen imprisoned for posts about big business released after 18 months

Netizen imprisoned for posts about big business released after 18 months

Boxun translation from Southern Weekend newspaper report: On April 11, 2015, Wang Weihua (net name: “Heaven Earth Chivalrous Shadow”) left Urumqi’s Liudaowan Detention Center in Xinjiang Province. He’d been imprisoned…

To prevent middle school students from committing suicide, iron railings installed

To prevent middle school students from committing suicide, iron railings installed

On Sunday March 29, 2015 at 5 a.m., a Hengshui Number Two Middle School senior-year student jumped to his death. The school didn’t notify the family until nearly 8 a.m.…

Letter smuggled out in a shoe exposes fake brand-name products produced in prison

Letter smuggled out in a shoe exposes fake brand-name products produced in prison

(BOXUN) Dong’ge Village, Haikou Township, Fuqing City, Fujian Province: Fifteen years ago, Chen Shangkun was sentenced to life in prison. The reason was his involvement in a brawl involving other…

Kokang battle: Peng Jiasheng leads troops through China

[Bowen News, Beijing, Thursday April 16, 2015] Foreign media reported that in the past two months the Burmese army has regained more than 20 strategic locations from the Myanmar National…

Residents, high school students protest poisonous cloud of pollution

Weiyuan County, Sichuan Province: Starting on Friday, April 10, 2015, the whole of Weiyuan County town was suffused by a cloud of poisonous gas. Many people had already exhibited symptoms…

Former Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Guo Boxiong and his wife arrested, who’s next?

Former Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Guo Boxiong and his wife arrested, who’s next?

On Saturday April 11, 2015, Boxun exclusively revealed that former Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Guo Boxiong and his wife were arrested in their home in Beijing on Friday, April…

Police fire on protesters in Guizhou Province

Police fire on protesters in Guizhou Province

(BOXUN) Laodi Village, Xuepu Township, Pu’an County, Qianxi’nan Prefecture, Guizhou Province: Villagers have been protesting for a month at the construction site of China Light and Power’s Pu’an thermal electric…

Heilongjiang Province police attack protesting coal miners

Heilongjiang Province police attack protesting coal miners

On Monday April 6, 2015, due to non-payment of back salary and heating subsidies,  several thousand Longmei Group coal miners went on strike in Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province. They went…

Chen Yunfei formally arrested on “suspicion of inciting subversion of state power.”

Chen Yunfei formally arrested on “suspicion of inciting subversion of state power.”

Boxun’s correspondent learned that because of renowned Chengdu democracy activist Chen Yunfei’s participation in a memorial ceremony for the victims of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, he was…

Couple in their 60s burn to death while resisting forced demolition of their house

Houshan’gen Village, Hengxi township, Xianju County,k Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province: The Legal Evening News has reported that a husband and wife in their 60s burned to death in their house…