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3,000 Shenzhen residents protest construction of garbage-burning plant
Longgang District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province: The government plans to build a garbage-burning plant on a dike in the Longgang District’s Pingdi neighborhood. Local residents have been protesting for days.…
Beijing human rights activist Ni Yulan tells Boxun, “Thank you”
(Ni Yulan has been disbarred as an attorney, jailed, beaten and evicted from her home for defending victims of forced demolition. Most recently she and her husband were under house…
Villagers seize police vehicles and use them in protest
Hengshi Street, Jiugong Mountain Township, Tongshan County, Xianning City, Hubei Province: For four years, the Mengniu Milk dairy farm has dumped cow manure and corpses of cows dead from illness,…
Protesters lay on railroad tracks, close Beijing to Guangzhou line
Xinxiang City, Henan Province: Tengfei Guarantee Corporation says it doesn’t have enough money to pay what it owes investors. On Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014 more than 1,000 people gathered at…
Police throw protester out of their vehicle
Haotou Village, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province: For several years, Haotou villagers have been protesting confiscation of land without compensation. At noon on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014, police arrested many protesters.…
Police demand removal of photos and videos of arrests
Xinpin Neighborhood, Sanlun Village, Leiping Township, Daxin County, Chongzuo City, Guangxi Province: On Monday, Nov. 25, 2014 more than 400 police officers attacked villagers protesting a highway construction project. Many…
Thousands of teachers in Heilongjiang Province on strike
Shuangcheng District, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province: On Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, 6,000 teachers began protesting over more than a decade of low wages and what they say are government thefts from…
Buyers say apartments are smaller than those promised
Zhaodu New City, Handan Municipality, Hebei Province: On Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, about 3,000 angry apartment owners gathered at the Handan Municipal Communist Party Committee headquarters to protest that their…
Guo Feixiong, Sun Desheng trial to begin on Friday November 28
The trial of Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng on suspicion of the crime of “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order” will start at 9 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 28,…
Protesters set up tents, blockade office
Sanjia Village, Pianjiao Township, Yongsheng County, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province: For two years, villagers’ farmland has been flooded by water from an electrical station water storage tank and they have…
Hospital nurses go on strike
Yingzhou District, Jiangshan Township, Zhejiang Province: On Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014, more than 300 nurses went on strike to protest the acquisition of Yinzhou District Number Three Hospital, a publicly…
Middle school teachers go on strike
Jingzhou City, Hubei Provinc: From Thursday, Nov. 19, 2014 to Saturday, Nov. 22, teachers at the five following schools went on strike: Shishou City Number One Middle School, Shishou City…
