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Enough! Villagers surround and beat policeman
Miaodaokou Village, Anguo Township, Pei County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province: Local government sold village land without permission to a solar energy power plant. Because the offer of compensation was too…
Residents of “cancer village” protest air, water pollution
Youlian Village, Dongsheng Temple, Wulate Banner, Bayanzhouer City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: Due to polluted water and air caused by Eastern Mining Corporation – 500 times the allowable limit – …
Police seize corpse of man killed in a 3 a.m. demolition
Lingbi County, Suqian City, Anhui Province: On Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014, a man named Zheng Xueqiang was killed during the demolition at 3 a.m. of the Wenzhou Shopping Center. The…
Apartment owners protest building violations
Yanlan District, Leshan City, Sichuan Province: More than 100 apartment owners gathered at the Leshan municipal government headquarters on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. They were protesting numerous violations of the…
Court upholds life sentence for Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti
Renowned Uighur scholar and former university professor Ilham Tohti’s appeal of a life sentence for the crime of separatism (“splitting the Motherland”) has been unsuccessful. The verdict was issued in…
Six nurses and one manager killed
Seven people, including six nurses, were stabbed to death at a hospital dormitory in northern China on Thursday (Nov. 20) , the official Xinhua news agency reported, the latest in…
Protesting villagers seize construction equipment
Nashou Village, Wushi Township, Leizhou City, Guangdong Province: After developers and local government confiscated 589 mu of land to build a coal-fired power plant, villagers began protesting. On the morning of…
Home owners protest and are beaten, injured and arrested
China Yangqi Poly Group developed a pedestrian walkway in Huanggang City, Hubei Province. The developers falsely advertised, and after selling the shops didn’t attract business or advertise, double sold property…
Family arrested for protesting son’s murder at school
Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, Dujiangyan Vocational School: At 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014, a student stabbed a 16-year-old boarding classmate. The wounded student ran to his dormitory and…
Apartment owners beaten for refusing to vacate
Seven Li River District West Railway Station, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province: Because the government offered such low compensation for their apartments, only two residents out of 126 signed contracts agreeing…
Imprisoned victim of forced demolition beaten to death
Fuzhou City, Fujian Province: Boxun has learned that on the evening of October 4, 2014, the family of Tang Yuanyu received a text message from Fuzhou Hospital notifying them that…
Workers in three provinces go on strike on the same day
For a variety of reasons – poor benefits, late payment of salaries, relocation without compensation – workers in six factories and one school in Guangdong Province, Jiangsu Province, Shanghai and…
