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More than 10,000 cab drivers on strike in Guangzhou
On Wednesday October 15, 2014, the day the Guangzhou Autumn Trade Fair opened, more than 10,000 cab drivers from the city’s three largest taxi companies (Guangjun, Traffic, and Baiyun Taxi)…
Hong Kong: Police officers must face justice for attack on protester
Hong Kong police officers involved in the beating and kicking of a detained pro-democracy protester on Wednesday must face justice, Amnesty International said. Local TV news footage shows social worker…
Family kidnapped so its house could be demolished
(China News Service) Daye City, Lingxiang Township, Hubei Province: One month ago, Wu Yongdang’s house was demolished after he, his brother and their 80-year-old mother were kidnapped and held in…
Apartment owners protest “chaotic” fee collection
Xingtai City, Hebei Province: On Saturday, Oct. 11, hundreds of apartment owners accused the developer of the Anlian Fengdu Berlin residential area of violating housing exchange rules and chaotically collecting…
After two years of resistance, Jinan government uproots peach trees
Tianjia Village, Sun Township, Gaoxin District, Jinan City, Shandong Province: On October 10, 2014 the Jinan Gaoxin District government sent 40 city police officers and 600 officials to forcibly confiscate…
Hundreds of underpaid workers confined to their factory in Shenzhen
Flare Star Science and Technology Corporation in Shenzhen owes its workers unpaid wages. This triggered strikes on October 8 and 9. Workers demanded a raise in pay. The local government…
Police arrest China Justice and Anti-Corruption Net founder Cheng Kangming
Boxun has learned that on Thursday October 9, 2014, Cheng Kangming, the founder of citizens’ anti-corruption website China Justice and Anti-Corruption Net, was arrested by the Qingtian County, Lishui City,…
Ilham Tohti appeal material delivered to Xinjiang Higher People’s Court
On October 23, 2014, former Nationalities University professor and Uighur Online founder Ilham Tohti was sentenced by the Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court to life imprisonment for the crime of secession.…
Communal Financial Fund Collapses, Thousands Protest and Demand Protection of Rights
Handan City, Hebei Province communal financial fund collapses, involving more than 30 family enterprises, more than ¥10 billion in capital lost. On Wednesday October 8, 2014, Golden Century, Tall Mountain…
Communist regime holds two-year-old child in police station for nine hours
Boxun has learned that on Wednesday October 8, 2014 at 4 p.m. poet Wang Zang’s two-year-old daughter was brought by police to Beijing’s Tongzhou District Songzhuang [Artist Village] police station.…
Wang Mo and others are jailed in Guangzhou
On the night of Friday October 3, 2014, because of supporting the Hong Kong Occupy Central movement in Guangzhou’s Zengcheng District Xintang Township, activists Xie Wenfei, Wang Mo and Sun…
Songzhuang artist Zhui Hun, Lü Shang are detained
Wang Zang’s wife and child are held in police station Boxun has learned that on the evening of Wednesday October 8, 2014 at approximately 6 p.m., in Beijing Tongzhou District…
