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China Train Station Attackers May Have Acted ‘in Desperation’
(RFA) Chinese police officers investigate the site of the violent attack at the Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province, March 2, 2014. A group of knife-wielding attackers who went on…
Doctor Says Cao Shunli on Life Support, Family Made to Sign Medical Parole
February 28, 2014 Rights activist Liu Xiaofang (刘晓芳) who visited Cao Shunli (曹顺利) at the 309 Military Hospital told HRIC that a Dr. Su there said that Cao is…
CHINA : Media Told to Censor RWB’s World Press Freedom Index
As soon as Reporters Without Borders released its annual World Press Freedom Index this week, the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda department issued a directive banning its publication and dissemination. “Although…
Vincent Wu Will Be Trailed on February 10
The American businessman Vincent Wu will be trialed on Feb. 10 in Guangzhou. Vincent Wu is believed to be charged wrongfully, because his competitors bribed the police. Chinese authorities do…
China: Xu Zhiyong Four Years Jail Sentence “Shameful”
The jailing of prominent Chinese legal scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong is a travesty and he shouldbe released immediately, said Amnesty International. A court in Beijing sentenced XuZhiyong to four…
China Censors Reports About Elite’s Hidden Funds
After the publication in several international medias of revelations about the money Chinese elites hide in offshore taxe havens, the Monde, Guardian, Global Mail, El Pais and Süddeutsche Zeitung websites…
China: Hypocritical Crackdown on Anti-Corruption Campaigners
The Chinese authorities must immediately release prominent activist Xu Zhiyong, whose trial is due to start in Beijing on Wednesday, Amnesty International said. Xu Zhiyong wrote an article in May…
Hundreds of Africans Detained in Guangzhou, China
Boxun reports: In the detention center YueXiu, in Guangzhou, about 70 African black people are detained for an unkown period. They are held because they stayed in China after their visas expired.…
Reporters Without Borders: Uyghur Citizen-Journalist Ilham Tohti Detained Again
Reporters Without Borders is worried about Uyghur academic and citizen-journalist Ilham Tohti, who was arrested at his Beijing home on 15 January and has been held at an unknown location ever…
Seniors Committing Suicide to Avoid Being a Burden on Their Children
According to a news report, in China, in a village of the Hunan Province, 10 elderly people have committed suicide during the past 20 years. They chose to end their…
Drivers Confessed: Zhou Yongkang Murdered His Ex-Wife
The former security Caesar Zhou Yongkang’s two former drivers confessed that Guo Yongxiang instructed them to assasinate Zhou’s ex-wife by framing a car accident, around year 2000. Guo received the…
Statement on the Abolition of Re-education Through Labour (RTL) and Related Problems by Chinese Lawyers for the Protection of Human Rights
On 15 November 2013, in its ‘CCP Central Committee Resolution Concerning Some Major Issues in Comprehensively Deepening Reform,’ debated and passed at the 18thCongress Third Plenary Meeting, the CCP announced…
