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Police carry knives and toxic gas to confiscate land
Nanpo Village, Shouyang Township, Longxi County, Gansu Province: Residents of Nanpo Village say that on Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, the local government dispatched more than 1,000 policemen and hired thugs…
Criminal charges against human rights lawyer filed with prosecutor
Renowned human rights defense lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, jailed since May for attending an event commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, has has been formally charged with the crimes of separatism…
8000 teachers went on strike
Zhaodong City, Heilongjiang Province: On Friday,Nov. 14 and Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014, more than 1,000 teachers gathered at the municipal government headquarters to protest low salaries, missing payments to their…
Village Communist Party secretary detains journalist investigating him
Gucheng Village, Beidaihe Township, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province: Li Jizhou, Party secretary of Gucheng Village, detained investigative journalist Yin Yusheng for several hours on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Yin was insulted,…
Xu Dong develops software for circumventing the Great Firewall, arrested for crime of “creating a disturbance.”
Boxun has learned that a native of Longxi City in Gansu Province, Beijing IT personage Xu Dong, announced on Twitter his support of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central and developed software…
Police use house arrest to starve activist and her husband
Human rights activist Ni Yulan and her husband, Dong Jiqin, have been confined to their apartment in Beijing by police and are said to have had no food for three…
Petitioner Lu Dongli arrested for so-called “spying”
Boxun has learned that Shaanxi Province petitioner Lu Dongli was arrested by the Beijing, Fengtai District police on Tuesday, Nov. 11. According to sources, Lu’s alleged crime was illegal possession…
Gao Yu pre-trial conference held Sunday November 17
From left to right: Zhang Yaojie, Gu Chuan, Ye Kuangzheng, Gao Yu, Yu Haocheng, Tie Liu, Jiao Guobiao, Han Sanzhou dining together in Fangzhuang District, January 26, 2011. Boxun’s reporter…
Appeal of Uighur scholar’s life sentence to be heard in closed court
Boxun has learned from Ilham Tohti’s attorney, Liu Xiaoyuan, that the Xinjiang Higher People’s Court has decided to hear in secret Tohti’s appeal of a life sentence, and without the…
Police officer shoots to death motorcycle taxi driver
(BOXUN) Yongtai New Village, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province: Police shot and killed a motorcycle taxi driver after he tried to flee from a police roadblock. At approximately 9 a.m. on…
China quietly suffering its own version of a subprime loan crisis
The National Audit Office said that local government debt now exceeds ¥3.85 trillion. But the real amount may be more than ¥12 trillion. In the face of a continued economic…
Government posters portray Muslims as terrorists
Boxun exclusive: Rcently, public places in Guangxi Province, such as schools, hospitals, markets, railway stations and airports, have been displaying counter-terrorism propaganda posters. Most identify people with Muslim traits as…
