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Waste, extravagance, pollution: More than 10,000 Hui Muslims protest new county offices
Qunke Township, Hualong Hui Autonomous County, Qinghai Province: On Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014, all businesses and restaurants in the county went on strike and some 10,000 demonstrators marched to the…
Violent demolition results in a police vehicle being overturned and police detained
Conflict resulting from Xiamen city management officials violent demolition results in a police vehicle being overturned and police detained. Wuguan Village, Haicang District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province city management police…
China’s Volkswagen owners organize nationwide protest
Owners of Volkswagen Jettas say thousands of drivers in 113 cities demonstrated simultaneously on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014 against the automaker. Jetta owners drove their cars to every local dealership,…
“Foot-care” prostitution at a Wuhan university campus hotel revealed
A Beijing News reporter has revealed prostitution at the foot-care department of an on-campus hotel run by Wuchang Institute of Technology (WIT), in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Zhao Zhuobin, president of…
Rightist survivor of Mao, now 81, arrested for publishing memoir
Boxun has learned that 81-year-old-writer Tie Liu, famous as a “rightist” (see definition at end of story), has been arrested by the Beijing Public Security Bureau on suspicion of illegal…
Former Boxun reporter among those arrested in Beijing for supporting Occupy Central
On the afternoon of Thursday, October 2, 2014, police from the Fengtai district in Beijing arrested Xu Chongyang, who has sued city police many times for their persecution of him.…
Villager kills himself during forced demolition
Bamboo Village, Golden Bamboo Township, Small River District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province: At a pig farm dyke, the government requisitioned village land. The compensation it offered was too low, so…
Riot police manhandle women striking for better wages
(BOXUN) Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province: Jindong Paper Industry LLC increased salaries in all departments except one paper production department of female workers. The corporate personnel department issued a statement: “Accept…
Martial law, blackout imposed as death sentences handed out in Xinjiang
Boxun reports that on Tuesday October 13, 2014, in Tumushuke City near Bachu in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, martial law was declared and all communications cut off. It’s said that…
Villagers seize and burn to death five construction workers
Pucheng Township, Puding County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province: On Tuesday, Oct. 14, angry villagers protesting land confiscation seized eight construction workers and burned to death five of them while their…
Thousands on strike to protest government land deal in Sansui County, Guizhou Province
Guizhou Province, the Miao and Dong ethnic minority autonomous prefecture of Sansui County: On September 28, 2014, the Guizhou Province Southwest Prefecture government passed a resolution that Zhenyuan, Cengong, and…
Church cross forcibly removed, several worshippers arrested
Mabu Township, Pingyang County, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province: After defending the cross on their church for 113 days, worshipers at Xianqiao Church saw hundreds of police forcibly remove the cross…
