Ahead of Momentous Milestone of 300 Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese Citizens Share Their Stories on Why They Quit

Ahead of Momentous Milestone of 300 Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese Citizens Share Their Stories on Why They Quit

Sunny Chao  |  Epoch Times The global movement of Chinese people renouncing their ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Tuidang,  reached an important milestone last month. On March 24, the number of Chinese who publicly revoked their membership in  the CCP or its affiliated organizations reached 300 million. For comparison, the Chinese Communist Party currently […]

Remembering Tiananmen Square, 28 Years Later

VOA News WASHINGTON — Rights activists in Hong Kong are set to commemorate the anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square protests, once again calling on China to revise its official explanation of the event. Sunday marks 28 years since Chinese tanks rolled into crowds of demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, opening fire and killing hundreds of pro-democracy activists. […]

More Than 20 Veterans Behind Bars, 28 Years After Tiananmen Massacre

Yang Fan and Qiao Long and by Hai Nan  |  Radio Free Asia Twenty-eight years after People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops put an end to weeks of student-led pro-democracy protests on Tiananmen Square with tanks and machine guns, more than 20 dissidents remain in jail for campaigning over the massacre, rights activists said ahead of […]

China Jails Tiananmen Protest Veteran For Four Years After Grave Visit

Qiao Long  |  Radio Free Asia A court in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Friday handed down a four-year jail term to a veteran rights activist detained after visiting the grave of a 1989 Tiananmen massacre victim in 2015, finding him guilty of a public order offense. The Wuhou District People’s Court in […]

Hong Kong’s Pan-Democrats to Boycott Chinese National Day Party

Lam Kwok-lap  |  Radio Free Asia Pan-democratic politicians in Hong Kong didn’t appear at official party in honor of China’s National Day on Saturday, they told Radio Free Asia (RFA). The city’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying invited 4,000 guests, including senior government officials and lawmakers, to join him for a reception marking the 67th anniversary […]

The Days When Beijing Was Free of Communist Rule

Chen Gang  | Epoch Times This narrative, edited and abridged, is a recollection of the open yet orderly atmosphere that characterized three weeks in May 1989 when Beijing enjoyed a brief respite from Party control. Author Chen Gang, a college student during the iconic events, recalls his personal experience from the student demonstrations that involved […]

Tens of Thousands Gather in Hong Kong to Mark Tiananmen Massacre

Wong Lok-to  |  Radio Free Asia More than 100,000 people gathered in Hong Kong on Saturday to mark the 27th anniversary of a military massacre that put a bloody end to the 1989 democracy movement on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, although cracks were beginning to appear in the city’s pro-democracy camp. Organizers of the event, which […]

As Tiananmen Anniversary Nears, June 4 Disappears from the China’s Web

Xin Lin and Yang Fan  |  Radio Free Asia China’s Internet giant Baidu.com is blocking keyword searches linked to the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests as Beijing attempts to throttle discussion ahead the 27th anniversary of the bloody military crackdown on the pro-democracy demonstrations. The move follows a period of relative freedom to search […]

China’s Tibetan Scholar Criticized China’s Tibet Policy

TGS and NNL  |  Chinascope [Editor’s Note: Jambey Gyatso, a veteran Tibetan scholar in China published two articles to criticize two Chinese officials, Ye Xiaowen, the former Director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA), and Zhu Weiqun  Director of the Ethnic and Religious Commission of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National […]