Nine Held After Clashes Over Access to Inner Mongolia Freshwater Lake
Wong Siu-san, Wong Si-man, and Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia are holding nine people after deploying police and tear gas to crack down on protests over access to land and water on Lake Dalinur at the weekend, local residents told RFA on Monday. Ethnic Mongolian […]
China in Final Push to Eliminate Anonymous Phone Users
Yang Fan | Radio Free Asia China will begin a fresh attempt to enforce real-name-only mobile phone use starting Feb. 1, according to the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Under regulations first issued in 2013, anyone signing a new phone contract or buying an SIM card must produce a valid identity document and […]
China Rights Defenders, Dissidents Invited to German Embassy Party
Su Yitong and Pan Jiaqing | Radio Free Asia Several Chinese dissidents were invited to Germany’s Embassy in Beijing on Friday for festivities marking the Oct. 3 Day of German Unity, a move one poet praised as a rare show of support amid an intensifying crackdown on lawyers, activists and bloggers. Among the guests were […]
Chinese Court Refuses Medical Parole For Women’s Rights Activist Held For Two Years
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have refused a request for medical parole made by the husband of a prominent women’s rights activist who voiced public support for the 2014 pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, amid growing fears for her health.
Rights Activist ‘Takes Refuge’ in U.S. Embassy in Beijing: Relatives
Hai Nan | Radio Free Asia An outspoken rights activist from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong took refuge briefly in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing after being followed by state security police during a visit to seek medical treatment, her relatives told RFA. Li Biyun, who hails from Guangdong’s Shunde city, was in Beijing […]
China Tries Civil Rights Activist For Subversion, Detains Supporters
Huang Wenxun was detained around the same time as fellow New Citizens’ Movement activists Yuan Fengchu, also known as Yuan Bing, and Yuan Xiaohua, who were sentenced to three-and-a-half and four years respectively last month for “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.”
Foreign Diplomats Barred From Visiting Rights Activist in Beijing
Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia Authorities in the Chinese capital have prevented diplomats from France, Germany, Canada, and Switzerland as well as a representative from the European Union from visiting award-winning eviction activist, wheelchair-bound Ni Yulan, who has been under house arrest with no food at her Beijing home since April 13. The group of […]
Veteran Shenzhen Rights Activist Gets Three Years For 'Subversion'
<!–[CDATA[Yang Fan and Xin Lin | Radio Free Asia Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Tuesday handed down a three-year jail term for subversion to a Shenzhen-based rights activist who helped ordinary people petition the government over violations of their rights, his lawyer said. Yang Mingyu, better known by his pseudonym Yang […]