Chinese Blogger Arrested for Online Comments

Oiwan Lam  |  Global Voices. Well-known Chinese blogger and Twitter commenter Wu Bin (@xuicai1911 @秀才江湖) was arrested by Shenzhen national security police on April 27 for making online comments, according to a report from Canyu, a news site focusing on Chinese civic rights. Wu’s friend Wang Aizhong sounded the alarm on Twitter shortly thereafter: “@xiucai1911 just called and said […]

China’s Rebel Village Still Under Close Surveillance, Cut Off From World

Wong Lok-to  |  Radio Free Asia More than a year after a police raid ended months of daily demonstrations, the rebel Chinese village of Wukan is under a security cordon six or seven levels deep, with residents under constant surveillance from security cameras, an activist told RFA on Thursday. The village in southern China’s Guangdong […]

No More Protests in China’s Rebel Village, One Month After Crackdown

Wong Lok-to  |  Radio Free Asia Nearly one month after riot police fired tear-gas and rubber bullets in a crackdown on months of protests in the rebel village of Wukan, the village remains under tight security, with no more protests in sight, residents told RFA. Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are keeping […]

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 […]

Chinese Police Press Father in Effort to Silence Exiled Wukan Activist Son

Koh Fung  |  Radio Free Asia Police in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have tried to silence an exiled leader of the rebel village of Wukan by making his detained father persuade him by telephone to stop his activism. Zhuang Liehong, who lives in New York after fleeing China for the United States in […]

‘Foreign Forces’ Blamed for Protests in Southern China

James Burke  |  Vision Times “Foreign forces” are getting the blame for weeks of protests that ended with a violent police crackdown against angry locals in a fishing village in China’s southern Guangdong Province. The villagers in Wukan were protesting over the jailing of a local leader who had earlier led protest efforts against land […]

In China, Villagers Protest Trial as Their Chief Is Sentenced For Bribery

Eva Fu  |  Epoch Times Head of Wukan was planning protest about the taking of villagers’ land The democratically elected village chief of Wukan was sentenced to over three years in prison on Sep. 8, amidst protests from villagers. The Chinese coastal village of Wukan in southern Guangdong Province has become a symbol of resistance because […]

Founder of Protest Reporting Outlet Goes Missing in China

Oiwan Lam |  Global Voices Lu Yuyu, founder of citizen media outlet Not in the News has been missing since June 15, along with his girlfriend. The citizen news outlet has been reporting and distributing news of mass demonstrations in China via the Twitter account @wickedonnaa, Blogspot and YouTube since 2013. The news team also […]