Joyce Huang | Voice of America A court in Beijing Tuesday gave Chinese property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang, who once referred to China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, as a “clown,” an 18-year prison sentence and a fine of $620,000 after finding him guilty of corruption, bribery,...
Qiao Long and Lau Siu-fung | Radio Free Asia Property tycoon Ren Zhiqiang, who was detained and expelled from the ruling Chinese Communist Party after penning an article highly critical of general secretary Xi Jinping, was planning to plead not guilty at his trial on...
VISION TIMES The detention of a China-born Australian citizen has further revealed Chinese state security’s secret detention system reportedly used to disappear thousands of people. Mid-last month business journalist Cheng Lei, 45, vanished from her usual place on...
Gao Feng | Radio Free Asia Authorities in the Chinese capital have detained an outspoken law professor who called for political reforms. Xu Zhangrun, law professor at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University, was taken away by police on Monday morning, a...
Eva Fu | New Tang Dynasty A college student in China has gone incommunicado after he publicly called for the country’s ruling Communist Party to relinquish power. “Down with the Communist Party,” Zhang Wenbin, a college senior and programmer from China’s northeastern...
Man Hoi-tsan and Lu Xi | Radio Free Asia Three United Nations human rights experts have expressed “grave concern” over the fate of three human rights lawyers forcibly disappeared by the Chinese authorities after attending an...
“Quit the CCP”: The Largest Grassroots Movement in China Today
