Concerns Grow For Taiwan Activist Serving Jail Term in China

by Editor | Mar 22, 2019 | Arrests and Kangaroo Trials, Human rights, Taiwan

Ng Yik-tung, Sing Man and Han Jie | Radio Free Asia Two years after his initial ‘disappearance’ on March 19, 2017, Taiwan rights activist Lee Ming-cheh has endured ill-treatment and is suffering declining health in prison, a rights group...

China Jails Three Activists For Video ‘Mocking’ President Xi Jinping

by Editor | Jan 11, 2019 | Arrests and Kangaroo Trials, Communist Regime

Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia Authorities in the Chinese capital have sentenced citizen journalist Ding Lingjie and two petitioners to jail for making a video ‘mocking’ President Xi Jinping during a holiday season crackdown on dissent.Ding was tried...

Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang to appear in court on Dec 26, after 3 years of detention – wife

by Editor | Dec 24, 2018 | Arrests and Kangaroo Trials, Communist Regime

Holmes Chan | Hong Kong Free Press Authorities in mainland China will start the trial of detained human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang on the morning of December 26, according to his wife Li Wenzu. The announcement came three years after Wang was detained in the “709...

The Cop and the Showgirl, or How China’s Newest Tool of Repression Targets the Rich and Powerful

by Editor | Nov 6, 2018 | Arrests and Kangaroo Trials, Communist Regime

Karen Kao | Global Voices “The Cop and the Showgirl” sounds like the title of a hard-boiled detective novel. Or a screwball comedy with lots of feathered costumes. But this story is about Meng Hongwei, the supercop, and Fan Bingbing, the starlet—the most famous...

Shanghai Court Hands Suspended Jail Term to VPN Software Developer

by Editor | Oct 16, 2018 | Arrests and Kangaroo Trials, Censorship

Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia A court in Shanghai has handed a suspended jail term and a fine to a developer who wrote software enabling people to get around the complex system of filters, blocks, and human censorship known as the Great Firewall, RFA has learned. The...

China’s State Media Publish ‘Confessions’ of Detained Journalist Chen Jieren

by Editor | Aug 17, 2018 | Arrests and Kangaroo Trials, Censorship

Yang Fan | Radio Free Asia China’s state-run media have launched a blistering attack on prominent freelance journalist Chen Jieren, who was detained last month on suspicion of “fraud” and running an “illegal business.” State news agency...