Free Zhang Zhan – Speech at the Lin Zhao Freedom Award Ceremony

On February 1, 2020, Zhang Zhan boarded a high-speed train from Shanghai to Chongqing. She got off part way in Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. She was the only passenger getting off the train that night. During her 14 weeks in Wuhan, she hopped from one lodging to another around the city wherever she could find a bed. She subsisted on ramen noodles. In the 122 video clips she posted on YouTube, she spoke to shopkeepers, sanitary workers, and migrant workers, among many others. 

Persecution of Falun Gong Continues While CCP Tightens Control on PLAC: Leaked Documents

The female practitioners were sent to separate rooms where several male inmates were waiting. The guards at the labor camp gave the green light to the male inmates to do whatever they wished. After days of non-stop sexual abuse, some female practitioners died, some developed mental disorders, and some were permanently injured. Yin temporarily lost her memory and experienced mental breakdowns.

Meeting You Today Is a Blessing

After our meal, I took out a flash drive and asked Aya, “This contains information you have never seen. Will you like to see it? She said she definitely wanted a copy of the flash drive and added: “Don’t forget about me next time you have something as good as this.” I told her I definitely would not forget about her.

Three Gorges Dam: A Costly Political Project with an Uncertain Future

When Li Rui book On the Project of Three Gorges Dam was published in Hong Kong, he wrote, “I have said all I could say. My sincere heart could be seen by both the divine and mankind.” Worried about the dam’s future, he also told his granddaughter, “If the Three Gorges Dam causes major issues one day, please remember that your grandfather was always against it.”

Police Warn Against Posting Footage, Reports of Massive Flooding in China Chongqing

<!–[CDATA[ Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia Authorities in flood-hit southwestern China have prevented state-controlled media from reporting on the true extent of flood damage alongside Yangtze river districts in and around the megacity of Chongqing, RFA has learned. Video footage posted to social media by residents near Chongqing’s Qijiang river showed murky yellow floodwaters […]

The court in China’s Chongqing Jails WeChat Foreign News Service Moderator

Wong Lok-to and Xiao An | Radio Free Asia Authorities in the southwestern megacity of Chongqing have jailed the moderator of a social media news chat group bringing verified news from overseas to a Chinese audience, RFA has learned. Liu Pengfei, who ran the Global Report news service on the popular social media app WeChat, among other […]

Crackdown in Beijing: ‘Using Twitter is more dangerous than street demonstrations’

Oiwan Lam  |  Global voice Authorities in Beijing have launched a nationwide crackdown on mainland Chinese Twitter users. The December 5 release of 42 testimonies collected by China Change, a Chinese human rights advocacy site, details the ordeals of hundreds of Twitter users who have been detained and interrogated by national security police officers since September […]