Many House Churches Under Government Crackdown

ChinaAid Xuchang, Henan—The crackdown on Christian house churches in mainland China is becoming more ferocious. Chinese authorities have been checking Christian church venues on a large scale and shutting many down. The Liaoning Province government in northeastern China launched a campaign against venues for Christian gatherings; three gathering venues of Daoen Church located in Xuzhou, […]

China in Nationwide Security Crackdown During New Silk Road Forum

Qiao Long, Gao Shan and Wong Si-lam  |  Radio Free Asia China has ordered businesses to close and carried out mass detentions of petitioners and rights activists in a nationwide security operation during its “New Silk Road” forum in Beijing. As nearly 30 heads of state gathered in Beijing for President Xi Jinping’s “Belt and […]

Rights Lawyer Complains to Mayor Over ‘Cultural Revolution’ Treatment of Colleagues

Ng Yik-tung, Sing Man and Lam Kwok-lap  |  Radio Free Asia  A prominent Chinese lawyer has made a complaint to Beijing’s mayoral hotline about a nationwide police operation targeting the country’s human rights lawyers beginning on July 9, 2015, likening it to the political violence of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Liu Xiaoyuan, a partner at […]

Cracks in China’s Crackdown

James Burke  |  Vision Times The state crackdown on the spiritual practice of Falun Gong has been recognized by scholars as one of the worst instances of religious persecution in China since the Cultural Revolution*. Jiang Zemin, past leader of the Chinese Communist Party, ordered the large-scale clampdown on the popular meditation practice in 1999. […]

China’s Crackdown on ‘Vote-Buying’ Likely The Result of Factional Warfare: Analysts

Lee Lai and Gao Shan  |  Radio Free Asia A decision by China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) to expel 45 members for vote-buying and bribery is more closely linked to factional infighting than a genuine attempt to weed out corruption in the rubber-stamp parliament, analysts said on Wednesday. The NPC on Tuesday disqualified 45 legislators from […]

Activists Openly Mark Tiananmen Crackdown on China’s Streets

Qiao Long and Hai Nan  |  Radio Free Asia As the ruling Chinese Communist Party steps up security measures targeting dissidents ahead of the politically sensitive anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, a handful of rights activists are traveling around the country displaying placards mourning those who died in the crackdown. Beijing-based activist […]

China Detains Two Over ‘1989’ Tiananmen Crackdown Labels on Spirits

Gao Shan and Qiao Long  |  Radio Free Asia Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have detained two people who tried to sell and promote limited-edition bottles of liquor commemorating the bloody military crackdown on the student-led democracy movement of 1989. Teahouse proprietor Fu Hailu and poet Ma Qing were taken away by police […]

Banner at Official Conference in China Calls for Crackdown on Press

Frank Fang  |  Epoch Times Security officials in the county of Hengshan, Shanxi Province, were much more direct than is typically expected about their designs on the news media in China— than would typically be expected, at a forum on Feb. 1: They hung a banner across the wall declaring the need to “strike hard against […]