As the 30th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre Approaches, China Arbitrarily Rounds up Dissidents and Activists
In the evening of May 16, Deng Chuanbing (邓传彬) posted a picture of a “Remember 8964” wine bottle on Twitter. Father of two school children, he lives in a town in Yibin, Sichuan province. Within half an hour, local police arrived. They ringed him from outside asking him to flash the upstairs lights to prove that he was home. We don’t know what the conversation was like, but he posted on WeChat, “I caved in again, and deleted the wine bottle photo.”
New Report Details Global Impact of Grassroots Movement to Quit Chinese Communist Party
ANNIE WU | EPOCH TIMES It all began with a book. Since then, hundreds of millions have been inspired, fueling the largest grassroots movement in China since the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989. Back in November 2004, the Chinese-language Epoch Times published an unprecedented editorial series, “Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party,” that explained […]
Protests Continue in China’s Rebel Village Ahead of Leader’s Trial
Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia Thousands of residents of a rebel village in China’s southern province of Guangdong took to the streets on Tuesday ahead of the trial of their former leader on graft charges. Shouting “Give us back our Party Secretary! Release Party Secretary Lin!” the protesters surged onto the streets of Wukan […]
As the School Year Begins, Chinese Dissidents’ Children Are Left Out in the Cold
Goh Fung and Hai Nan | Radio Free Asia As millions of Chinese schoolchildren and college students were back in class at the start of the new academic year on Monday, the children of some dissidents and critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party continue to be denied access to education, activists told RFA. Grassroots […]
80,000 Citizens in Tangshan, Hebei Province Call to Prosecute Jiang Zemin
Minghui.org Nearly 80,000 residents in Tangshan, Hebei Province have signed their names in support of criminal complaints filed by Falun Gong practitioners against the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin. Among them, 45,193 signed criminal reports against Jiang, and 34,804 signed the supporting petition. Since May 2015, more than 200,000 complaints have been filed against Jiang […]
China’s Transplant Tourism Is Murder on Demand
<!–[CDATA[ Cat Rooney | Epoch Times The most important grassroots movement in the world With their tenets for daily living of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, thousands of Falun Gong practitioners from around the world, in yellow T-shirts emblazoned with “Falun Dafa is Good,” take to the streets of major U.S. cities a couple of days each year. […]