Chinese Police Order Residents to Hand Over Passports ‘Until After the Pandemic’
Xia sees the current exodus as the peak of a wave of migration that began around five years ago, and cited recent news events like the woman found chained by the neck in the eastern province of Jiangsu as catalysts, along with the pandemic.
Provinces Across China Work to Implement Internet Restrictions
The Zhejiang Provincial Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission announced on February 28 that it would carry out licensing work for Internet religious information services across the province. Training will begin in March.
Go Sherab Gyatso: Prominent Tibetan Monk Tortured in Jail
He was first arrested in 1998, as he refused to participate in forced political indoctrination imposed on Buddhist monks in Sichuan, and sentenced to three and a half years in jail. He was abused in prison and contracted chronic lung disease.
Industry Behind Child Trafficking in China Involves Organ Harvesting: Activist
while some parents tried to give their female babies to Buddhist nunneries to give the child a chance of survival.
China’s Evergrande Crisis Could Lead to a Massive Domino Effect in Real Estate
Secondly, Evergrande owed huge amounts of money to construction companies. By August 2020, Evergrande had 8,441 upstream and downstream partners, among which a majority of them had payments defaulted on by Evergrande. Evergrande used its own unsecured short-term bills — also known as commercial bills — to pay these debts. As found in Evergrande’s financial report, “trade payables and other payables amounted to 951.133 billion RMB or 147.21 billion USD” as of June 30, 2021.
Guangdong Dissident Poet Commits Suicide Amid Ongoing Police Surveillance
“This deterioration in his living circumstances made him desperate,” Li Xuewen said. “The stroke had left him disabled, and yet he was still being treated as a stability maintenance target. He wrote in his suicide note that he had no power to stand up to the CCP.”
The Story of Two Falun Gong Shopkeepers
Meanwhile, courts in China continue to try persons suspected of being Falun Gong practitioners. On May 31, 2021, the Intermediate People’s Court of Tongling, a prefecture-level city in Anhui province, sentenced three defendants called Rao, Chen and Zhou to suspended jail sentences, two years and a half for Rao and Chen and eight months for Zhou.
Former Township Head Travels Hundreds of Miles to Quit the Chinese Communist Party
Two days after the 2021 Chinese New Year, an older man hurried into my clinic. His surname is Zhang and he’d flown in from Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, which is 1,000 kilometers or 620 miles away. He said he was visiting relatives in my city, but the main reason he traveled here was for me to help him quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.
Massive Testing, Partial Lockdown in China’s Guangzhou City as COVID-19 Surges
Locals have emptied the shelves at local markets of vegetables and other staples, Chen said, which left him with few options. He added that all residents in his district were tested for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19, on June 4.
Chinese Lawyers Face Persecution for Defending Rights
“The government suspended or revoked the business licenses or law licenses of some lawyers who took on sensitive cases, such as defending pro-democracy dissidents, house-church activists, Falun Gong practitioners, or government critics. Authorities used the annual licensing review process administered by the All China Lawyers Association to withhold or delay the renewal of professional lawyers’ licenses.”