Vatican’s China Moves Stun Chinese Catholics

James Burke  |  Vision Times Not long after taking power in China, the officially atheist Chinese Communist Party (CCP) broke off ties with the Vatican, but now, ongoing back-room negotiations between officials from the Holy See and Beijing could change that, much to disillusionment of many Chinese Catholics. As part of the Vatican’s 4-year-long efforts […]

Nobel Peace Prize Nomination For Hong Kong Protest Leaders Angers Beijing

Lam Kwok-lap and Fok Leung-kiu  |  Radio Free Asia China’s foreign ministry hit out on Friday at the nomination of three former student leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 pro-democracy movement for the Nobel Peace Prize, calling on member of the U.S. Congress to “stop meddling” in its internal affairs. Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Chris […]

Remembering Tiananmen Square, 28 Years Later

VOA News WASHINGTON — Rights activists in Hong Kong are set to commemorate the anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square protests, once again calling on China to revise its official explanation of the event. Sunday marks 28 years since Chinese tanks rolled into crowds of demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, opening fire and killing hundreds of pro-democracy activists. […]

More Than 20 Veterans Behind Bars, 28 Years After Tiananmen Massacre

Yang Fan and Qiao Long and by Hai Nan  |  Radio Free Asia Twenty-eight years after People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops put an end to weeks of student-led pro-democracy protests on Tiananmen Square with tanks and machine guns, more than 20 dissidents remain in jail for campaigning over the massacre, rights activists said ahead of […]

Hong Kong Moves Ahead With Trial of Nine Pro-Democracy Protesters

Lam Kwok-lap and by Ding Wenqi  |  Radio Free Asia Nine prominent figures of Hong Kong’s 2014 Occupy Central pro-democracy movement warned of possible violations of their civil rights as their trial date was set for June 15, more than two years after the event. The former protest leaders will face charges of incitement to […]

Chinese Blogger Arrested for Online Comments

Oiwan Lam  |  Global Voices. Well-known Chinese blogger and Twitter commenter Wu Bin (@xuicai1911 @秀才江湖) was arrested by Shenzhen national security police on April 27 for making online comments, according to a report from Canyu, a news site focusing on Chinese civic rights. Wu’s friend Wang Aizhong sounded the alarm on Twitter shortly thereafter: “@xiucai1911 just called and said […]

Human Rights in Hong Kong at Lowest Point Since 1997 Handover: Amnesty

Lam Kwok-lap  |  Radio Free Asia Human rights in Hong Kong deteriorated to their lowest point ever last year, according to an annual report by Amnesty International. Authorities in the former British colony “failed on many fronts” to protect the city’s traditional rights and freedoms, which are now at their lowest ebb since the 1997 […]

China to Try Tiananmen Protest Veteran After Months of Delay: Lawyer

Hai Nan  |  Radio Free Asia Chen Yunfei, a veteran rights activist in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan who was detained after visiting the grave of a Tiananmen massacre victim in 2015, will stand trial on Dec. 26 on public order charges following repeated delays to his case. Former Tiananmen Square protester Chen, 48, […]

Chinese Dissent in an Age of Social Media

Matthew Robertson  |  Epoch Times Democracy activist Li Hongkuan ran a popular email newsletter in the 1990s, and now uses the app WeChat to the same end NEW YORK—Nearly 20 years ago, newspaper headlines were wondering whether the internet was going to free China. Exhibit A was Li Hongkuan, a highly self-confident and fast-talking democracy activist […]