Tuidang News
Localist Edward Leung Sentenced to Six Years in Jail Over Mong Kok Unrest Participation
Karen Cheung | Hong Kong Free Press Localist Edward Leung has been sentenced to six years behind bars in connection with rioting over the Mong Kok unrest in 2016. Leung and four others faced trial for their involvement in the protests that broke out during Lunar New...
Former Police Chief of China’s Kunming City Sentenced to 11 Years for Corruption
Frank Fang | Epoch Times A former rising cadre of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who was appointed as deputy head of a major city police station at the age of 35, recently received a heavy prison sentence for his corruption charges. However, he has committed a...
Who are China’s political prisoners? A human rights assessment, 29 years after Tiananmen
Pong Lai | Global Voices On June 4, 1989, 29 years ago, Chinese army forces repeatedly opened fire on a student-led movement demanding freedom of expression and political reform away from corruption and single-party rule. At the time, the Chinese Red Cross estimated...
China Slaps Prominent Human Rights Lawyer With Effective Travel Ban
Gao Feng and Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have refused to issue a passport to a prominent human rights lawyer detained in a recent crackdown, effectively banning her from leaving the country. Human rights...
Watch Out for China, Not Russia, Says Former U.S. Secretary of State
VISION TIMES According to former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Americans give Russia too much credit when it comes to thinking about an international rivalry. Now 81, Albright served under the Clinton administration in the 1990s. In an interview with...
China Detains 17 Protestant Christians Who Prayed For Tiananmen Massacre Victims
Qiao Long and Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia Police in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has detained 17 Christians after they gathered for memorial prayers for the victims of the massacre that ended the 1989 student-led protests on Beijing's Tiananmen...
Tiananmen Mothers Write to Chinese President Slamming ‘Crime Against Humanity’
Qiao Long and Wen Yuqing | Radio Free Asia The relatives of those killed when China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) put a bloody end to weeks of student-led democracy protests on Beijing's Tiananmen Square 29 years ago have called on Chinese President Xi Jinping to...
China Investigates 12 Judicial Officers in a Month. They Share One Crime in Common
Annie Wu | Epoch Times The Chinese Communist Party has embarked on an anti-corruption sweep of its judicial system. From mid-April to mid-May, the Party has announced internal investigations into 12 court presidents and procurator-generals—who head local...
China Bans People From Flights, Trains Over ‘Poor Social Credit’
Yang Fan | Radio Free Asia China's social credit system gathered pace on Friday with fresh announcements of sanctions for people and companies accused of fiddling taxes, running afoul of financial market reporting requirements and misbehaving as airline passengers....
