The “White-haired Movement” (白发运动, Báifà Yùndòng) refers to protests led by elderly and retired workers in Wuhan and Dalian in February 2023, and in Guangzhou in January 2023. The protesters were objecting to medical insurance...
There have been renewed calls for the release of journalist and feminist activist Huang Xueqin and labor-rights activist Wang Jianbing, who have now spent over 500 days in detention without trial. Since being detained in...
“Voices of Protest” is a special edition of CDT’s monthly “Voices of…” video series. This 15-minute video is a compilation of video footage, images, and audio from the large, spontaneous public protests that broke out in a...
On Thursday, a deadly fire broke out in a predominantly-Uyghur residential building under COVID-19 lockdown in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital, and kicked off a series of nationwide protests calling for an end to China’s restrictive...
China announced its first COVID deaths since the end of the Shanghai lockdown in May. Beijing municipal health officials reported that three people in the capital died of coronavirus over the weekend. The deaths come amidst...
Attempts to contain a coronavirus outbreak in Guangzhou have sparked mild unrest among those under lockdown. The city in Guangdong Province has logged over 40,000 cases since October but hovers on the edge of lockdown: some...
The following translation is an account of activist Lu Yuyu’s recent expulsion from Guangzhou. In 2017, Lu, a citizen journalist who documented labor unrest across China on the “Not News” (非新聞) blog and @wickedonnaa Twitter...
Guangzhou hosted 800 legal professionals from 57 countries at the Global Lawyers Forum this week. The event partly coincided with International Human Rights Day on Tuesday, which the E.U. delegation to China marked by...
Three social workers were detained last week in police raids as China’s crackdown on labor...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Last week, according to the U.S. government-backed Radio Free Asia, domestic security officers in...
Chen Wenying, the mother of jailed labor activist Zeng Feiyang, is taking the rare action of suing...
Award-winning writer and independent film producer David Bandurski is the editor of the China...
A Guangzhou court has sentenced three activists—a former rights lawyer, editor, and university...
China is experiencing a sharp increase in labor unrest as the country’s economy continues to...
China Labour Bulletin reports that several workers’ rights leaders have recently been...
South China Morning Post’s Mimi Lau reports allegations of violence outside a prominent...
Ou Shaokun, a Guangzhou-based anti-corruption activist known for his work campaigning against...
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