Pro-democracy Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai is currently standing trial for conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiracy to publish seditious materials. Amid mass protests in the city in 2019, Lai did travel to...
In the days following former premier Li Keqiang’s death in late October of 2023, mourners left hundreds of bouquets at his childhood home in Hefei, Anhui and in various public places in Zhengzhou, Henan, where he had served as...
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s sudden death last Friday in an Arctic prison was scarcely mentioned by Chinese state or commercial media, and what coverage there is has simply echoed Russian government talking points....
Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) is a monumental figure in modern Chinese history. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate died in custody in a Shenyang hospital in 2017 while being treated for liver cancer. A prolific writer, Liu first rose...
Chinese police have dramatically increased their use of house arrest during Xi Jinping’s ten years in power according to the new report “Home as Prison: The Increasing use of House Arrest in China” by Safeguard Defenders....
Sun Dawu has been sentenced to prison for 18 years and fined 3.11 million yuan for “gathering a crowd to storm state institutions, obstructing public service, picking quarrels and provoking troubles, disrupting production and...
Sun Dawu, the entrepreneurial founder of the Dawu Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Group, famed equally for his clear-eyed political commentary as for his business acumen, is the latest prominent Chinese public figure to be...
The CDT Censorship Digest is a monthly round-up of censored speech, propaganda developments, and rights defense in China. We have selected and adapted the most relevant and interesting stories for our English readers. We...
This week brought both the first anniversary of the death of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, and...
At The Nation, Rian Thum and Jeffrey Wasserstrom write that people in the West "should pay...
In a show of solidarity with writer Liu Xia, who is living under official detention in her...
Since the death of imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo last July, the extra-legal house...
“Quintessential rights lawyer” Wang Quanzhang was one of hundreds taken in the...
CDT Chinese editors selected their 10 top news stories of 2017, which were published on the...
As 2017 comes to a close, CDT editors have looked back at coverage of China over the past year and...
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short...
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
Liu Xia, the widow of recently deceased activist Liu Xiaobo, has been living under house arrest...
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