After being held without trial for over two years, Australian writer Yang Hengjun was tried on murky espionage charges in Beijing on Thursday, March 27. If convicted (fewer than .1% of trials end in acquittal), Yang faces at...
Beijing-based publisher and film producer Geng Xiaonan was detained along with her husband and business partner Qin Chen on September 9 for suspected "illegal business operations." Geng had been an outspoken advocate...
Two years into the escalated crackdown on rights lawyers that began on "Black Friday" in...
Last week, senior staff at the reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu were replaced by its supervising...
Following his trial on December 14, rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang was given a three-year suspended...
After 19 months of detention, the trial of rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang on Monday lasted three hours....
For ChinaFile, David Bandurski writes about the current status of journalism in China and Xi...
Beijing authorities have again delayed the trial of rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, 16 months after his...
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) provides an update on the status of several of the lawyers...
The Associated Press’ Christopher Bodeen provides an update on journalist Gao Yu’s...
South China Morning Post’s Verna Yu reports deepening fears for the health of imprisoned...
The State Council Information Office today released a white paper titled “Progress in China’s Human Rights in 2014,” the twelfth such report since its 45,000 word tome in 1991. The paper’s introduction...
Civil rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang was detained in May 2014 after attending a gathering to mark the...
Journalist Gao Yu has filed an appeal against her seven-year sentence for leaking state secrets,...
71-year-old journalist Gao Yu was sentenced to seven years in prison on Friday for leaking an...
Veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who was detained almost a year ago and tried in November for...
At Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Joanna Chiu reports Chinese students’ reactions to a spate of...
China’s recent, sweeping assertion of its “Internet sovereignty” is part of a still broader...
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