In the early hours of the morning of April 15, 2025, a lone protester lashed three long white banners with red, hand-painted political slogans to the railings of a pedestrian overpass near a bus station in Chengdu, and unfurled...
Political turmoil in Bangladesh reached a climax this month as a student-led protest movement ousted Sheikh Hasina from her 15-year tenure as prime minister. The movement began with peaceful protests against a quota system for...
A recent WeChat post from oft-controversial entrepreneur, publicity hound, and philanthropist Chen Guangbiao urging the Chinese government to keep its hands off people’s pocketbooks has attracted many supportive comments from...
Weibo censors deleted an essay blaming China’s stagnating economic growth on “a failure of political reform” that also compared the Party-state to gangsters and “underworld bosses.” The essay by popular blogger “Mr. Liu Dake”...
On April 10, civil rights lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were sentenced to 14 and 12 years in prison, respectively, on charges of “subversion of state power” after closed door trials in Linshu County, Shandong. The charges...
Civil rights lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi have been sentenced to 14 and 12 years in prison, respectively, on charges of “subversion of state power” after closed door trials in Linshu County, Shandong. The charges stem from...
“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...
Recent months have seen increasingly sharp reprisals against prominent critics of Xi Jinping’s leadership. Law professor Xu Zhangrun was fired by Tsinghua University in mid-July after a brief detention and his earlier...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China,...
On July 15, socialist country Cuba announced revisions to its Soviet-era constitution. Its chief...
Rights lawyer Yu Wensheng was detained on Friday while walking his son to school, The...
The week since Nobel Peace laureate, democracy advocate, and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo died...
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), a rural sociologist known for his...
At a symposium commemorating the centenary of Hu Yaobang’s birth, President Xi Jinping...
In June, Tsinghua University professor Daniel Bell published “The China Model: Political...
Originally published late last year, this essay by writer and human rights activist Wang Debang on...
South China Morning Post’s Keira Lu Huang highlights a pseudonymous state media commentary...
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