Plainclothes henchmen attacked journalists from two European news organizations on Wednesday as they investigated land grab protests that began earlier this month in the Zhejiang village of Panhe, according to Shanghaiist:...
Shanghaiist reports a clash between police and mourners at the funeral of a man killed while defending his sister—or who, according to a police account, “died suddenly when arguing with others.” Hang...
For the Al Jazeera blog, Melissa Chan points out that, in a recent survey by the Foreign Correspondents Club of China on working conditions, 94% of journalists who responded felt the work environment had deteriorated over the...
China Media Project fellow Xiao Shu comments on the investigation into private security company Anyuanding, which has been accused of detaining petitioners in Beijing “black jails” on behalf of local governments:...
China’s Scientific & Academic Integrity Watch reports (h/t Danwei) that an arrest has been made in the attack against scientific fraud investigator Fang Shimin, otherwise known as Fang Zhouzi: Beijing Police Bureau...
Ai Weiwei and other artists who had been assaulted by thugs for protesting forced eviction from an artist colony held a protest in Beijing today. Global Times reports: About 20 artists briefly demonstrated Monday in downtown...
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen visited Chengdu and met with Tang Huiqin, the older sister of Tang Fuzhen, who set herself on fire to protest the demolition of her family’s house and beatings of her family members by...
A teenager who has been sentenced to death for killing a corrupt and violent local Party official has gained the support of villagers, with 20,000 people petitioning the court for a lighter sentence. AP reports: The murder trial...
AP reports on the beating of a journalist by security guards while investigating a death in Guangzhou: A Chinese journalist was checking out a tip that police had discovered a woman’s body this week when he was stopped by...
China Geeks translates a lengthy essay by Ai Weiwei about his experiences trying to document the names of students killed in the Sichuan earthquake and about the political system that allows “hoodlums” to run the...
The New York Times reports on the beating suffered by Sun Wenguang, a 75-year-old retired university professor in Shandong, when he went to a cemetery to pay his respects to Zhao Ziyang on Qing Ming day: As he entered the...
The following video clip is spreading through Chinese cyberspace right now. The clip shows the village head together with a group of thugs beating up villagers who refuse to leave their homes which will be demolished for a...
Shanghaiist reports on a recent violent attack against NGO workers who support the legal rights of migrant workers: Two weeks ago, when we told you that China’s new labour law was going to be a big, big thing, we had no idea it would also be the cause of some serious blood-letting. Local gangs and […]
APP, a leading paper maker, has run into a lot of problems with its aggressive, environmentally controversial paper-pulp tree swaps in Yunnan and Hainan. Now it’s having a problem of another kind, fighting thugs that steal its trees. Translated by CDT from Green China magazine: One night in July this year, some forest patrol officers […]
Hundreds of migrant workers protesting over unpaid wages in Guangdong Province were beaten by thugs hired by their company, according to news reports. The AP is reporting that one protester was killed while Xinhua says no-one was killed but one man is in critical condition. From BBC: Nearly 300 workers went on strike last Friday […]
From Spiegel Online: China’s newly rich have become the targets of shady executives and a gangster underworld. Businessmen occasionally hire contract killers to snuff out their competitors. There are unscrupulous bosses who want to keep workers who demand their wages off their backs. And criminals who will blackmail or kidnap the rich in order to […]
From the Washington Post: The trial of a blind rural lawyer, charged in what rights activists say is a politically motivated case, was postponed Thursday, and a group of his supporters was assaulted by unknown assailants outside the courthouse. As many as 200 people traveled to China’s eastern Shandong province to support Chen Guangcheng, whose […]
Seeing these pictures and story you will feel like you are in a movie where people live in a terror created by the government and gangsters who call each other friends. Or the scene in George Orwell‘s Animal Farm where other animals discover Snowball and fellow pigs are drinking and dining with humans, the farm […]
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