Epoch Times China news- As China Security Czar Loses Power, Communist Party Newspaper Touts ‘Political Reform’ May 16, 2012
- Chinese Activist Chen Guangcheng Condemns Abuse of His Family May 16, 2012
- Easier Registration For Social Organizations Might Pave Way for China’s Political Reform May 15, 2012
- Hero Showed How to Bust Through Propaganda in China May 15, 2012
- Petition From 300 Chinese Villagers Circulated in Politburo May 15, 2012
Category Archives: human rights
Chinese Farmers Seize Excavators to Protest Forced Eviction
IT HAS BEEN long established that urbanization makes life better for everyone in today's globalization, but the situation seems to be a little different for China. While most developed countries achieved their urbanization through the gradual migration of their farmers … Continue reading
Huang Qi Continues Rights Activism Despite Hospitalization
PROMINENT HUMAN RIGHTS activist Huang Qi was hospitalized on Wednesday in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, but is said to continue his human rights work despite the hospitalization.
Chinese Petitioners Protest Detentions During Biden Visit
FOLLOWING THEIR RELEASE from illegal detention during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's first visit to China as a White House official, seven Chinese farmers—all women from China's southwestern Sichuan Province—filed a joint complaint with provincial prosecutors earlier this week.
Lai Changxing Interrogated in Secret Location: Report
ALTHOUGH THE RECENTLY deported Chinese fugitive Lai Changxing hasn't been tortured or executed by the Chinese regime—at least not that we know of—Lai's first month in China certainly hasn't been easy. Without the usual restrictions put on media outlets in … Continue reading
Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Detained, Private Schools Demolished
(Photo 1: Xu Zhiyong in 2009 prior to arrest. Greg Baker/AP) “Does he know what he will face?” A netizen wrote of Xu Zhiyong, a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer, in 2007. He won’t have money. He won’t have a … Continue reading
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Weekend Insight: Mainlanders Explore Democracy in Taiwan, Protest Erupts Over Chemical Plant, 50 Million Farmers Have Lost Land
WEEKEND INSIGHT IS an Eye on China feature that aggregates the best of The Epoch Times' coverage on all that pertains to China. BUREAUCRACY Though Yo Fin Chou and his wife are originally from China, the regime’s draconian house registration system and … Continue reading
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Tagged high speed rail, human rights, journalism, media, protest, taiwan, xinjiang
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Chinese Dissident Blogger Released With Conditions
ONE OF CHINA's most prominent writers and bloggers, whose writing on democracy and human rights has not only garnered him hundreds of thousands of supporters but also a detainment, has been unexpectedly released after nearly six months in police custody, … Continue reading
Weekend Insight: 100 Million Quit Communist Party, Confucius Institutes Discriminate Overseas
WEEKEND INSIGHT IS an Eye on China feature that aggregates the best of The Epoch Times' coverage on all that pertains to China. SOCIAL CHANGE A peaceful movement that encourages Chinese people to renounce all affiliations with the Chinese Communist Party reached … Continue reading
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Tagged confucius institutes, falun gong, protest, tuidang
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Dead Babies Used to Make Pills in China, South Korean Network Says
HOSPITALS AND ABORTION clinics in China, together with pharmaceutical companies, have been engaged in a dark and grisly trade, according to a major South Korean broadcaster: turning dead babies into powdered medicine. In an report aired on Aug. 6, the … Continue reading
These Aren’t the Black Jails You’re Looking For
BLACK JAILS ARE one of China's worst-kept secrets. The extralegal and extraconstitutional network of detention centers house petitioners and other "undesirables" without charge or trial. In fact, the official stance by China is that they don't even exist. So imagine … Continue reading