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Fang Lizhi, a well-known Chinese democracy and human rights advocate, died on April 6 in the United States.

A controversial revision to China's criminal procedure law was pushed through despite fierce public resistance, and done in ...

Lop Nor was once a 1.3 million acre lake in the Taklamakan desert of Xinjiang Autonomous Region until ...

Ai Weiwei has accepted a job to teach at the University of Berlin, but it's unclear whether he'll ...

In November, 2004 The Epoch Times published an editorial series called Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, which ...

A reporter intern for New York-based New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD TV) was arrested while covering a July ...

Police arrested over two hundred demonstrators after the huge July 1 march in Hong Kong. Over a thousand ...

One of China's most highly profiled dissidents, Hu Jia, was released from jail early Sunday morning.

Chongqing, a large city in south-western China most well-known for the antics of its neo-Maoist boss Bo Xilai, ...

A letter sent by the wife of blind human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng to a friend describes prolonged ...

An independent TV station broadcasting uncensored news into Asia, including mainland China, via a Taiwan-controlled satellite has since ...

The wife and daughter of a prominent rights activist has been evicted from her apartment in Shenzhen after ...

Over 5,000 police clashed with 10,000 protesters in Zengcheng City, Guangzhou Province on June 11 and 12. A ...

He Peirong, an activist who has kept in contact with blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, went missing when ...

On the 22nd anniversary of the June 4 Tiananmen Massacre, supporters of Chinese democracy held memorial activities around ...

Two bold Chinese artists are exhibiting works in the U.S. that could never be shown in China—and Chinese ...

Ordinary residents and rank-and-file Communist Party members in a village in Jiangsu Province, China, have taken an unusual ...

Lawmakers in the United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan believe the Chinese Communist regime is responsible for a ...

Famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was allowed the first contact with the outside world after 43 days of ...

A firefighter from Wuhan, China, was sent to a mental hospital for four years after he sought legal ...

The beating of a teacher by a group of police in China's Sichuan Province triggered a mass protest ...

China's new Secretary of Religious Affairs intends to break up and crush all Christian house churches.

As Mother's Day approaches, being in the U.S., I cannot help but think of my mother still living ...

China's human rights lawyers have become the authorities' primary targets of crackdown. A large number of outspoken human ...

A Beijing human rights attorney who had been missing for ten days, was released by authorities from a ...

Zhang Lianying and her husband Niu Jinping are living witnesses to modern Chinese history. This is their story ...

Thousands staged a protest march in Hong Kong demanding the release of Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei.