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From Peaceful Protest to Nationwide Crackdown: The Legacy of ‘April 25, 1999’

Saturday, April 25, will mark 27 years since the persecution of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline in China, began in 1999. On this occasion, an article published on Minghui.org, a...

Zhao Ziyang’s Five Proposals Terrified the CCP Elite and Sealed His Fate

On May 16, 1989, the five proposals that Zhao Ziyang placed before his Politburo Standing Committee colleagues set off a sequence of events that ended in tanks on the streets of Be...

China Protest Video Goes Viral After Man Recites ‘How to Kill a Bird’ in Shenyang

On the evening of April 15, a man stood in the middle of Zhongjie, a pedestrian shopping street in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province in northeastern China, and recited poe...

Ice protest

Tiananmen activist defends advocacy at HK trial

People rally in protest of slashed defense spending

Beijing condemned for blocking Lai’s trip

Good News in History, April 5

50 years ago today, the April 5th Incident (known as the Tiananmen Square protest) helped pave the way for the end of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, and with it, Maoist communis...

Falun Gong Marks 27 Years Since April 25 Appeal With Toronto Rally Against Persecution

On April 25, 1999, over ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners in China went to the State Council Petition Office in Beijing to peacefully appeal, requesting the right to live with...

EDITORIAL: Waking up to Beijing’s repression