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China Waste Facility Protests Escalate as Residents Block Roads and Force Project Cancellation in Hefei

According to the BBC, on the night of June 27, residents of Hefei, the capital of Anhui province in eastern China, poured into the streets to stop construction of a massive waste t...

More Than a Million Businesses Went Dark in Northeast China for 67 Days

No leaders, no banners, no arrests to make: shopkeepers across Heilongjiang found a form of protest the Chinese Communist Party could not suppress.

Research is Not a Crime

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Chengdu Homeowners Clash With Police Over ‘Property Fees’ as Local Fiscal Strain Deepens

Police beat and detain residents in Chengdu and Yunnan as years of ignored complaints reach breaking point

‘Path of Light’ Campaign Against Communist China Faces Violent Obstruction in US and Germany

The overseas nonviolent projection campaign against the Chinese regime called the “Path of Light” has recently encountered obstruction in both New York, and Berlin, drawing public...

Rare protest over animal abuse spotlights China's 'mass-movement' fears

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People power

Activists struggle to keep spotlight on Tiananmen in world beset by crises

China: No Justice for Tiananmen Massacre 37 Years On

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Civic groups slam China’s ethnic unity and progress law

Taiwan steps up as Chinese repression rises

Rights groups condemn alleged intimidation of community activists after Parliament testimony on Chinese mine

FOUR Zimbabwean civil society organisations have accused a senior government official of intimidating community activists after they gave evidence to Parliament about alleged envir...

TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION: ‘China Feels Emboldened to Globalise Its Political Red Lines’

CIVICUS discusses the cancellation of RightsCon 2026 with Barbora Bukovská, Senior Director for Law and Policy at ARTICLE 19, a human rights organisation that works on freedom of e...

Citizens Coalition Vows To Confront Mnangagwa Over CAB3

Tinashe Sambiri| A broad coalition of churches, civic groups and opposition formations has declared a new phase of struggle against … Continue reading "Citizens Coalition Vows To C...

Tempers flare as 20 Hong Kong villagers lose homes to Northern Metropolis

Hundreds of security guards and police officers were deployed on Tuesday to evict about 20 residents from a Hong Kong village as part of the government’s Northern Metropolis megapr...

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Hong Kong: No Safety in Exile

LONDON, June 19 (IPS) - When performance artist Sammu Chen tried to tie a red thread to a streetpost, plainclothes police stopped him before he could finish. Chen has twice been d...

Chinese Activist Zhang Chao Arrested After Posting Tiananmen Photo on WeChat

Authorities detained the Shandong labor-rights campaigner hours after he photographed the square on the 37th anniversary of the June 4 massacre.

Beijing Plane Crash Exposes Cracks in China’s Air Defense and Crisis Response

While authorities have yet to release a full investigation, the incident has sparked debate over whether bureaucratic rigidity, institutional weaknesses, or security blind spots le...

Whither an International Response to China’s Ethnic Unity Law?

The conventional tools previously used to penalize China for its rights abuses – sanctions, public pressure, condemnation, institutional mechanisms, and more – have all been blunte...

China Rolls Out New Rules Blocking Petitioners From Reaching Beijing

Police clear petitioner camps in Beijing days after the regulation quietly took effect

Hidden for Decades: Restored Tiananmen Footage Offers Unfiltered View of June 4

The rare recordings capture student protesters, ordinary citizens, military deployments, and candid interviews that offer an unfiltered view of one of the most consequential events...

‘Never Let Taiwan Fall Into the Hands of Thugs’: Mainland Chinese Mock Beijing’s Unification Pitch on Douyin

Tens of thousands of comments on a CCP Taiwan Affairs Office briefing clip turned into a spontaneous public rebuke of Beijing, exposing cracks in China's censorship machine.