On March 21, 2014, four rights defense lawyers, Jiang Tianyong Tang Jitian, Wang Cheng, and Zhang Junjie, who went to the Jiansanjiang Farm Authorities in Heilongjiang Province to investigate human rights abuses in its so-called “Legal Education Center,” were unlawfully detained and tortured by police. A few dozen citizens from around the country who subsequently came to ask for the lawyers’ release were also detained and beaten up by police. This violent incident against regular...

Hong Kong University (HKU) recently awarded an honorary doctorate to China's former vice-minister for health, Huang Jiefu. Last year, the University of Sydney awarded Huang an honorary professorship.

Both universities have been forced to defend these awards, as Huang is one of the architects of China's organ transplant system which...

This year will mark the 25th anniversary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing. In remembrance of the horrific tragedy of that day and in commemoration of the fearless spirit of those who gave their lives for their ideals and their country, Citizen Power for China/Initiatives for China (CPFC/IFC) has submitted...

Chinese authorities in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) appear to be trying out a new, softer approach to winning over the loyalty of Tibetans while continuing to arrest those who protest.

The party chief in TAR, Chen Quanguo, has begun meeting and exchanging friendly letters with monks from restive areas, especially Driru County, the site of several anti-Beijing protests in recent years.

While a military presence continues in the restive areas...

The biggest political "tiger" - a corrupt top official - in the history of the People's Republic of China is about to be caged.

Zhou Yongkang, the former internal head of security, member of the politburo and part of the Jiang Zemin political faction will soon be arrested and face trial for corruption.

Zhou was instrumental in carrying out Jiang Zemin's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners along with Bo Xilai, Luo Gan, and other members of the faction. These three men in...

There were 239 people on the passenger list of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, but 3 people have confirmed that they were not on the 'plane. Then who used their passports and took their seats?

37 year old Luigi Maraldi from Italy had his passport stolen on 1st August 2013 in Thailand. Luigi went back to Italy and applied...

On 1st March, 2014 just after 9pm at Kunming railway station, 8 young persons wearing black uniforms and holding large knives, some almost a meter long, attacked people in the railway square and also inside the ticketing area. 33 are confirmed dead, over 140 injured and some still in a critical...

The Chinese Communist  Party (CCP) ghost is still behind every building block of Chinese society, while China’s economy has expanded to a scale comparable to that of the U.S.  People who live in a society that doesn’t require having to face  the CCP in their daily lives tend to underestimate the Party’s impact.

Although the U.S. government and the American people have never been China’s enemy,  due to their conflicting ideologies,  U.S.  democracy and its values have...

President Barack Obama met exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday in spite of the usual warnings from the Chinese communist regime that the visit would "seriously damage" the relationship between the two countries.

The White House said that President Obama reiterated his support for Tibet's unique religious, cultural and linguistic traditions and human rights for Tibetans.

"The president stressed that he encourages direct dialogue to resolve...

Microsoft’s search engine Bing appears to be censoring information for Chinese language users in the US in the same way it filters results in mainland China.

The Guardian reports that searches first conducted by anti-censorship campaigners at FreeWeibo, a tool that allows uncensored search of Chinese blogs, found that Bing returns radically different results in the US for...