This is a summary of Benedict Rogers’ Nov.1 talk at Citizen Power Forum run by Citizen Power Initiatives for China.

It is my great privilege to be speaking today at the first of the Citizen Power Forum events. Initiatives like this are vital in a day when the Chinese Communist Party are using sharp power to attempt to silence pro-democracy and human rights voices.

I have worked on and spoken widely on a range of issues relating to China, from the...

The Chinese government has a five-year plan to make Christianity 'more compatible with socialism' in which there will be a "rewrite" of the Bible, a prominent religious freedom activist has told Congress.

The Rev. Bob Fu, a former Chinese house church leader who immigrated to the United States in 1997 and founded the persecution watchdog organization China Aid, provided great detail during a House hearing recently about a plan enacted by leading state-sanctioned denominations in...

A former Google employee, Jack Poulson, who had been a senior researcher at the company until resigning in August, wrote that he was fearful of Google's ambitions in China, in a letter to US lawmakers.


His letter alleges Google's work on a Chinese product - codenamed Dragonfly - would aid Beijing's efforts to censor and monitor its citizens online.

A report by news site The Intercept last week alleged Google had demanded employees delete an internal memo...

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A Chinese human rights lawyer persecuted by authorities for his support of oppressed communities, including Christians and Falun Gong practitioners, has been awarded the Shahbaz Bhatti Freedom Award for 2018.

The whereabouts of the lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, have not been publicly known since August, 2017, so the award was...

It is now clear, from numerous reliable sources, that shocking human rights atrocities are being perpetrated in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China (XUAR).

The Communist Party authorities have established a large number of political re-education centers in Xinjiang, detaining people without any judicial process, stripping them of their personal liberty, imprisoning them, and detaining them for indeterminate ‘sentences.’

Estimates of the...

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Chinese police broke into the home of a retired Shandong University professor who is critical of China's human rights record as he was expressing via a telephone interview, his opinions on the Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin television show, Issues & Opinions.

VOA Mandarin has attempted to reach professor Wenguang Sun by cellphone and...

A new report has added to the body of evidence documenting the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) crimes against humanity.

A team of researchers at the China Organ Harvest Research Center examined China’s transplant hospitals,government and industry statements, policies, legislation and...

June 4th is the 29th anniversary of the brutal massacre of unarmed students in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

The communist regime, led by Deng Xiaoping and Li Peng, ordered the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to crush the 7 week old, student-led democracy protests on Tiananmen Square by military force, and even today the communist regime denies that a massacre occurred.

The usual roundup and arrests of activists and survivors of the massacre is happening in China prior to the...

{Editor’s Note: Reports indicate that the Vatican is getting closer to signing a contract with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in which they jointly appoint Bishops in China. If this agreement actually materializes, it will represent a significant reversal in the position of the Roman Catholic Church, which used to take a hard position against the CCP.

In the past, the Vatican didn’t recognize the CCP since it denies the existence of God. In fact, the Vatican and China...

Woechung Gyatso writing a confession letter during the workshop (unnamed We Chat user)

On 16 April two monks from Tsang Monastery in Ba Dzong, Tsolho Prefecture were arrested for sharing' illegal' photos and articles on WeChat.

One of the monks has been identified as Woechung Gyatso, of Deden village in Malho Sogdzong in eastern Tibet, while the other’s...

Xi Jinping has called for 依法治国 many times. The term, when directly translated into English is “rule the country by law,” or “rule by law,” as opposed to the current “rule by the Communist Party.” Sometimes people with good-wishes translate it as “rule of law” as they are eager to see China adopt a better philosophy of governance.

The recent developments involving RYB Education, Inc. give people an opportunity to see how Xi, after consolidating his...

The South China Morning Post has reported that thousands of Christians in an impoverished county in rural southeast China have swapped their posters of Jesus for portraits of Xi Jinping as part of a local government poverty-relief programme that seeks to “transform believers in religion into believers in the party”.

The atheist Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is worried that people who have religious beliefs will not allow their morals to be corrupted by the CCP, and...