An appeal to all Member States to join the global convention banning the secret abduction or imprisonment of persons has been made by the UN Secretary-General on the fourth International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.

In a message on the Day, observed annually on 30 August, Ban Ki-moon denounced the "alarming" number of acts that are tantamount to forced disappearances.

Some men arrive. They force their way into a family’s home, rich or poor...

China's Guizhou province is the poorest area in China, with many villages still receiving a special government allowance. In the past couple of decades, much of the allowance funds have been"highjacked" by top officials, and cases of people...

On July 1, 2015, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) marked its 94th anniversary with celebrations extolling the “glorious history” of the Party. People in a dyeing and weaving factory in Xiangtan City, Hunan Province chose a different approach. All 1,000 Party members in the factory renounced their membership in the CCP together.

This revealed an ongoing, but not widely reported phenomenon in China: Tuidang (退党), the movement to renounce Communism.

It is not an...

Several provisions of China’s Supreme People’s Court took effect on May 1, stating that the courts will now accept written complaints without exception, in order to protect citizens’ legal right to sue. These complaints cannot be automatically rejected as they were in the past. As a result, a flood of lawsuits has come in against...

Zhou Yongkang had a dream to make his son, Zhou Bing the first "elected president of China"; Bo Xilai, too, dreamed of making his son Bo Guagua, a...

The daughter-in-law of Zeng Qinghong, (former vice-president of the Chinese regime), Jiang Mei, was reported by overseas Chinese media as working with Dai Yongge, to launder billions of yuan overseas for corrupt officials.

Who is Dai Yongge?  Dai, born into an ordinary family in Heilongjiang province in China, earned his fame (shame)

A remarkable thing happened on the streets of Beijing 16 years ago this week. It was the beginning of a monumental chain of events whose significance is still playing out across China today.

Largest peaceful protest in modern Chinese history

On April 25, 1999, Falun Gong stood up to be heard. Disturbed by the hardening tone of state-run media, and triggered by the wrongful arrest of dozens of practitioners in nearby Tianjin, thousands went to the capital to seek justice for...

According to official media the Chinese Communist Party’s former security chief, Zhou Yongkang, has been indicted on charges of bribery, abuse of power, and and the intentional disclosure of state secrets.

Although Zhou has been under investigation since 2012 and he has been expelled from the communist party, it has taken a long time to gather evidence against him and his family.

Zhou Yongkang was a member of the powerful Politiburo Standing Committee, the highest...

In 1923 in Taixing, Jiang Bei, north of Shanghai, there was a man, Shi Qinzhong, who always conducted evil deeds. Many villagers were scared of him and always tried to avoid him. That year, Mr Shi suddenly became very ill, and was confined to bed.

During that time, a monk passed through the village...

Confidential diplomatic cables from the Canadian embassy in Beijing have been published nearly 26 years after the deadly massacre of protesters on June 4 1989.

The Telegraph reports that top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders approached Swiss diplomats about sending "very significant amounts of money" to bank accounts in Switzerland at the time of the 1989 Tiananmen protests.

"The country is now being controlled...

A leading Chinese internet company has been forced to make changes to its Crisis 2015 video game after intense social media criticism in Tibet of its use of real Tibetan Buddhist temples as settings for graphic violence and scantily dressed women. The game is deeply offensive to Tibetans, who suffer from religious persecution and believe their culture is held in contempt by China’s government and many Chinese people.

Players in the “first person shooter” game, made by...

Many who have been holding their breath over the intense showdown in Hong Kong probably missed a moment of entertainment in Beijing.

The event in Beijing gave clues to discern the forces that are trying to direct the outcome of the Umbrella Movement.

Taking a stand in sitting

On the evening of September 29, 2014, a concert celebrating the 65^th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rule of mainland China was held in the Great Hall of the...