Chinese paramilitary police have opened fire on peaceful protesters in Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, injuring at least 10 people.

According to Tibetan global independant websites, the paramilitary police opened fire on a crowd of Tibetans protesting the detention of a respected village leader.

Images from the area circulating on social media depicted Tibetans with what appear to be serious wounds on the head and torso following the incident on August 12th. The area...

Finally, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) has initiated the long-awaited action of taking down Zhou Yongkang. This intense political drama, titled “The Battle at Zhongnanhai,” started in early 2012 when Wang Lijun, then the Chongqing police chief, attempted to defect to the U.S. It was followed by the downfall of Bo Xilai, Xu Caihou, and over 40 high ranking officials. It finally climaxed in the caging of the Zhou “tiger.”

Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was released from prison by the communist regime on August 7th, but appears to be under 'house arrest' at his brother's house in Xinjiang province.

Gao's wife, Geng He, who escaped to the United States in 2009, with their two children, has released a statement that Gao had been tortured physically and...

A large-scale demolition of churches and crosses in Zhejiang Province has been launched. The action spread from Wenzhou to other areas. More than 300 churches have been demolished. On August 3, priest Huang Yizi in Pingyang County, Wenzhou was detained, accused of “gathering crowds to attack state organs.
The Zhejiang Church incident increasingly intensifies.

For months, several churches were consistently demolished in Pingyang county. One church’s cross was taken down on...

Following the downfall of Xu Caihou, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, the leading Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpieces released articles implying thatXu’s boss is a party-leader-level “super big tiger”. Commentators claim that, former CCP leader Jiang Zemin had used corruption and blackmail to make party and military officers loyal to him. As Jiang’s followers fall from their positions one by one they must have confessed their connection with Jiang. If so, the...

A Chinese state media article has defined the pro-democracy movement as a cult and criticized liberal intellectuals, insistent lawyers, and democracy activists, calling them heretics. The article sparked public outcry. Many believe the characteristics of a cult as explained in the article best describe the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

On June 11, the online version of CCP mouthpiece Qiushi Magazine, qstheory.cn, published a commentary entitled, "Why The Pro-Democracy Movement Is...

The iconic photo of the 'tank man', an enduring image of courage in the aftermath of the massacre. The man was eventually pulled away from the tanks and was believed to have been executed after interrogation.  (Photo courtesy of 64memo.com)

June 4, 2014 is the 25th anniversary of the horrific Tiananmen Square Massacre, in which the 7 week old, student-led democracy protests...

It has been 25 years since the Tiananmen massacre. And while the memory of the government's bloody crack down on protesters is alive in the minds of many, the anniversary is likely to go unnoticed in Chinese media. The media blackout is a strong reminder of how, 25 years after the events of the spring of 1989, China's leaders have yet to respond to one of the protesters' key demands - the call for press freedom.

During the 1989 protests, when journalists joined the students in...

Protesters in eastern China have succeeded in closing down a local government project to build a huge waste incinerator that residents fear will be harmful to their health and add to pollution.

Choking smog blankets many Chinese cities and the environmental degradation resulting from the country's breakneck economic growth and corruption among communist party officials is angering many Chinese.

The protests which had lasted more than two weeks, turned violent when hundreds...

On 27th April, a large picture of Sun Yat-sen was erected in Tiananmen Square, 3 days before the communist labour day holiday, 1st of May.

This could be one of the most defining events in communist China since 1949, when

Since 2000, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s official media and hospitals across China started to report an explosive increase in the number of transplantations. The annual number increased from fewer than 100 transplants to over 10,000 transplants. Such a phenomenon has generated many questions, with the organ source being the most frequent question asked. However, the CCP has been very tight-lipped about the organ sources. In 2006, when the CCP’s illicit organ procurement was

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...