10 May 2013

Three activists who staged a protest in Beijing urging senior Communist Party officials to disclose their family assets have been formally arrested after being held for more than a month, one of...

5:12AM
31 Mar 2013

When she and Hong Kong boyfriend Yang Kuang were hustled to a police station by five officers, mainland activist Liu Shasha heard a whisper in her ear that calmed her down.

6:06AM
3 Aug 2012

Please don't hang her. I just want her to be brought home alive

An appeal to Malaysian authorities by the mother of Emma Louise L'Aiguille (above), who has been charged with drug...

10:54PM
14 Jul 2012

Having spent most of the 22 years since the June 4 crackdown in jail, labour activist Li Wangyang was relatively unknown on the mainland.

9:18PM
16 Jun 2012

The ceramic tile facade of the eight-storey hospital where veteran democracy activist Li Wangyang spent the last months of his life fighting serious ailments and injustice, stands out in an...

5:40PM
14 Nov 2011

The story headlined 'Police harass dozens of blind activist's supporters' on Page 8 yesterday said a staff member at Chen Guangcheng's local Yinan Public Security Bureau hung up the phone when a...

12:40AM

We will continue with our work in human rights in China... We can't stop because ordinary people are still suffering, we can't stop voicing out for our own (selfish) sake

Activist...

12:06PM

As international pressure mounts for the release of the mainland's most famous artist-activist Ai Weiwei, Beijing's failure to respond sends an ominous signal to the country's other dissidents and...

7:09AM

Veteran democracy activist Szeto Wah was wrong when he said Hong Kong was the only place on Chinese soil where candles were lit to mark the Tiananmen crackdown.

8:23PM

Activist gets jail term for spiderman stunt

11:34AM

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