13 Dec 2012

A Henan property tycoon who revealed bold plans to contend in the Zhengzhou city’s mayoral race on a “clean government” independent slate last year was handed a fine of 34 million yuan (HK$42.2...

6:47PM
6 Sep 2011

Detained rights activist Yao Lifa returned home briefly at the weekend but his wife was unsure of his whereabouts after he left home for work yesterday.

6:46PM
23 Jun 2011

The emergence of a wave of web-based, self-nominated 'independent candidates' for local legislative elections on the mainland has suffered another setback. Candidates and campaigners have...

1:05PM
10 Jun 2011

Confusion surrounds the status of efforts by dozens of 'independent' contenders running for seats in grass-roots legislatures, following the authorities' first official response to the election...

12:01PM
28 May 2011

More than a dozen high-profile independent candidates have made separate online announcements that they will run for seats on district-level people's congresses.

11:04AM
10 Dec 2006

Propaganda department cracks down on biography of democracy pioneer


A biography about China's first independent candidate for legislative election has been banned and removed from...

10:19AM

Beijing is tightening control over township and county-level elections to prevent undesirable candidates running for the 2 million seats on local people's congresses.

4:15AM

Democracy activist Yao Lifa and five other campaigners were detained by police in Hubei yesterday afternoon as they planned to mobilise people to run in people's congress elections.

12:24AM

The defeated candidate in the local people's congress election in Guangdong's Taishi village has engaged a panel of lawyers to sue the election committee over what he claims was a rigged poll.

12:49PM

Activist says he lost consciousness after assault in Taishi


A mainland legislator re-emerged in his home province of Hubei last night after he was badly beaten in Guangdong's Taishi...

3:35AM

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