Yao Lifa

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...

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Activist Yao Lifa goes missing from home a day after his release

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

Independent poll candidates harassed

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...

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Confusion surrounds non-party candidates

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...

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Independent candidates step into the fray

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

Book about first independent election candidate is banned

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...

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Opinion

Hari Kumar

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Party keeps a firm grip on election experiment

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

Activist arrested while seeking Hubei election candidates

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

Taishi poll candidate to sue election committee

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

Legislator returns home after beating

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...

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