Pu Zhiqiang charged with ‘inciting ethnic hatred’ and ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ in Beijing court on Monday and faces up to eight years’ jail in what supporters call a witch-hunt

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

Pu Zhiqiang charged with ‘inciting ethnic hatred’ and ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ in Beijing court on Monday and faces up to eight years’ jail in what supporters call a witch-hunt

Chinese rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang goes on trial over social media posts criticising Communist Party

Chinese courts will reject ‘Western pressure’ in rights lawyer’s trial, says state-run tabloid

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

Detained Chinese lawyer Pu Zhiqiang insists charges are trumped up as lawyers prepare for pre-trial meeting

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

Detained Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang gets pre-trial meeting date

4 Aug 2016 - 10:36AM

Chinese media evokes image of Titanic to endorse reformist Xi Jinping keeping nation afloat

6 Dec 2015 - 2:59AM

Veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu ‘had no choice’ but to confess guilt before early release from prison, legal experts say

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

Hopes of lighter sentence, medical parole for Chinese journalist Gao Yu in state secrets case appeal

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

Chinese President Xi Jinping pays tribute at centenary of late reformist leader Hu Yaobang

20 Jul 2018 - 2:54PM

The battle of the century: Defining the legacy of China’s late liberal leader Hu Yaobang

20 Nov 2015 - 12:14AM

China to mark centenary of liberal leader Hu Yaobang, the man whose death sparked Tiananmen protests

19 Nov 2015 - 9:01PM

'I could hear the baby cry. They killed my baby ... yet I couldn’t do a thing': The countless tragedies of China’s one-child policy

It was 25 years ago, but Mao Hengfeng still vividly remembers the piercing cries of her baby.

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

It was 25 years ago, but Mao Hengfeng still vividly remembers the piercing cries of her baby.

'I could hear the baby cry. They killed my baby ... yet I couldn’t do a thing': The countless tragedies of China’s one-child policy

Detained lawyers, activists in China face serious risk of torture, says Amnesty International

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

China's two-child policy 'too little, too late' demographers warn

2 Nov 2015 - 4:55PM

Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan’s charm offensive wows the world but disguises a harsher reality, critics say

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

‘Sins of the father’: How China targets children of lawyers and activists as crackdown widens

4 Aug 2016 - 10:47AM

Detained human rights lawyer, Wang Yu, on Chinese state TV informed of 'failed attempt to smuggle son overseas'

Human rights lawyer Wang Yu and her husband Bao Longjun, who have been detained incommunicado for three months, were shown on state television in a distressed state yesterday, condemning a failed attempt to smuggle their teenage son out of China.

4 Aug 2016 - 10:36AM

Human rights lawyer Wang Yu and her husband Bao Longjun, who have been detained incommunicado for three months, were shown on state television in a distressed state yesterday, condemning a failed attempt to smuggle their teenage son out of China.