China Jails Rights Lawyer Yu Wensheng For Four Years in Secret Trial

Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu have actually handed a four-year prison term to human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng on subversion charges. Yu was sentenced by Jiangsu’s Xuzhou Intermediate People’s Court after it discovered him guilty of “incitement to subvert state power” in a secret trial. The sentence follows Yu was held for […]

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Police in China’s Chengdu Raid Online Easter Church Service

Police in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan apprehended at least 8 people in an Easter Sunday raid on the houses of Early Rain Covenant Church members, RFA has actually found out. Police robbed an online conference of the church in a synchronised operation targeting church deacons, ministers, volunteers and routine members in their houses […]

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Three Chinese Rights Lawyers ‘Susceptible to Torture’ in Detention: UN Experts

Three United Nations human rights experts have actually revealed “tomb issue” over the fate of three human rights lawyers by force vanished by the Chinese authorities after going to a casual conference of dissidents in the southeastern port city of Xiamen in December. Ding Jiaxi, Zhang Zhongshun and Dai Zhenya are currently being held without […]

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