A celebrity police chief may have spilled the beans on official links to notorious Chinese organized crime groups.
The Chinese dissident is besieged by police as he leaves a computer store.
China tolerates Christians by insisting that they must align themselves with one of the two officially sectioned religious organizations: the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, for Protestants. However, a large number of Chinese Christians chose to associate with unofficial, unregistered house churches (also known as “underground churches”) that reject the Communist controlled idea of the church. Because of that dual allegiance system, most of data about Christianity in China continues to be unreliable and it certainly is incomplete. There is however, a mounting body of visible evidence that the Chinese house churches are growing in number and in influence.
Another Tibetan teenager sets himself on fire and dies in a troubled Chinese province.
A popular Tibetan writer has been detained by Chinese authorities in a county rocked by bloody protests in southwestern Sichuan province, writers and exile sources said Saturday.
Self-immolation protests by Tibetans may be the only recourse in their struggle for religious freedom and against Chinese rule, the patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam said in a letter to Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
As the Obama administration hosts Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping during his visit to the United States, the Uyghur American Association (UAA) urges U.S. officials to engage in dialogue with Xi regarding the deteriorating human rights situation in East Turkestan. UAA hopes American officials will publicly prioritize concerns over state-led repression of Uyghurs in talks with Xi in order to lay the groundwork for future engagement on Uyghur issues as he prepares to take the helm of China’s leadership later this year.
The White House raises with Chinese officials the issue of a visa refusal for a U.S. religious freedom envoy.
Democratic Party chairman Ho was the first candidate to register his candidacy on Tuesday in the fourth contest for Hong Kong's top job since the return of the former British colony to Chinese rule in 1997, a process that is strongly weighted in favor of Beijing-backed candidates.
The rights activist's mother hasn't left the family home and his daughter hasn't shown up at school since late January.