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Authorities Issue Eviction Orders Against Members of the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China

In Chengdu, China, officials and community enforcers have issued eviction notices against members of the now-banned Early Rain Covenant Church — an unofficial Protestant group — amidst a continuing crackdown

China Aims to Vaccinate 1.1 Billion People by October to ‘Win People’s War’

An official with the Chinese government has announced plans to administer vaccinations to 1.1 billion Chinese citizens by the end of October this year. The aggressive target was reportedly set
Australian Police Use Tear Gas, Pepper Spray, Rubber Bullets Against Melbourne Protests After 200+ Days in Lockdown
A man holds a banner reading "Freedom" atop a tram stop during an anti-lockdown protest on August 21, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne police under Chinese Communist Party Belt and Road signatory Premier Daniel Andrews, fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and pepper spray against citizens who have suffered more than 200 days of lockdown since the pandemic began in 2020.
Taliban Murdering Afghans Caught With Bibles on Their Phones
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Chinese Exile Chen Guangcheng: If US and Allies Apply Pressure, Imprisoned Dissidents Could Be Free
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Chinese Citizen Journalist, Imprisoned For Covering Early Stages of Pandemic, Not Well, Lawyer says
‘We are Going to be Suppressed’: Thousands of Canadians Rally in Protest of Quebec Vaccine Passport
Demonstrators march past the Olympic Stadium in a protest against mandatory masks and curfews in May of 2021. As many as 100,000 Quebec residents hit the streets of downtown Montreal to protest Canada’s first vaccine passport mandate.
Hong Kong Group Famous for Mass Protests Disbands After Coming Under Investigation
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In Portland Event, David Matas Confronts China’s Medical Genocide
In 2006, Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas and former Canada's longest-serving parliament member, David Kilgour, co-authored a report investigating allegations that thousands of innocent people were being murdered in Chinese hospitals for the extraction and...
Why Hong Kongers Are So Desperate to Stop the Mainland Extradition Law
A Hong Kong bill that would allow the extradition of suspects to mainland China has sparked what are by far the biggest protests in the city since 1997, when the United Kingdom handed its colony...
Footage From Chinese Labor Camps Sheds Light on 20 Years of Persecution
It was April 1999 when Wang Yifei decided to look deeper into Falun Gong, the spiritual discipline practiced by her parents and tens of millions of other Chinese at the time. Working as a journalist...
130,000 Hong Kongers Protest Mainland China Extradition Agreement
Proposed amendments to Hong Kong extradition laws had over 130,000 residents of the former British colony out on the streets in protest, as passing the legislation would give the communist Chinese authorities the authority to...
The April 25 Appeal: The Calm Before the Storm in 1999
Most people are familiar with the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, when thousands of Chinese college students demonstrating for democratic rights and clean government were slaughtered en masse by the People's Liberation Army in the center...
Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador for religious freedom, delivered a speech at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club on March 8.
US Envoy for Religious Freedom Takes China to Task in Hong Kong
Sam Brownback, the U.S. Ambassador for Religious Freedom, delivered a speech during a visit to Hong Kong strongly criticizing the People’s Republic of China for its “war on faith.” Speaking at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club...
In a Secret Trial, Lawyer Wang Quanzhang Received a 4-Year Sentence
Lawyer Wang Quanzhang, 42, has been sentenced to over four years’ imprisonment following a secret trial held in the city of Tianjin, to the protests of the Chinese rights community and his wife Li Wenzu....
Peking University Professor Urges China to Break With Communism
Shortly after the New Year, Peking University's retired Professor Zheng Yefu (鄭也夫) made a direct and daring appeal to the Chinese authorities in his Jan. 4 article titled Causes for the Difficult Birth of Political...
How China Began a New Era of Repression
On Dec. 18, Chinese leaders celebrated the 40th anniversary of the “reform and opening up” that propelled their country from one of the world’s poorest to the second-biggest economy on earth. But despite the predictions...