Gisela Sommer

A Falun Gong practitioner who tapped into a television channel in China has died from torture after seven years detention.

China has prepared for military intervention in case of a North Korean regime collapse.

A Chinese human rights advocacy group has set up a database of political prisoners in China.

The deputy director and editor-in-chief of state-run Xinhua News Agency in Anhui Province, is said to have committed suicide Monday night.

The U.S. State Department joined international human rights groups in their support of four Chinese lawyers who are being held in custody by Chinese security forces.

Practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice that has been subjected to severe persecution in China for the past 15 years, had to resort to an appeal to the Paris Administrative Court to stage a peaceful protest and rally in front of the Chinese embassy in Paris, France during Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit last week.

The life of jailed Chinese human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng was featured in a documentary at the Free Thinking Film Fest in Ottawa.

Traditional Chinese weddings are colorful and festive and based on a comprehensive system of etiquette.