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Fang Lizhi, a well-known Chinese democracy and human rights advocate, died on April 6 in the United States.

A controversial revision to China’s criminal procedure law was pushed through despite fierce public resistance, and done in the most public forum possible--deliberately to create an atmosphere of fear, critics say.

Lop Nor was once a 1.3 million acre lake in the Taklamakan desert of Xinjiang Autonomous Region until the Chinese military set up a secret nuclear test site in June 1959, detonating 45 nuclear bombs between 1964 and 1996. A Chinese military veteran, using the alias Liu Qing, told The Epoch Times in an exclusive interview about his experiences while serving in the nuclear unit and being sent for prolonged military exercises at ground zero.

Ai Weiwei has accepted a job to teach at the University of Berlin, but it’s unclear whether he'll be allowed out of China.

In November, 2004 The Epoch Times published an editorial series called Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, which takes an unsparing look at the nature, history, and crimes of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

A reporter intern for New York-based New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD TV) was arrested while covering a July 1 protest in Hong Kong. Her colleagues are asking whether the police in making the arrest were targeting NTD.

Police arrested over two hundred demonstrators after the huge July 1 march in Hong Kong. Over a thousand police moved in on the demonstrators.

One of China’s most highly profiled dissidents, Hu Jia, was released from jail early Sunday morning.

Chongqing, a large city in south-western China most well-known for the antics of its neo-Maoist boss Bo Xilai, will have free access to the Internet soon—though not everyone will be enjoying it.

A letter sent by the wife of blind human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng to a friend describes prolonged beatings she and Chen endured and harassment the entire family has suffered.

An independent TV station broadcasting uncensored news into Asia, including mainland China, via a Taiwan-controlled satellite has since early April faced the prospect of going off the air on Aug. 9.

The wife and daughter of a prominent rights activist has been evicted from her apartment in Shenzhen after the authorities put pressure on the landlord, according to a series of Twitter messages she left.

Over 5,000 police clashed with 10,000 protesters in Zengcheng City, Guangzhou Province on June 11 and 12. A national highway was blocked and dozens of police cars smashed and burnt.

He Peirong, an activist who has kept in contact with blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, went missing when she attempted to visit Chen’s family in Dongshigu, a small village in Shandong Province, China on May 31.

On the 22nd anniversary of the June 4 Tiananmen Massacre, supporters of Chinese democracy held memorial activities around the world, demanding that China provide full accounting and free any citizens still serving sentences.

Two bold Chinese artists are exhibiting works in the U.S. that could never be shown in China—and Chinese netizens, taken by the hard-hitting political commentary embedded in the pieces, are applauding furiously.

Ordinary residents and rank-and-file Communist Party members in a village in Jiangsu Province, China, have taken an unusual step to seek relief from forced demolitions.

Lawmakers in the United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan believe the Chinese Communist regime is responsible for a move that would potentially bar New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television from broadcasting to mainland China.

Famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was allowed the first contact with the outside world after 43 days of detention without charge.

A firefighter from Wuhan, China, was sent to a mental hospital for four years after he sought legal assistance to settle a dispute over wages at his work place.