forced demolition

Her mother was threatened by CCP police.

Rather than be forced off his land by officially-backed real estate developers, a Chinese man built a mortar to fight back.

Though appealing to higher authorities is a time-honored practice from Imperial China, now it is little more than a piece of bureaucratic rhetoric.

Developers demolishing people’s houses happen regularly in China, but a recent case in central China’s Henan Province has been widely publicized, arousing outrage.

Seven people appeared to attempt to kill themselves by drinking pesticide, outside a major state newspaper company in Beijing on July 16, in an attempt to gain public attention over the demolition of their homes.