Public Security Bureau

Shanxi Province is part of the ancient Chinese heartland. Home to the capitals of multiple dynasties and kingdoms, it is rich in cultural artifacts and tombs of monarchs and nobles. Selling the relics buried there can make raiders an overnight fortune.

Security officials in China invited reporters to a meeting encouraging a crackdown on the press.

Qin Yuhai, Party Secretary and vice director of the standing committee of the National People’s Congress in Henan, and associate of Zhou Yongkang, is being investigated for corruption.

Fifty-two people from China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have been detained for unapproved online activity in recent weeks by communist authorities, according to a Mongolian human rights organization.

Former policemen who say they were persecuted by the communist regime gathered in Beijing with other petitioners to seek redress for injustice.

A public security official in Shanxi Province has been sacked after he used his position and strong-arm tactics to protect and cover up his son’s violent and abusive response to a traffic stop.

A decision to grant asylum to a former spy unmasks a broad network of operators used to monitor overseas dissidents and Falun Gong practitioners, and reveals the tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party to recruit students.

Beijing police appear to be taking a new hands-off approach in dealing with petitioners who arrive from out of town to express their grievances at the capital—evidence of a significant change in approach to handling public security in China.

The Chinese Public Security Bureau is trying to force Internet cafes with wireless to set up an expensive monitoring system to spy on users.

Li Qiming, the driver, when pulled over by campus security boasted that his father was a public security director.

Three judges and the suspect have died in a shooting incident in Southeastern China; three others are injured.