In the face of growing government repression, many residents of Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and various provinces of China have fled abroad to seek refuge. This fateful decision to uproot one’s life splits ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in on Monday as the new president of Sri Lanka after the country’s national elections this weekend. The 55-year-old self-described Marxist ran as an outsider from ...

To mark the tenth anniversary on Monday of his sentencing to life in prison, Marie Holzman writes at the online human-rights journal Diyin on Ilham Tohti’s case and its enduring significance. The ...

While China’s athletes won glory in Paris at this year’s Olympics and Paralympics, there was widespread agreement on Chinese social media that the country’s reporters did not. Bloggers and athletes ...

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Commerce proposed rules to ban Chinese technology from internet-connected vehicles in the U.S. The plan was unveiled by the department’s Bureau of Industry and ...

Wednesday’s fatal stabbing of a Japanese fifth-grader as he walked to his school in the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen—just months after a similar fatal stabbing at a Japanese school bus-stop ...

A 10-year-old Japanese boy was stabbed on his way to school in Shenzhen on Wednesday, September 18. He died the following day. The attack occurred on the anniversary of the 1931 Mukden Incident, which ...

The Guangdong Provincial High Court denied the appeals of imprisoned human rights defenders Wang Jianbing and Huang Xueqin in a secretive trial held last week, without notifying their attorneys. The ...

Teng Biao, born on August 2, 1973 in Jilin Province, is a human rights lawyer, activist, and former professor who is dedicated to exposing China’s human rights abuses and fighting against its ...

Vague descriptor that is often used as code for towing the Party line. “Positive energy” was meme-ified in China during the 2010 trial of Song Shanmu, the founder of a well-known vocational ...

Born on September 25, 1975, Ye Haiyan is a social worker and women's and gender rights activist. Also known as Hooligan Sparrow (流氓燕), Ye has since 2005 worked to raise awareness of the ...

The Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is an online glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. Is the Internet acting as a “safety valve” to ...