2026-11-09
Following the Fifth Plenary Session, Xi Jinping dispatched central lecturing groups to various parts of the country to promote violent governance under the guise of lecturing, and to arrest dissidents and officials within the Party.
2026-11-06
Radio Free Asia reported on November 6 that Uyghur woman Reyila Wumaer was sent to a re-education camp at the age of 14 in 2017, sentenced to 12 years in prison at 18 in 2021, and died in a Xinjiang prison at 23. Local police and judicial authorities confirmed her death; one officer claimed she died of a heart attack but did not specify the condition or the circumstances of her death.
2026-11-03
Cheng Wanjun, former editor-in-chief of the magazine "Law and Life," was sentenced to six years in prison for commenting on Xi Jinping. After his release, he fled to Thailand and flew to Taiwan on November 3 to seek help, but was deported back to Thailand due to a lack of valid documents.
2026-11-03
On November 3, Cheng Wanjun, former editor-in-chief of "Law and Life" magazine, flew from Thailand to Taiwan Taoyuan Airport to seek short-term humanitarian protection and transit to a third country. He is currently restricted to the airport holding lounge. He stated that although the UNHCR in Thailand classified him as a high-risk case, his personal safety could not be guaranteed.
2026-11
Following the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee, the push for comprehensive strict party governance and the purging of officials has led to mass arrests of officials in government compounds across the country, triggering panic within official circles and a trend of officials preparing for their aftermath in advance.
2026-11-01
After legal scholar Xu Zhangrun was punished for his speech and forced to leave academic research, he turned to writing poetry. His latest collection of poems from the past four years, "Fallen in Battle: The War Between Heaven and Earth," has been evaluated by Ding Dong regarding his experiences.
2026-10-29
The human rights organization Safeguard Defenders has released a new edition of the book 'The People's Republic of the Disappeared.' It includes first-hand accounts of secret detention under the 'Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location' (RSDL) system from Chinese rights lawyers, journalists, NGO workers, as well as Michael Kovrig, Cheng Lei, and Lee Ming-che, and offers a free PDF download.
2026-10-23
Minsheng Observation Studio published Issue No. 171 of the "China Stability Maintenance and Human Rights Dynamics" (September 2026). According to incomplete statistics, a total of 160 stability maintenance cases that month were compiled, and at least 562 individuals were subjected to varying degrees of stability maintenance and suppression.
2026-10-21
On October 21, surveillance footage of the incident in which Taiwanese crosstalk actor Huang Yihao, who had publicly mocked Xi Jinping, was struck by a vehicle was released: a black sedan tailgated his parked scooter and suddenly rammed it. The video also shows photos from the scene, heavily armed police arriving at his door to arrest him, and footage of him being escorted away. All 5 defendants in the case have been indicted.
2026-10-17
Zhou Junyi, a senior member of the Chinese Democracy Party, successfully left Thailand on October 17, 2026 after being held by the immigration bureau there for more than a year, boarding a flight to Canada. According to reports, while stranded in Thailand Zhou Junyi faced dangerous situations on multiple occasions, including pressure from personnel at the Chinese Embassy in Thailand who demanded that he sign a consent form for repatriation, attempting to have him deported back to China. Zhou Junyi has now successfully escaped the control of the CCP's transnational repression apparatus and is about to arrive in Canada.
2026-10-15
According to Twitter account @__Inty__, on October 15, 2026, Chinese human rights lawyer Lu Siwei was subjected to a door-to-door inspection by local police at a guesthouse in Xiamen, Fujian. His specific situation and the reason for the inspection remain to be further followed.
2026-10-15
According to information from X user QuanLujun, Uyghur children are being forced to be placed in Chinese families because their parents are being held by the Chinese authorities in compulsory detention camps.
2026-10-15
According to X user QuanLujun, Uyghur children in Chinese forced internment facilities are being subjected to forced brainwashing and assimilation in full-boarding schools. The schools force children to prove they are Chinese and praise Xi Jinping, with students being compelled by teachers to chant in unison, "Taiwan and Xinjiang are Chinese territory, long live Xi Jinping."
2026-10-13
According to a post by netizen @QuanLujun, Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong has been arrested and detained by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for 2150 days for fighting for freedom, on charges of "collusion with foreign forces," and is still awaiting sentencing. The poster expects the CCP to continue to detain him and extend his sentence under various pretexts and charges. Joshua Wong is about to celebrate his 30th birthday in prison. This information is from a single source and has not yet been independently verified.
2026-10-12
On October 12, a Taiwanese nurse posted that while traveling in Tibet she was questioned by state security personnel for about an hour, being asked about her work, family, military service experience and political stance; among the 8 Taiwanese in the same tour group, 3 were questioned separately, including two nurses and an aircraft maintenance technician.
2026-10-08
The Zion Church announced that, as the trial approaches, justice administration departments in multiple regions have been pressuring defense lawyers and their firms, and 4 of the original 16 defense lawyers have formally withdrawn under the pressure.
2026-10-06
Taiwan Presidential Office spokesperson Kuo Ya-hui on Monday thanked the United States for protecting Taiwanese citizens and condemned the Chinese Communist Party's transnational repression, while the Mainland Affairs Council said the number of people subjected to transnational repression targeting Taiwan has reached at least 126.
2026-10-01
On October 1, the International Service for Human Rights announced that during the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Hong Kong activists Carmen Lau and Anna Kwok spoke to the Human Rights Council about the transnational repression they experienced and retaliatory actions in which their family members were implicated.
2026-09-29
A Chinese human rights report quoted Students for a Free Tibet and others as saying that police told them at least one person involved in the assault was not detained because he had diplomatic immunity; lawyer Samuel Bickett said police indicated that this person was part of the diplomatic delegation for Xi Jinping's visit.
2026-09-29
Investigative reporter Liu Hu wrote on September 29 that Wang Yufeng, the whistleblower in the case of Huawel Microelectronics' illegal and non-compliant information disclosure, was taken away by Jilin police from Shanghai in November 2022 and has been detained for nearly four years. The case has entered the CSRC's proposed whistleblower reward list; as of September 23, the trial had lasted a cumulative 107 days, and several of Wang Yufeng's sealed companies have become substantively bankrupt.
2026-09-22
At 5 PM on September 22, Shi Tingfu was officially informed of his death from "myocardial infarction" at Shahe Prison in the First Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. His son received a call from the prison at 10:30 PM that night. The family claims he was in good condition during a recent visit. Chinese human rights defenders' network demands medical records and an independent investigation.
2026-09-21
On September 21, official announcements stated that Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli were expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and the military due to serious violations of discipline and law.
2026-09-21
On September 21, the CCP Politburo meeting reviewed and approved disciplinary decisions for Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, both of whom were expelled from the Party and the military, and their suspected criminal matters were transferred to the military procuratorial organ for investigation and prosecution.
2026-09-20
Shandong petitioner Zhao Xigao was sentenced and imprisoned for demanding enforcement funds from a won lawsuit. His family accused that his legs and feet severely ulcerated and blackened in prison, and he eventually died behind bars.
2026-09-19
American seismologist Chen Youlin, detained in China, has been designated by the U.S. as "wrongfully detained." The White House stated that resolving cases of detained U.S. citizens has always been a top priority for the president.
2026-09-16
The Party Committee of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges held a meeting, openly calling for the resolute eradication of Bi Jingquan's pernicious influence.
2026-09-10
On September 10, 2026, the Jinjiang Branch of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau lifted the bail for Liu Hu due to changes in the case. Lawyer Zhou Ze posted the decision, announcing the end of the criminal prosecution initiated in February of this year, and Liu Hu will not need to stand trial.
2026-09-04
A Chinese national who has lived abroad for a long time said that police, on the pretext of a verification check, demanded their passport, visa, living and work details, WeChat records, as well as a video call and real-time location sharing.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, the Associated Press reported that Wang Xiahong, a partner at Beijing's Kaimen Law Firm, fled to Taiwan under the pressure of official orders to dissolve the firm after taking on the Zion Church case, and is seeking resettlement assistance.
2026-09
The CCP Central Committee announced that Zhang Youxia has been formally expelled from military rank and explicitly stated that he will be referred to a military court for trial, with the charges adjusted from violating Xi Jinping's personal will to betraying the entire party.
2026-09
Jie Lijian, a high-profile anti-communist overseas, was found slumped in a deep coma and vomiting blood in his residence in Flushing, New York, nearly two days after he went missing. The door was broken open by his landlord and friends, and poisoning is initially suspected; he was subsequently rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment.
2026-09
In Shenzhen, a father whose baby suffered permanent injuries from toxic milk powder produced in Guangdong hired a lawyer, who calculated compensation of over 2 million yuan. The company involved filed a police report claiming extortion, and the local Guangdong government arrested the father and sentenced him to several years in prison.
2026-09
After Bian Yuye was held in custody for more than three months, his daughter Bian Jin, who was still breastfeeding, was notified to cooperate with questioning and was detained. Father and daughter were held in the same compound but could not meet for 35 days. Defense lawyers said that before the daughter was detained, Bian Yuye consistently denied having profited, but afterward his confession reversed and he ultimately pleaded guilty.
2026-08-21
It is rumored that former Anta CEO Xu Yang sent a message after the flight to Los Angeles took off, celebrating that he finally fled China and reunited with his family.
2026-08-10
On August 10, 2026, the Yuanjiang County Court in Yunnan dismissed an administrative lawsuit filed by a man named Gao Guanghua. Gao had previously been wrongly detained for four days after questioning officials on WeChat Moments; after the police withdrew the penalty and offered compensation and an apology, the court ruled that the results of the police officers' accountability were an internal matter and, according to law, would not be made public.
2026-08-06
On August 6, police in Hengzhou, Guangxi, announced that as of that day they had investigated 25 online rumor cases related to the floods and administratively detained 24 people; a man who commented in a comment section that he had heard the flood killed tens of thousands was detained for 3 days.
2026-08-05
Ailuming's lawyer released news on August 5, 2026, stating that Ailuming has been criminally detained.
2026-08
After Xi Jinping came to power, Wu Zhengping, the nephew-in-law of Zhu Rongji, was required to hand back tens of billions of yuan in assets, step down from all his posts, and his personal spending was restricted.
2026-08
Sun Yuanping was interviewed in Melbourne, recounting his experience of choosing to "break out" due to long-term surveillance and exit bans, and disclosing that after his escape, several relatives and friends back home were criminally detained or harassed by police summons.
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2026-08
In August 2026, a special service recruitment posting circulated on social platforms showing that a resort renovation project in the Shisanling mountain area of Changping, Beijing, was contracted out to a property management company, with requirements to carry out high-intensity duties such as guarding political prisoners and rotating between standing and sitting shifts.
2026-07-17
Zhang Xinyan applied for release to travel to Canada to attend a hearing. Thai judges said the Chinese embassy opposed the release, arguing that freeing her could harm Thai-Chinese relations, and therefore rejected the application.
2026-07-16
On July 16, 2026, the human rights organization "Safeguard Defenders" released the investigative report "Behind Iron Bars," which, based on a survey of 59 former detainees, accuses China's prison system of routinely carrying out severe torture and abuse against both Chinese and foreign prisoners.
2026-07-16
On July 16, 2026, the Chinese government formally submitted an extradition request to Thailand, seeking the repatriation of former investigative journalist Bai Zhaodong, who fled abroad amid an investigation into corruption and is being detained in Bangkok. International human rights groups have urged Thailand to reject the extradition to prevent him from being subjected to torture.
2026-07-11
The mother of Ningbo's Little Luoxi was blocked by staff while traveling to disaster-stricken areas in Guangxi to donate money and supplies, and her accompanying personnel received inquiry calls from the Bureau of Justice.
2026-07-08
Ai Luming was reportedly arrested on July 8, 2026, and no related news has been publicly released for a month since then.
2026-07-08
On July 8, 2026, the public interest organization Asia Lawyers Network released a report disclosing that the crackdown on lawyers in China has extended to the civil and commercial sectors, with lawyers frequently facing criminal prosecution by authorities using criminal charges to replace civil litigation when handling civil and commercial disputes.
2026-07-08
On July 8, 2026, police in Qinzhou, Guangxi reported that a man was found by public security authorities to have fabricated rumors after posting disaster-related claims online, including the collapse of the Liulan Reservoir and the canal flooding the urban area, and was given an administrative penalty.
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2026-07-07
Gao Shanwen was diagnosed with lymphoma in January 2025 and passed away on July 7, 2027, sparking various speculations from the outside world regarding his cause of death.
2026-07-06
Japanese journalist Akio Yaita was attacked after a speech in Taichung, Taiwan. The Taiwanese government stated that this case is the first instance of transnational repression since the implementation of the Chinese Patriotic Education Law.
2026-07-04
Pastor Kim Min-chul was released on Independence Day, less than two months after the summit between Trump and Xi Jinping in May.
2026-07-04
In July 2026, Kim Myeong-il, a pastor of Beijing Zion Church, was released and arrived in the United States after high-level China-US negotiations, but eight other pastors and believers from the church, including Wang Lin, remain criminally detained on charges of illegally using information networks and face judicial prosecution.
2026-07
The US State Department said it has raised the Chen Youlin case with the Chinese side and called on China to immediately release the Chinese-American seismologist.
2026-07
Jin Mingri, a Beijing house church figure and founder of Zion Church, has been released after years of detention and flown to the United States by a chartered flight from Beijing.
2026-07
Pastor Jin Mingri has been released by the CCP. Host Hu Liren believes this is a signal of Xi Jinping 'kneeling and begging' to the United States, and predicts that Jimmy Lai will also be released soon.
2026-07
After Akio Yaita's speech, he was attacked at a hotel. The suspect changed clothes, headed to the airport and purchased a ticket to Busan, and was subsequently arrested by police; another associate was involved in the case.
2026-07
Akio Yaita was attacked and injured while walking on the street after leaving a venue in Taichung; whether the attacker had ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) remains disputed.
2026-07
A Myanmar anti-government figure was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party while attending a meeting in Kunming, and was subsequently handed over to Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing as a diplomatic gift.
2026-07
Taiwanese scholar and journalist Akio Yaita was attacked, and the program discussed the incident in connection with the CCP's cross-border repression issue.
2026-07
A port authority worker said that floating corpses have appeared on multiple rivers in inland China, with the claims referring to the phenomenon of civilian body recovery along the Yangtze River.
2026-06-26
On June 26, 2026, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress announced the termination of the qualifications of 14 deputies to the 14th National People's Congress, including Ma Xingrui, Xu Xueqiang, Li Fengbiao and Guo Puxiao; Li Fengbiao, Xu Xueqiang and Guo Puxiao are generals of the People's Liberation Army, and Xu Xueqiang is a member of the Central Committee.
2026-06-25
In the late night of June 26, 2026, Kazakh police searched the home of and took away Batikhan, sister of Atajurt founder Serikjan, ruling that she be held in custody for 10 days on suspicion of fraud; lawyers and human rights groups accused the move of being carried out under political pressure from the Chinese side to suppress overseas voices.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, the international human rights organization Safeguard Defenders released a report based on a survey of 84 former detainees, disclosing that China's detention centers are routinely plagued by obstruction of meetings with lawyers, bullying by inmate bosses, and violent abuse.
2026-06-16
In April 2026, the human rights organization Safeguard Defenders released the research report "Behind Iron Bars," based on interview records of nearly 100 detainees, systematically exposing human rights violations commonly found in Chinese detention centers, including the merging of investigation and detention, extraction of confessions through torture, extreme overcrowding, and a severe lack of medical care.
2026-06-10
On June 10, 2026, Chinese independent feminist and human rights activist Li Qiaochu sent an inquiry letter, legally filing an administrative reconsideration against the Shandong Provincial Prison Administration for its inaction on the marriage application of Xu Zhiyong, who is incarcerated.
2026-06-02
Li Xiaohong, former private secretary of Wang Qishan and former secretary of the CCP's China Securities Regulatory Commission Discipline Committee, has been placed under investigation by the CCP.
2026-06
The owner of a barbecue shop in Heze, Shandong reported to the authorities that a Yuan blue-and-white porcelain cup in the local museum was possibly missing and submitted evidence. Afterwards, the owner was repeatedly retaliated against and disciplined by multiple local government departments, ultimately forcing the barbecue shop to cease operations.
2026-06-01
On June 1, 2026, the Beijing Public Security Bureau formally notified the June Fourth victims' family group, the Tiananmen Mothers, that they are strictly forbidden from visiting Wan'an Cemetery on June 4 to mourn their killed relatives, changing a convention of many years and marking the first time in over 30 years that the victims' families have been completely banned from holding a public memorial.
2026-06
In June 2026, overseas political blogger "Toronto Fang Lian" publicly stated on social media that the CCP's state security department had sent a message through his family in China, offering to exchange his family's personal freedom for the deletion of his criticisms of Xi Jinping.
2026-05-25
On May 25, 2026, human rights activist Dong Guangping, who had been repeatedly sentenced and imprisoned by Chinese authorities, fled China by rubber boat and arrived in South Korea seeking humanitarian protection and asylum, in order to avoid being deported again or facing political persecution.
2026-05-25
On May 25, 2026, Wu Qiang, a citizen of Lianyungang, Jiangsu, posted a video accusing the authorities of sentencing him to one year in prison for 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble' after he monitored water pollution. Following his release, the Lianyungang Intermediate Court placed him under residential surveillance for another six months. He also disclosed that he was subjected to torture and abuse while in custody.
2026-05
In an interview published in May, Tahir Imin said he had been separated from his daughter for nine years, and that about 30 relatives had been detained by Chinese authorities because of his journalism.
2026-04-28
On April 28, 2026, Li Yunze was announced as removed from his posts of Party Secretary and Director of the National Financial Regulatory Administration; the next day his information was deleted from the leadership section of the official website, and he was later stripped of his status as a deputy to the National People's Congress.
2026-02
The 69-year-old father of pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok, who is wanted by Hong Kong police on national security charges, was sentenced to 8 months in prison this February for attempting to handle his daughter's insurance policy funds.
2026-01-20
According to sources outside the Great Firewall, Zhang Youxia, the first vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Liu Zhenli, the Chief of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, were both in trouble and arrested on January 20.
2026-01
Ten days after Discipline Inspection Commission Secretary Li Xi had assigned the year's full purge tasks, Zhang Youxia's incident occurred. Li Xi had received no prior wind of it and felt shocked and terrified.
2025-10-28
Chongqing police announced that they have opened a case against Shen Bayang on suspicion of the crime of splitting the country, and stated in the notice that a Taiwan civil defense organization is an organization that splits the country.
2025-10
According to accounts coming out of Beijing, Ma Xingrui was taken into custody around October 2025, after which he was dealt with and stripped of his Party membership and administrative posts.
2025-08
Reuters cited insiders as saying that Liu Jianchao's residence was searched in early August 2025.
2024-10
Ren Xinyi wrote an open letter stating that her father, Ren Zhiqiang, is suffering from a severe prostate condition and is in great pain in prison, and requested that he be granted medical parole.
2024-07
A relevant report documents 34 incidents of harassment and assault during the welcoming event in San Francisco and identifies 19 leaders of United Front overseas Chinese organizations, 12 of whom directly participated in the physical attacks, resulting in at least 3 people being hospitalized.
2023-07
Rocket Force commander Li Yuchao was purged after a US military report exposed the Rocket Force's deployment, leading to another round of purges throughout the Rocket Force.
2023
Ms. Ma Yongtian's son and husband were again summoned to a police station by the Changchun Municipal Public Security Bureau in 2023 and were granted conditional release on bail, meaning they are still considered criminal suspects.
2022-10-22
At the closing ceremony of the 20th CCP National Congress, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was escorted out of the venue by staff, and subsequently, Hu Chunhua was not included in the new Politburo list.
2022-10-22
At the closing ceremony of a major CCP meeting, former General Secretary Hu Jintao was escorted out of the venue by security guards in full view of the public, marking the complete bankruptcy of political norms such as inter-generational succession designation.
2021-09
Desmond Shum received the first phone call from Duan Weihong four years after her disappearance, just on the eve of the book's publication, followed by the official release of 'Red Roulette'.
2020-08-10
Hong Kong police conducted their first large-scale raid on the headquarters of Next Digital, paving the way for the subsequent closure of Apple Daily.
2020-07-23
Ren Zhiqiang's expulsion from the Chinese Communist Party was announced.
2020-07-23
The Chinese Communist Party issued a notice on disciplinary action against Ren Zhiqiang, listing as a problem his publication of articles publicly opposing the Four Cardinal Principles.
2020-04-28
As a virologist who experienced the 2019 turmoil in Hong Kong, Dr. Yan chose to flee to the U.S. and acted as a whistleblower to expose to the world the truth that the coronavirus originated from a Wuhan laboratory.
2020-04-28
In April 2020, Dr. Yan was forced to flee due to certain statements she made, and she once went to the White House to report what she knew as a virologist.
2017-11
Cai Qi, then Beijing Party Secretary, stressed at a meeting that bayonets must draw blood, and directed the large-scale expulsion of Beijing's low-end population, which left large numbers of people sleeping on the streets in the bitter winter and drew worldwide condemnation.
2016-11
Two female independent candidates in Beijing running for grassroots People's Congress deputy were surrounded and obstructed by a large number of men in black, and their qualifications were ultimately revoked.
2016-02-19
Ren Zhiqiang publicly questioned on Weibo that “party media are partisan”, prompting a concentrated criticism by official media, and was labeled “anti-party” etc.
2013-08-23
On the evening of August 23, 2013, 13 days after attending the Social Responsibility Forum for Internet Celebrities, Xue Manzi, who had 12 million followers on Weibo, was arrested in a residential compound in Anhuibeili, Chaoyang District, Beijing on suspicion of soliciting prostitution, and was subsequently forced to make a televised confession of about 10 minutes, stating that he had spread false information.
2012
The film When Night Falls, directed by Shanghai-based director Ying Liang, tells from the perspective of Yang Jia's mother, Wang Jingmei, her experience of being illegally confined in a psychiatric hospital after her son's arrest and her subsequent efforts on his behalf. The film was screened at the Jeonju International Film Festival and the Locarno Film Festival in 2012, where Ying Liang won the Best Director award at Locarno, after which he left Shanghai following threats of arrest.
2010-06-12
On June 12, 2010, Li Tucun, the former president and chairman of the board of the former Hunan Taizunai Group, who once pioneered the golden age of Chinese lactic acid bacteria beverages and twice won the CCTV 'Advertising King' title, was formally placed under criminal detention by the Zhuzhou Public Security Bureau of Hunan Province for suspected illegal absorption of public deposits. On July 20 of the same year, his arrest was approved by the Zhuzhou prosecutorial owns. Previously, the Taizunai Group had experienced a broken capital chain due to the Hunan financial storm of 2008 and the gambling agreement crisis with investment banks during its rapid expansion. To save itself, the group had raised funds from employees and distributors as payment reserves. In 2009, the Zhuzhou municipal government led the establishment of Gaoke Dairy Industry to implement trusteeship. During this period, Li Tucun and the trusteeship group and local officials had a heated conflict over corporate control and restructuring plans. After being detained for approximately 15 months, the Tianyuan District People's Procuratorate of Zhuzhou City issued a 'Non-Prosecution Decision' on January 20, 2012, ruling that his borrowing was of the nature of private lending and corporate financing, and did not constitute a crime. Li Tucun was eventually releaseds without charge.
2004-07-19
After being released on July 19, 2004, Jiang Yanyong remained under long-term surveillance and in a state of house arrest; on March 22, 2005 he regained freedom of movement, but was told he was barred from accepting interviews and given other restrictions, and approval to go abroad was not granted.
2000
Hu Liren said that during a dinner with leaders of Shanghai Qingpu Prison, he asked whether a large number of Falun Gong practitioners had been arrested and had their organs harvested while in prison, and the other party retorted, "How do you know?" before admitting that this had happened.
2000
A male Falun Gong practitioner from Shanghai whom Hu Liren met in Flushing, New York, said that he was sentenced and imprisoned in a Shanghai prison for practicing Falun Gong. While in prison, he was pinned to the ground with a chair pressed against him, and prison guards repeatedly shocked his head with multiple electric batons until he lost consciousness, leaving a large swelling on his head.
1989-06-06
At 20:43 on the evening of June 6, 1989, Train No. 161 traveling from Beijing to Shanghai entered the Guangxin Road railway crossing in Putuo District and plowed into a crowd gathered to mourn the victims of June Fourth and protest the massacre, killing 6 people and seriously injuring 6 others. The tragedy enraged the people at the scene; tens of thousands gathered in protest, train carriages were set on fire, and Beijing–Shanghai railway traffic was cut off. The incident is known as the "Guangxin Road Crossing Incident" or the "Shanghai June 6 Incident."
1987-01-16
Following the ongoing spread of the 1986 student protests, Deng Xiaoping criticized the central leadership for being weak on the ideological and theoretical front, and Hu Yaobang subsequently resigned from his position as General Secretary of the CCP Central Committee.
1986-02-21
Larry Wu-Tai Chin died in a federal prison in Virginia. While prison officials concluded it was suicide, his cause of death has sparked skepticism from the public and prosecutors.
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1978-01
Han Xiu, a Chinese-language writer holding U.S. citizenship who had remained in China for about 30 years, returned to the United States in January 1978; she claimed to be the first among U.S. citizens who had remained in mainland China after 1949 to return to the United States, and she received assistance from the State Department.
1970
In 1970, Zhu Rongji was assigned to a May 7 Cadre School with extremely poor conditions to work full-time raising pigs, from the age of 42 to 47, a period of five years.
1969-11-12
After enduring prolonged and brutal persecution and detention in Kaifeng, Henan, Liu Shaoqi passed away from illness in the early morning of November 12, 1969, and was cremated immediately.
1968
Wen Jiabao, who graduated with a graduate degree in 1968, was labeled a rightist and sent to a farm in Jiuquan, Gansu for a year of reform-through-labor after speaking out against physical violence at a struggle session.
1967-09-18
In 1968, Jiang Qing announced Liu Shaoqi as a major special agent and traitor when receiving the Peking Opera Troupe. During the Cultural Revolution, numerous political figures and intellectuals suffered brutal persecution.
1967
After the Cultural Revolution began in 1967, Jiang Zemin was subjected to two years of reform through labor due to his family background and inappropriate remarks.
1966
Deng Xiaoping was labeled the second-numbered capitalist road faction within the Party, was sent to labor reform in Jiangxi, and his son Deng Pufang was tortured by Red Guards, resulting in disability.
1964
Han Xiu said that with the launch of the Socialist Education Movement in 1964, class backgrounds were upgraded: in rural areas, middle peasants could be labeled as rich peasants and rich peasants as landlords, and many young people were consequently affected in their school advancement.
1963
Because the 10th Panchen Lama cooperated with the CCP in negotiations to seek benefits for Tibetans, he was placed under house arrest and denounced in struggle sessions from 1963 to 1977. After the Cultural Revolution ended, he was rehabilitated, and from then on always served as a buffering force between the central authorities and the Tibetan region.
1958-01
During the 1957 rectification campaign, he was labeled a Rightist for offering opinions, expelled from the Party, removed from his posts, sent down to do manual labor, and went through the Cultural Revolution.
1957-06
In the Anti-Rightist Campaign, the Chinese Communist Party labeled some individuals as rightists because intellectuals had voiced their opinions, and the people involved and their families subsequently suffered long-term political and social consequences.
1957
As General Secretary of the Secretariat of the CCP Central Committee, Deng Xiaoping was the frontline commander of the Anti-Rightist Campaign. He drafted documents and issued rigid quotas for the arrest of "rightists," leading to 550,000 intellectuals being labeled as such.
1952-05-05
Zhao Hanqi, a former Kuomintang military general who resisted Soviet invasions in the defense battles of Yining and Aksu in Xinjiang and later participated in the Xinjiang Peaceful Liberation, was publicly executed by the Chinese Communist Party during the Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries campaign at the age of 39.
1952-01-25
In 1952, affected by campaigns such as the Three-Anti and Five-Anti movements, a large number of capitalists and merchants in Shanghai chose to commit suicide by jumping from buildings, unable to bear the persecution.
1951
By the end of 1951, the CCP's campaign to suppress counter-revolutionaries had led to the abnormal deaths of about 2 million people.
1950-10-10
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) carries out a crackdown on counter-revolutionary movements, aiming to eliminate various personnel that threaten the regime, resulting in about 2,000,000 deaths.
1933
In Ruijin, Jiangxi, Deng Xiaoping was labeled a Maoist for supporting Mao Zedong's line, subjected to struggle sessions and removed from his post. His wife, Jin Weiying, not only denounced him but also remarried Li Weihan, who had denounced him.
1930-12-12
The CCP launched the Fujian Incident in the Jiangxi Soviet Area, using the excuse of the "AB Tuan" to brutally purge the Jiangxi local faction and the 20th Red Army, resulting in the execution of two to three thousand people.