2026-11-12
After being detained in a detention center for 544 days, Pastor Gao Quanfu of the Zion Light Church went on trial in an open court on November 12 on charges of "fraud." Friends and family have called on believers to attend the hearing.
2026-11-07
Recently, Wang Xiuying, a villager from Lifan Village, Xiabaishi Town, Fu'an City, Fujian Province, recorded her experience of petitioning in Beijing: her grievances remain unresolved, submitting materials has become even more difficult, and she was expelled from Beijing. She describes this as a typical portrayal of the implementation of the new 'July 1st' petition regulations.
2026-11-06
Petitioners line up to submit materials at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls on Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing (commonly known as Jia-1). Staff told them not to record video, and when petitioners asked what was wrong with recording, a dispute broke out.
[Follow-up · November 7, 2026] On November 7, a large number of petitioners were seen lining up at the State Bureau for Letters and Calls reception office in Beijing to register their complaints, and the scene was recorded and posted.
2026-11-06
On the morning of November 6, lawyer Fan Chen was attending a court hearing at the Zhangjiakou Intermediate People's Court in Hebei Province when the presiding judge, surnamed Zhong, demanded he put away his water cup. Fan Chen questioned the legal basis for this demand and refused to hand over the cup. The presiding judge then called in bailiffs and announced an adjournment, with the date for the resumed hearing to be notified later.
2026-11-06
On November 6, petitioners in Beijing queued at the petition reception office of the Supreme People's Court, located at No. 40 Hongsi Village, Xiaohongmen Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing, to submit their case filing materials.
2026-11-05
On November 5, the Hong Kong High Court sentenced Joshua Wong to an additional 10 years in prison for "conspiracy to collude with foreign forces" for his 2020 calls for foreign sanctions against the Chinese and Hong Kong governments. The remaining two months of his original sentence can be counted, and he must serve until November 2036.
2026-11-05
X user Cyberxinfang posted a documentary of recent petitioners visiting the Supreme People's Court Petition Reception Office located at No. 40 Hongsi Village, Xiaohongmen Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
2026-11-04
On November 4, the People's Court of Zuoquan County, Shanxi Province, delivered a first-instance verdict: Zhang Mouguo was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the crimes of rape and molestation of a child, and Zhang Moulin was sentenced to 10 years in prison for rape. Both defendants stated in court that they would not appeal. Bu, a female master's degree holder who had been missing for over a decade due to mental illness, was sexually assaulted by two fellow villagers after being found.
2026-11-04
User Cyberxinfang posted a submission stating that Chinese petitioners waiting at Jiujingzhuang are served only ham, pickled mustard greens, and steamed buns for all three meals a day. Any leftovers are taken out of the center, and the situation for petitioners has worsened following the implementation of new petitioning regulations.
2026-11-04
Recently, petitioners in Beijing have been visiting the petition reception office of the Supreme People's Court, located at No. 40 Hongsi Village, Xiaohongmen Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
2026-11-04
Mr. Liu stated that he did not receive valid notices for the court hearing or the judgment. His application for a retrial was rejected by the Dengzhou City Court on the grounds that service via SMS and phone call was legal. On November 4, the original trial judge responded that the retrial application had been answered and that it was inconvenient to accept an interview.
2026-11-03
On November 3, during an online patrol, the Rongchang Public Security Bureau in Chongqing discovered individuals insulting each other. Upon visiting their homes, they confirmed that both parties were minors and provided them with criticism and education.
Location: Rongchang District, Chongqing ·
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2026-11-02
On November 2, a draft amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law of the PRC was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for its first review. It proposes to explicitly write for the first time that 'no person shall be found guilty without a judgment by a people's court in accordance with the law, and presumption of guilt is prohibited,' and intends to restrict the application of residential surveillance in designated locations. Scholars warn that adding these six characters requires a systematic upgrade of provisions regarding evidence and the right to defense.
2026-11
After examining relevant recordings and evidence and summoning the defendants, the prosecutor determined that the content in the livestream where Da Shixiong, Xiao Wei, and others accused Guan Chang was well-founded, and decided not to prosecute.
2026-11
Recently, several railway photography enthusiasts were taken away by local personnel while filming train operations near the perimeter fence of Yuding Station in Jiangsu. They were accused of espionage, their mobile phones were confiscated for data extraction, and they were ordered to delete their photos. They were released after being detained for over 48 hours, during which no written documentation was provided, and their phones were not returned.
2026-11
Recently, petitioners overcame numerous difficulties to reach Beijing, arriving at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls at No. 1A Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing. Suspected of lacking provincial-level documentation, they were unable to submit their grievances and were pushed out of the compound by security guards.
[Follow-up · November 7, 2026] On November 7, according to the on-site situation posted by Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher, there were many petitioners at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls, with petitioners from various regions queuing to register their complaints.
2026-11
The court determined that there was a causal link between the assault and the victim's death from cerebral infarction. In the first instance, the assailant was ordered to bear 70% of the liability and pay over 846,500 yuan to the victim's family. After the assailant appealed, the Zhengzhou Intermediate Court recently rejected the appeal in the second instance and upheld the original verdict.
2026-10-31
On October 31, the topic of "sexual consent determination" in the case of Bu, a female master's degree holder who was "taken in," reached the Weibo trending list, peaking at No. 13. Bu suffers from schizophrenia and lacks the capacity for sexual self-defense. She cohabited with Zhang Moujun for over a decade without a marriage certificate. Zhang Moujun was not prosecuted, while two villagers were publicly prosecuted.
2026-10-31
Prosecutors argued that Zhang Moujun's long-term stable cohabitation with and care for Bu Mou, a missing female master's student suffering from schizophrenia and lacking the capacity for sexual self-defense, constituted "forming a family and living together," which is "fundamentally different" from the crime of rape, and thus decided not to prosecute. His collection of a 40,000 yuan "adoption fee" for giving away a child was also deemed a private adoption and not a crime.
2026-10-30
Polish police and a group of newly appointed judges appeared at the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw. The new judges announced the suspension of the original president and vice-president, sparking accusations from conservatives that the Tusk government is seizing power and staging a coup.
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.
2026-10-27
On October 27, netizens posted a "friendly reminder" from the Xihu Court in Hangzhou: The annual number of first-instance civil cases is expected to exceed 20,000, while there are fewer than 40 frontline civil and commercial judges. Newly filed cases generally require a wait of more than 6 months for a scheduled hearing; parties are asked to wait patiently.
2026-10-25
The Haibowan Branch and Wuda Branch of the Wuhai Public Security Bureau in Inner Mongolia carried out “distant-water fishing” against a Beijing entrepreneur — recovering assets before filing a case — involving 9.9 million yuan. The person involved has奔波 six years and won lawsuits repeatedly, yet the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau has kept the money and still has not returned it.
2026-10-23
The trial of Shenyang petitioner Fu Youling, charged with the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, has opened; the prosecution recommended a fixed-term prison sentence of two years.
2026-10-22
The New Taipei District Prosecutors Office has indicted Taiwanese accomplices involved in the operation against Huang Yihao, with sentences ranging from 2 years and 7 months to more than 5 years and 6 months.
2026-10-21
According to a New Yellow River report on October 21, when iQIYI sued Xunlei, it listed a Huizhou car rental company as a defendant and sought 50,000 yuan in compensation, claiming that the company's vehicles came "pre-installed" with the software. The owner of the rental company said the software was installed by the renter after picking up the car. A lawyer interviewed believes the move was intended to use the rental company's location to argue for trying the dispute with Shenzhen-based Xunlei in Huizhou.
2026-10-19
The Ministry of Justice, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, the National Health Commission, and the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration jointly issued standards defining the scope of serious illnesses and criteria for identifying inability to care for oneself for temporary execution of sentences outside prison.
2026-10-19
Zhou Lubao, who had actively participated in public discussions and helped workers demand unpaid wages, was sentenced by a Lanzhou court to 14 years in prison for extortion. Netizens posted lamenting that the one who fought for others' wages was instead heavily punished.
2026-10-19
According to videos and remarks posted by X user @clashreport, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, when talking about Britain, publicly criticized that today's Britain is called "Islamized Britain," that 3,000 Britons have been brought to court for posting tweets and other remarks online, and that a considerable number of them have been imprisoned as a result.
2026-10-17
According to Radio France Internationale (RFI), the new U.S. White House press secretary, Zakaria, publicly admitted that he had failed the American bar exam. In addition, his past work experience in China has also drawn widespread attention and discussion from the outside world.
2026-10-17
According to X account @ChinaSelect, Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong has been imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 2020 for his pro-democracy activities. U.S. Representative Moolenaar praised his courage and officially nominated Joshua Wong for the Defending Freedoms Project of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in Congress, with the relevant committee and its chair issuing statements of support.
2026-10-17
According to a tip-off from X user @LeiYang8964, a mainland Chinese netizen was sentenced by the authorities to three years and six months in prison for the crime of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" after posting remarks on an overseas social platform that defamed and attacked the country's leaders and the national system. This incident reflects the Chinese government's severe control over and punishment of domestic netizens' speech on overseas platforms.
2026-10-16
According to Twitter user @LeiYang8964, netizen "Ayu" was previously detained for nearly a year after calling the police to have himself arrested, and has now been released. The post says Ayu was held over his own actions and has now completed his sentence and regained his freedom. The incident has drawn attention on social media, and the relevant details as well as the specific reason for calling the police remain to be further verified.
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 a report by Red Star News on October 15, in the case of the elderly man's death in Xiangcheng, the family denies any intent to kill, the defense questions the causal link between the obstruction of rescue and the death, multiple relatives have filed appeals, and the case is still under second-instance trial.
2026-10-15
On October 15, a journalism graduate in his 40s wrote to writer Lian Yue's Q&A column "I Love Asking Lian Yue," saying that after the decline of print media he switched to law, has earned almost no income this year, cannot pay social insurance and the housing provident fund, works part-time washing kitchen utensils for just over 20 yuan an hour, with both hands stiff and swollen, and that his father was diagnosed with cancer early this year.
2026-10-14
On October 14, 2026, according to posts on social media, a 16-year-old student was raped and murdered and her body thrown downstairs; when the body was found, it was naked and had two knives stuck in her back. Reports indicate the killer is suspected to be the child of a Chinese Communist Party official, and afterwards local authorities disguised the case as a suicide by jumping from a building, while tightly controlling the victim's family, forbidding any pursuit of accountability or speaking out. The incident has sparked intense fear and condemnation among netizens over public security and judicial injustice.
2026-10-14
Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court overturned the death sentence handed down to 27-year-old Sri Lankan migrant worker Anojan Sivadasa. Sivadasa was convicted of blasphemy in September over comments on Facebook insulting the Prophet Muhammad. He deleted the comments and apologized, but was still arrested.
2026-10-14
In the Zhejiang Financial Center incident, the grandmother of Zhu Yidan, a detained rights defender and doctoral student, spoke out in a group chat, issuing 'Ten Questions of Blood and Tears.' She stated that her granddaughter has been detained for 9 months and denied bail, accused of 'conspiracy' merely for forwarding rights-defense information, and questioned where the social danger lies.
2026-10-14
According to reports by The Paper and Red Star News in October 2026, the family said that as of October 14 they had still not received the more than 62,000 yuan in compensation ordered by the court.
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.
2026-10-10
The Intermediate People's Court of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, sentenced Zhou Xianwang of Hubei to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes, finding that the total amount of bribes accepted amounted to more than 60.5 million yuan.
2026-10-10
After completing probation in March 2026, David Xu applied to have his felony conviction vacated. The victim opposed the application and released surveillance footage he had filmed himself in 2019, which shows Xu pouring liquid into a water bottle and then putting it back in place. The victim demanded nearly $500,000 in compensation, but the court awarded only $7,058.
Location: California, United States ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2026-10-09
A man surnamed Zhou in Mian County, Shaanxi, fought a lawsuit against the local government for 8 years up to the Supreme Court over the forced demolition of his house. The original ruling of 700 yuan per square meter was overturned by the court, and compensation was set at 100 yuan per square meter, based on the standard for pigsties.
2026-10-08
U.S. court records show that Maduro and his wife Flores face additional charges in the United States of conspiring to commit torture, drug terrorism, and weapons-related crimes; the court subsequently rejected their bail application.
2026-10-08
Wang Qishan's old subordinate Xu Chuanzhi was sentenced to 12 years at first instance; the verdict mentioned that he voluntarily confessed most of the criminal facts unknown to the case-handling authorities.
2026-10-08
On October 8, according to Xiaoxiang Morning News, a person surnamed Lu submitted an application for state compensation of about 4.237 million yuan, including about 3.02 million yuan for his father's medical, death, and funeral expenses, and demanded that the court issue a public apology and hold the relevant case-handling personnel accountable.
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.
2026-10-08
On October 8, lawyer Cai Yaqi posted that he will no longer accept submissions involving prisons, the judiciary, or administrative reconsideration.
2026-10-08
The father of Lu Moumou once returned 25,000 yuan to the lover in hopes of obtaining forgiveness; after his son's conviction was overturned to not guilty, he sued to recover the money, but the court still rejected it.
2026-10-07
On October 7, according to CBS, Zhang Wanying, suspected of surveilling Lai Ching-te's son, offered three properties worth more than $1.2 million as collateral and agreed to electronic monitoring, but a judge at the federal court in Los Angeles ruled that she posed a flight risk, citing her possession of a Chinese passport she had not surrendered, her family's financial ties in China, and inconsistent statements about her assets, and ordered that she remain in custody. Prosecutors also disclosed that another person in the same case had already traveled to China on a one-way ticket.
2026-10-06
Red Star News previously reported that in the same dispute over the death of a cherry tree, self-media writer Li Guangjun was found by a court to have committed reputation infringement for publishing related articles and was ordered to pay 200,000 yuan in economic losses; the three articles involved totaled only 103 reads.
2026-10-05
On October 5, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had filed denaturalization lawsuits against 40 naturalized citizens suspected of serious crimes, the largest number in a single period under the Trump administration. Among them, Li Ping pleaded guilty in 2024 for gathering intelligence for China's Ministry of State Security, and Wei Jinchao was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for selling military secrets to China.
2026-10-02
A Douyin user in Rizhao, Shandong posted a video showing himself driving a tractor bearing the slogan "Wei Guang Zheng" through the streets, and said he had been suppressed in the past for rights defense.
2026-10-01
On October 1, 2026, as the rights-defense video of "CC Who Takes Phones" trended across the entire internet, a number of authoritative mainstream media outlets, including Sina Technology, Tencent News, My Drivers (Quick Technology), and China Youth Daily, followed up with in-depth reports and special investigations. Legal scholars and senior criminal lawyers, in interviews with the media, made clear that using generative AI technology (DeepFake) to synthesize fake, indecent photos and videos of others is by no means an ordinary civil infringement of portrait rights or reputation, but a serious illegal and criminal act that crosses the bottom line of the law: a person who uses AI to generate obscene image collections and sells them across platforms for profit is already suspected of constituting the crimes of "insult," "defamation," and "profiting from disseminating obscene materials" under criminal law; combined with malicious doxxing (human flesh search box-opening) behavior, this further raises suspicion of the crime of "infringing on citizens' personal information." The legal community is calling on judicial authorities to step up the crackdown and sever the black-and-gray industrial chain that uses open-source technology to fabricate pornographic rumors for profit.
2026-09-29
Netizen Cyberxinfang said that last year he received petition materials from Yanhu District, Yuncheng, Shanxi. The petitioner alleged that local gangsters colluded with government officials in the long-term gang rape of her granddaughter, and that she was threatened with lifetime imprisonment if she petitioned again. She has since gone missing, and he is now publicly soliciting information about the case.
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.
2026-09-29
On September 29, China Blue News reported that the case of a female teacher in Shaanxi who died after being dragged has undergone a major reclassification: all 5 defendants, including Xiao, have been indicted on charges of intentional homicide. Previously, 2 were charged with causing a traffic accident, 1 with shielding a criminal, and the other 2 had not been held criminally responsible.
2026-09-28
Japan's Teikoku Databank announced a survey on September 28, listing the revised Counter-Espionage Law, rare earth export restrictions, and price competition with Chinese government-backed companies as business risks in China, and pointing out that deteriorating China-Japan relations and economic stagnation affect corporate decision-making.
2026-09-26
Around September 26, the Ministry of State Security publicly released three closed espionage cases in a batch: aerospace researcher Zhao Xuejun was recruited and turned by overseas agents to steal secrets and was sentenced to seven years; exchange student Xiao Zhe who went to Taiwan for an exchange program was cultivated by Taiwan Military Intelligence Bureau agent Xu Liting and leaked nearly 100 pieces of national defense science and industry intelligence; public official Zhang stationed abroad was coerced into espionage through a honey trap; all were held criminally responsible.
2026-09-25
The Douyin, Weibo, and Bilibili accounts of anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi have published no new content since their last update on September 25. As of October 7, they have been inactive for nearly two weeks, and many netizens have asked in the comments about his safety.
2026-09-25
On September 25, a netizen from Fujian posted that after traveling to Hong Kong to purchase an iPhone on the official Apple website, they received an SMS from China Merchants Bank (CMB). The message stated that, following instructions from the police and in accordance with the Anti-Telecom and Online Fraud Law, temporary protective measures had been taken on all bank cards under their name, suspending both counter and non-counter services. The netizen claimed they only used credit cards and Alipay while in Hong Kong, with the rest being cash transactions.
2026-09-24
Wang Xiuying, a villager group leader in Fu'an, Fujian, has been litigating since 2000 against the government's illegal issuance of certificates for 371 mu of village farmland to businessmen. Courts at the county, city, and provincial levels have failed to review the legality of the certificate issuance, focusing only on her standing as a plaintiff and whether the case constitutes a petitioning issue.
2026-09-23
Bian Yuye, former chairman of Dafeng Rural Commercial Bank in Jiangsu, was accused of embezzling more than 15.9 million yuan and was held in detention (liuzhi) at a detention site in Zhangjiagang for 168 days. According to a September 23 report by investigative journalists Wu Yingjiao and Liu Hu, after the case-handling authorities checked the accounts, real estate and wealth-management products of him and his relatives, they found no evidence that he profited from the transactions of the two properties involved in the case; his defense lawyer entered a not-guilty plea.
2026-09-22
The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court announced the first-instance verdict in the corruption and bribery case of Zhao Lei, former general manager of the Beijing Cultural Investment Development Group, sentencing him to life imprisonment, depriving him of political rights for life, and confiscating all his personal property.
2026-09-21
On September 21, a tenant in Shenzhen failed to register a visiting friend, resulting in the landlord being taken to a police station, detained for 12 hours, and facing a fine of 1,000 yuan. The landlord demanded the tenant share the fine.
2026-09-19
On September 19, the Beijing Municipal Market Regulation Bureau announced that it has launched investigations into four online hotel and travel platforms—Fliggy, Tongcheng, Tujia, and Meituan—for suspected illegal activities. On the same day, the China Hotel Association pointed out that these platforms are involved in issues such as high commissions, forced bundling, and data opacity, and called on them to make their search ranking and commission rate rules public.
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
On September 19, Hong Guangyu, a former reporter for the Beijing Science and Technology Report and a popular science author on food safety, was taken away across provinces in Xiamen by the Zhongshan Branch of the Dalian Public Security Bureau. He was criminally detained on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble and is currently being held at the Dalian Detention Center. Netizens exposed the incident on September 24, and his family confirmed it.
2026-09-17
On September 17, it was circulated online that the Justice Bureau of Puan County, Guizhou Province, issued a notice requiring local lawyers, when handling cases related to cracking down on organized crime, to report to the county justice bureau for study and obtain approval before they can present defense arguments that involve changing the characterization of a crime, and demanding that all law firms strictly enforce this.
2026-09-15
On September 15, the Jinan Intermediate People's Court in Shandong Province delivered a first-instance verdict, sentencing Bi Jingquan to 14 years in prison and a fine of 5 million yuan for accepting bribes totaling over 57.42 million yuan between 1995 and 2025 by abusing his official positions. Bi Jingquan previously served as Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council and Director of the State Food and Drug Administration.
2026-09-16
On September 16, Dalian fruit grower Yu Kewei, who participated in the rights-defense campaign over the death of cherry trees, was approved for arrest on suspicion of the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble; the charges are related to his online speech. Ji Xiaowei and several other fruit growers engaged in rights defense had previously been arrested as well.
2026-09-15
Xie Weiyaxing, wife of US scholar Mingen who is illegally detained by China, revealed that US consular officials visited Mingen for the fourth time on September 15. He was in good spirits and earnestly requested President Trump to raise this case at the summit.
2026-09-07
On the evening of June 28, 2026, Lin from Haoba Town, Junlian County, Sichuan Province was raped by town government staff Jie. The assault took place in the restroom of Lin's own barbecue shop. Police accepted the case on June 30. On July 16, the Junlian County Public Security Bureau refused to file the case, citing "no criminal facts occurred"; the criminal review on August 10 also refused to file. Later, the Yibin Public Security Bureau, on September 7, re‑examined and concluded that the case "had criminal facts," pointing out the county bureau's error and insufficient evidence, and revoked its decision not to file. Lin, after the case was not processed in time, attempted suicide by wrist‑cutting and was later diagnosed with severe depression. Suspect Jie denied the rape in an interview on September 11, calling it "a small misunderstanding" and saying the disciplinary committee had intervened. On the morning of September 12, Lin received a "Case Filing Notice" issued by the Junlian County Public Security Bureau.
Location: Junlian County, Sichuan ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2026-08-06
Yin Jiangen, a self-media person from Zhuzhou, was arrested across provinces in August 2025 for posting criticisms of officials, including Liu Ying, the Party Secretary of Liyang Town, Hexian County, Anhui Province. On August 6, 2026, the Hexian Court sentenced him to two years and three months in prison in the first instance for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. Yin Jiangen disagreed and filed an appeal.
2026-09-11
On September 11, the first instance trial for the influencer Tietou's extortion case concluded, with him being sentenced to eight years in prison for multiple crimes. After the verdict was announced, comment sections on social media platforms showed polarized opinions, sparking public discussion on the boundaries and social roles of online anti-fraud activities.
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.
2026-09-12
Around September 12, 2026, Tietou and his team members shouted "We are innocent" in court. Supporters believe their actions challenged the authorities rather than constituting extortion, while some self-media outlets accused them of extortion.
2026-09-12
The Shanghai Maritime Court's ruling in the "Dortmund Express" case was listed by the Financial Times as one of the cases showing that China's foreign-related rule-of-law tools are actually being used for real.
2026-09-11
On September 11, the Chengguan District Court in Lanzhou delivered its first-instance verdict: migrant worker Jing Shuren was found guilty of nine counts of picking quarrels and provoking trouble for reposting posts demanding unpaid wages and debt collection, and was sentenced to 4 years; Zhou Lubao, a co-defendant, received 14 years for picking quarrels and provoking trouble and extortion. Jing Shuren was the only one of the seven defendants who had not taken a single cent. Prosecutors had recommended a sentence of 7 years and 6 months; after the charge of leading an evil force was dropped and he was reclassified as an accomplice, he was still sentenced to 4 years. All seven stated in court that they would appeal.
2026-09-11
On September 11, the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts in Hong Kong delivered its verdict in the case of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (the Alliance) inciting subversion of state power: former vice-chair Chow Hang-tung was sentenced to 7 years and 3 months in prison, former chair Lee Cheuk-yan was sentenced to 7 years, and former vice-chair Albert Ho was sentenced to 5 years and 2 months. The disbanded Alliance was fined 1.5 million HKD (approximately 190,000 USD).
2026-09-10
According to courtroom records cited by the Luther Society program, the Huawei RICO case trial entered its second day. Huawei's lawyers made excuses from multiple angles, and the judge interrupted them several times, demanding that they stick to the point.
2026-03
Hu Hongling, a lawyer at Anhui Qingheqing Law Firm, sparked heated online discussion after sharing a PPT on layoff optimization paths inspired by the "Xingyu Incident".
2026-09-08
According to a September 2026 video by Hu Liren's "True China," an elderly man sat down at the entrance of a shop and suffered a fatal heart attack. The shop owner went forward to help him, and the process was captured on surveillance camera. Afterwards, the man's family demanded hundreds of thousands of yuan in compensation from the shop owner and took the matter to court. The court sided with the family, and the shop owner ultimately paid the compensation.
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, several migrant workers in Guangxi hung banners outside the gate of the Southwest Company of CCCC First Harbor Engineering Bureau and blocked the entrance with vehicles to demand unpaid wages; after rights defenders posted videos online, they were intimidated and threatened with charges such as "picking quarrels and provoking trouble."
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.
2026-09-03
On September 3, 2026, a large number of food delivery riders in Guangzhou had their order-taking accounts banned by platforms; traffic authorities and platforms jointly demanded that riders must pay off all accumulated fines for violations such as running through bridges and tunnels caught on camera before their accounts can be unblocked.
2026-09
The influencer "Tietou" (Dong Guangming) was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Binjiang Court in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, for organizing a team to expose social darkness, including scams involving elderly health products and shortchanging at seafood markets. His team members were also sentenced. The official reason given was "extortion," but the video argues this is a fabricated charge aimed at suppressing those who reveal the truth.
2026-09
Wang Xiahong and her family of three flew from Japan to Singapore, and while transiting through Taiwan, they jumped ship. The Mainland Affairs Council agreed to provide temporary shelter and stated they would arrange for entry into a third country.
2026-09
In 2025, the Supreme People's Procuratorate handled nearly 20,000 supervision cases concerning irregular cross-jurisdictional law enforcement and profit-driven law enforcement, supervised the withdrawal of 2,471 cases, decided not to prosecute 3,539 individuals, and supervised the release or return of seized, detained, or frozen assets totaling 2.63 billion yuan.
2026-09
From March 2025 to the end of March 2026, the Ministry of Justice carried out a special campaign to regulate administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, identifying and correcting over 66,000 problem leads, recovering 30.7 billion yuan in economic losses for enterprises, and seeing the national total of administrative inspections drop by 34% year on year.
2026-09
The national security reporting and acceptance platform 12339.gov.cn carried the full text of the Implementing Regulations of the Counter-Espionage Law of the People's Republic of China, defining espionage acts, the identification of hostile organizations, and citizens' obligations and legal responsibilities.
2026-09
According to prosecutors' confirmation to the family members, the Shaoyang County Procuratorate issued a Notice to Correct Illegalities to the court twice in 2026 regarding Zheng Shuai's prolonged detention; the family members have not yet received the notice, and the court replied that it is still "under internal study."
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
The Xinpu Branch of the Zunyi Public Security Bureau busted a criminal gang led by Lü Xiaohong and Bao Yanchuan. Since 2025, the gang had set up restaurants at the intersections of highway toll stations in Xiazi Town and Yaxi Town, using lucky draws to draw in customers, harassing and intimidating passing travelers, forcing them to buy inferior products at inflated prices, and carrying out extortion, forced transactions, fraud and other illegal activities. 28 suspects were arrested.
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.
2026-09
Bian Yuye recalled that while he was held in detention he was handcuffed behind his back, subjected to freezing punishment in low temperatures, deprived of sleep and subjected to other restrictions, and was also ordered to slap himself hard in the face, with a single instance reaching more than 800 slaps. His defense lawyer questioned the way evidence was obtained during the trial and requested the complete interrogation footage.
2026-09
According to a submission received by the X account "Po Mu Tui Qiang" (Breaking the Wall), during a trial at the Shenzhen Luohu Court over a transfer dispute involving an extramarital affair, the defendant explained the transfers received as a response to the call of the Party and General Secretary Xi, saying that getting rich is inseparable from the Party's wise leadership, sparking discussion among spectators.
2026-09
After Taizi Milk fell into a debt storm and was placed under government trusteeship in 2008, Wen Dibo, who was responsible for the trusteeship at the time, was later sentenced to 9 years in prison for related crimes.
2026-08-31
Due to a previous real-name report by a businessman surnamed Wang and related contract disputes, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court rejected Liu Xiaoqing's appeal in the second instance, upheld the original verdict, and ordered her to repay the company's debts within the scope of her unpaid capital contribution of 3.4 million yuan.
2026-08-27
The U.S. State Department listed Chen Youlin and Min Zin as wrongfully detained Americans; Chen Youlin was detained in China in November 2024, Min Zin was detained on June 3, 2026, and the latter was added to the list on August 27.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, it was reported online that rights defenders gathered in front of the Qujiang Court in Xi'an, Shaanxi to press their demands, and several of them were forcibly taken away in police cars by responding officers.
2026-08-24
On August 24, 2026, the Dandong Intermediate People's Court in Liaoning Province held a public first-instance sentencing in the bribery case of Ren Yuzhong, former standing committee member and vice president of Peking University, finding him guilty of taking more than 31.95 million yuan in bribes and sentencing him to eight years in prison plus a fine of 2.6 million yuan.
Location: Dandong, Liaoning ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Official claim ·
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2026-08-20
The U.S. Department of State has officially determined that Min Zin, a Burmese-American citizen and founder of the Institute for Strategy and Policy-Myanmar, is being illegally detained in Yunnan, China, and has called on the Chinese side to release him immediately.
2026-08-20
On August 20, 2026, Zhu Guoxin, an executive at Shenzhen Growatt, pleaded guilty in the Brisbane Magistrates Court to bribing an Australian official with 20,000 AUD. He argued that gift-giving is a common practice in China. He was sentenced to a 12-month suspended prison term and deportation proceedings were initiated.
2026-08-19
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts announced that 33-year-old Chinese citizen Sun Yupeng was arrested for allegedly registering to vote and voting under a false identity during the 2024 presidential election.
2026-08-18
Chinese citizen Lu Jianfei was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina for participating in a transnational drug trafficking and money laundering organization.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, Li Wenzhang, Director of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration, wrote an article in Study Times, on the one hand calling for correcting local interception and blocking, and on the other hand emphasizing a severe crackdown on troublemaking and disruption of order, as well as persistent petitioning and making a scene, resolutely achieving the goal of not letting conflicts be passed upward.
2026-08-12
On August 12, 2026, the international organization Chinese Human Rights Defenders issued a statement pointing out that it had been a full year since Hubei rights defender Yin Xu'an, who is seriously ill, was intercepted while being taken to Beijing for medical treatment and forcibly disappeared, and urged the Chinese authorities to immediately disclose his whereabouts and health condition and release him unconditionally.
2026-08-10
On August 10, the Supreme Court of Russia ruled to ban the opposition Yabloko party from participating in the September parliamentary elections. Representatives of the party stated they will continue to fight within the legal framework.
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.
2026-08-07
In a first-instance ruling, the Qindu District Court found that Zhang Heng's act of resisting a forced demolition that resulted in a death constituted self-defense, acquitted him, and rejected the civil compensation claims filed by the deceased's family.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, a lawyer disclosed that the Qindu District Court in Xianyang, Shaanxi, had issued a first-instance judgment in the case of Zhang Heng, finding that when his residence was illegally and forcibly demolished by a group of armed people in April 2023, his counterattack that resulted in one death constituted legitimate self-defense, and declaring him not guilty.
2026-08-04
On August 4, 2026, the official platform of the National Administration of State Secrets Protection altered the details of an old classified case already closed in 2019 and reissued it as a typical espionage case, prompting public doubts about the authorities deliberately manufacturing anxiety about enemy activity.
2026-08-04
On August 4, 2026, rights defense petitioners in Jiangsu Province found that when logging into the official online complaint platform of the Jiangsu Provincial Letters and Calls Bureau, the system repeatedly prompted that the phone number did not exist or the verification code was invalid, accused of setting up technical barriers to obstruct petition appeals.
2026-08
Evergrande Group founder Xu Jiayin was recently sentenced to life imprisonment, sparking widespread public attention. Commentators view this as marking the beginning of an era where private Chinese billionaires generally face severe legal reckoning and life imprisonment.
2026-08-01
On August 1, 2026, Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng disclosed that when his family of three planned to travel to Hong Kong at a Shenzhen checkpoint, they were stopped and placed under exit controls by border inspection on the grounds that leaving the country might endanger national security, and they received no written notice.
2026-08
In August 2026, prominent criminal defense lawyer Chen Youxi publicly pointed out that in multiple cases involving fallen officials, the case-handling authorities appointed legal aid lawyers to crowd out the lawyers retained by family members, effectively depriving the parties of their right to defense.
2026-08
In August 2026, official media reported that police in multiple regions had dismantled so-called “factory-exploding” extortion gangs that used fake job applications to gain employment and then extorted labor intermediary agencies under the pretext of labor disputes.
2026-08
In August 2026, a woman in Hangzhou alleged that she was molested and pushed down by a man in her apartment building's elevator. Police did not classify the incident as molestation and instead detained her and her companion for a night. After she subsequently spoke out online to defend her rights, her Douyin account was banned.
2026-07-30
On July 30, 2026, the Shangzhou District Court of Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province, together with institutions including the Law School of Northwest University, established the first Shang Yang rule-of-law thought and culture research center in the country's court system, sparking public debate over rule-of-law ideals and Qin-system thinking.
2026-07-29
On July 29, 2026, 28 depositors of Henan village banks went to the Zhejiang Provincial Letters and Calls Bureau to collectively defend their rights, asking Zhejiang officials to help coordinate with Henan departments to resolve the issue of deposits being frozen for five years, and requesting the provincial-level written certification documents needed for petitioning in Beijing.
2026-07-25
China's State Administration for Market Regulation has found that Ctrip abused its dominant position in the hotel booking market, confiscating its illegal gains and imposing a fine totaling approximately 5.179 billion yuan.
2026-07-23
In late July 2026, Zhu Yidan, a victim of the Zhejin Center collapse, was designated a ringleader by Hangzhou police and detained for an extended period for reposting rights-defense information online; her family publicly issued an accusation letter questioning whether judicial organs were engaging in retaliation.
2026-07-16
On July 16, 2026, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that it had detained a Czech businessman at the end of June on suspicion of endangering national security. Outside observers analyze the move as a tit-for-tat retaliation for the Czech Republic's earlier arrest of a Guangming Daily reporter suspected of espionage.
2026-07-15
Lawyer Hou Zhiyuan, while attending the trial of lawyer Wang Qing for alleged fraud, intervened in a dispute between a family member and the police, and was taken by the police to the detention room's steel cage for 20 minutes, during which he experienced discomfort.
2026-07-15
The U.S. State Department said the United States has raised the case of Chen Youlin directly with Chinese officials and called on China to immediately release the seismology scholar, who has been detained for more than 600 days and faces charges of espionage.
2026-07-15
On July 15, 2026, Rogers, a former senior adviser to the Federal Reserve, was sentenced to 38 months in prison for making false statements to investigators.
2026-07-14
Reuters disclosed that Youlin Chen, a Chinese-American seismologist studying North Korea's nuclear tests, has been secretly detained by China for nearly two years and charged with espionage.
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.
2026-07-07
On July 7, 2026, on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the 709 case, disbarred mainland human rights lawyer Liu Shuqing published a two-volume collection in New York, containing historical records of his handling of major public cases such as the New Citizens' Movement and the 709 case, as well as acts of civil disobedience.
Location: New York, United States ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Reported ·
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2026-07-02
A college student in Xi'an came to the front of Saige Mall, calling to "give the victim justice and give society fairness."
2026-07
Chinese-American seismologist Chen Youlin has been detained by China for more than 600 days over his research on North Korean nuclear tests, has yet to face a formal trial, and faces espionage charges.
2026-07-01
Zhang Naixian, an independent film director in Beijing, was taken away from his home by multiple police (Public Security) officers on the evening of July 1 for posting satirical comments about the authorities on the X platform. His family later received a criminal detention notice for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble issued by the Haidian Branch.
2026-07
China's market regulator imposed an administrative penalty on Ctrip for monopolistic conduct, ordering it to refund order deposit funds, confiscating its illegal gains and imposing a hefty fine, with total fines and confiscations exceeding 5 billion yuan.
2026-07
CCTV reported on a live-streaming scam conducted under the guise of rescuing stray cats and dogs. The criminal gang defrauded over 1,500 kind-hearted individuals of more than 2.5 million yuan through false information and intentional animal abuse. The mastermind, surnamed Li, was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison for fraud and fined 200,000 yuan.
2026-07-01
The new petition regulations that the CCP will implement from July 1 stipulate that when members of the public go to the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration and relevant central ministries and commissions to report problems, they must hold relevant written materials issued by provincial-level authorities.
2026-07
After the case was accepted, it remained unhandled for a long time; Lin attempted suicide by slashing his or her wrist shortly afterward, and his or her lawyer says Lin was subsequently diagnosed with severe depression by a hospital.
Location: Junlian County, Sichuan ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Reported ·
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2026-06-27
On June 27, 2026, China's Ministry of State Security once again issued a warning article claiming that graduates taking group photos, enabling location tagging on WeChat Moments, or revealing where they are headed at classified-affiliated work units could all become channels for foreign spy agencies to collect sensitive information and "hunt" them.
2026-06-26
In late June 2026, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress released the draft amendment to the Lawyers Law, with new clauses explicitly requiring practicing lawyers to support the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the socialist rule of law, and mandating that law firms establish grassroots Party organizations in accordance with the Party Constitution.
2026-06-25
The National Petition Bureau has introduced new regulations, requiring the public to cross their own level or the next higher level of agencies to petition in Beijing; they must have written or electronic documents from a provincial-level agency, otherwise registration will not be accepted.
2026-06-25
A man in Xuchang, Henan went to a police station to obtain a certificate of no criminal record, but the system showed that he had been sentenced to re-education through labor by a court in 2010, while he had in fact been working in Suzhou, Jiangsu at the time and had never been subjected to re-education through labor.
2026-06-24
At a regular press conference, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that two Japanese nationals have been detained by Chinese authorities in accordance with the law on suspicion of violating Chinese laws.
2026-06-23
Zhu Zisong, former member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and former party chief of the Pudong New Area, was tried in another jurisdiction in Nanchang. He was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in the first instance, convicted of accepting bribes totaling 139 million yuan, with his criminal origins traced back to his tenure at the Eighth Academy of Aerospace in 2003.
2026-06-21
The local government in Nenjiang, Heilongjiang conducted random inspections on merchants. Facing pressure for rectification and the risk of hefty fines, merchants closed their shops and went on strike en masse. The market supervision bureau subsequently issued a statement claiming the remarks were untrue.
2026-06-18
On June 18, 2026, Hangzhou citizen Ms. Zhang filed a real-name report online, alleging that police officers from the Wenhui and Zhaohui police stations in Gongshu District abused their power to intervene in an ordinary contract dispute, and that after she filed a lawful appeal, she was placed in administrative detention for 8 days on the grounds of defamation.
2026-06-16
On June 16, in front of the Supreme People's Court petition reception office and Yongdingmen West Street in Beijing, a large number of petitioners queued in heavy rain, with some denouncing the root causes behind the frequent occurrence of social revenge incidents.
2026-06-16
On June 16, 2026, the second-instance verdict was handed down in the case of the murder of Wang Ziya at the AVIC City residential compound in Chengdu, Sichuan. The court sentenced the defendant, who is suspected of carrying out a knife attack, to death with a two-year reprieve in accordance with the law.
2026-06-10
In a joint operation, the Hong Kong police and the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) charged 7 individuals, including representatives from two contractors, Hung Ngai and Wang Yip, with a total of 25 counts in connection with the Wang Fuk Court fire case in Tai Po. The suspects were charged in court with manslaughter, conspiracy to defraud, money laundering, and other offenses, and were remanded in custody.
2026-06-10
Liu Ren, formerly president of the Cambodia Anhui Chamber of Commerce, has been formally handed over to Chinese police by Cambodian law enforcement and escorted back to China to stand trial on suspicion of multiple serious transnational crimes, including cross-border money laundering, telecom and online fraud, and illegal human trafficking.
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.
2026-06-09
Kim Myeong-il said that lawyer Li Guisheng met with him again on June 9 and promised that no matter the cost, he would not give up defending him.
2026-06-03
Min Zin, a US-Myanmar political scholar, suddenly disappeared at Kunming Changshui International Airport in Yunnan. It was later confirmed by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs that he has been criminally detained on suspicion of endangering state security.
2026-06-03
On June 3, 2026, the case of Wang Lixia, former chairwoman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region government, on suspicion of accepting bribes, was brought to court by the procuratorate of Daqing, Heilongjiang Province.
2026-06-03
Kim Myeong-il said that after the prosecutor's office began questioning him, he wrote a letter and announced a hunger strike lasting two days because lawyer Lee Gwi-saeng was unable to meet with him.
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.
2026-05-10
From May 10 to 15, 2026, the Shandong Provincial Drug Administration inspected Line 103 of the lyophilized powder injection workshop at Shandong Huatai Pharmaceutical, concluded that there was 1 serious defect and that the results were non-compliant, and decided to suspend production of amiodarone hydrochloride injection.
2026-05-04
On May 4, 2026, the High Court of Hong Kong granted a restraining order applied for by the Department of Justice, freezing HK$8.93 billion in assets belonging to 42 people including Chen Zhi and their associated companies.
2026-05-02
Yuan Keqin, a Chinese national and former professor at Hokkaido University of Education who was detained on suspicion of espionage while returning to China and sentenced to six years in prison by the Changchun Intermediate People's Court, has now been released and is living in Changchun, Jilin Province.
2026-05
A federal court jury in Brooklyn, New York, returned a guilty verdict against Chinese American Lu Jianwang on charges of acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government; prosecutors alleged he operated a secret police station in Manhattan.
Location: New York, United States ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Verified ·
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2026-05
Videos that surfaced in late May 2026 show that several-meter-high isolation iron fences have been installed along the south moat outside the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration; The Epoch Times says the move is intended to prevent desperate petitioners from jumping into the river, and officials have not explained it.
2026-04-15
In mid-April 2026, the former chairman of China's Aviation Industry Corporation was sentenced to death for corruption and malfeasance. The group is the main producer of most of China's combat aircraft.
2026-04-14
On April 14, 2026, the Munich District Court sentenced a 28-year-old Chinese international student to 11 years and 3 months in prison, finding him guilty of attempted murder, aggravated rape and other offenses, and additionally ordered preventive detention.
2026-03-30
On March 30, 2026, a court in Xiangcheng, Henan, found in first instance that Cao's family members had discussed having the elderly person drink pesticide and die on the neighbor's homestead, using the death to force the neighbor to stop work and secure the release of her son Li, who had been criminally detained; six relatives, including her husband and daughter, were convicted of intentional homicide, with the husband sentenced to 6 years.
2026-02-06
Between 2020 and 2024, a transnational criminal gang composed primarily of highly educated Chinese men residing in Germany and the Netherlands, established a secret group called 'German Old Driver's School' on the encrypted social platform Telegram own. They used female identities on social software such as WeChat and Xiaohongshu to post fake rental or help-seeking information to lure newly arrived Chinese female students and young women to private residences, secretly administering date rape drugs (such as GHB/GBL, sedatives, etc.) to commit sexual assault, and used slang like 'car', 'refueling', and 'dead pig' within the group to brag and communicate, recording and disseminating sexual violence imagery. In February 2026, the Frankfurt District Court issued a first-instance judgment against the main perpetrator Zhang Dapeng (who was an IT supervisor of a car company before the case), finding him guilty of 22 charges including attempted murder and especially severe rape, sentencing him to 14 years of imprisonment and additional preventive detention (security supervision). Other accomplices Jiang Zhongyi was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in Munich, Zhou Tong was sentenced to 5 years and 9 months in Berlin, and Shao Zhiting, who provided drug formula guidance, was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in July. This case, due to its heinous criminal methods and targeting of specific groups, caused a shock to the overseas Chinese community and directly pushed the German Federal Cabinet to pass a bill increasing the penalties for date rape crimes.
2026-02-03
On February 3, 2026, the jury found Rogers not guilty of conspiracy to commit economic espionage, but determined that he made false statements to investigators. During the trial, Rogers claimed that Hummin Lee was a spy and that he had been deceived.
2026-02-02
On February 2, 2026, the Munich Regional Court opened the trial of a Chinese international student accused of repeatedly drugging, sexually assaulting and filming his girlfriend; the prosecution charged him with seven counts including attempted murder, grievous bodily harm and aggravated rape.
2026-02
In February 2026, Mr. Liu discovered that his account had been judicially frozen. Previously, the Dengzhou City Court had ruled that he must return 19,800 yuan mistakenly transferred by a netizen from Henan and pay interest.
2026-01-06
Host Liu Wen once spoke up for food delivery couriers and questioned Meituan's high commission rates. On January 6, she posted a video stating that her consumer fraud rights defense failed to receive compensation; instead, she was ruled as defaming, with the court issuing a prejudgment and sentencing her to apologize for one month and pay 500,000 RMB without her knowledge.
2026
China's Ministry of Justice announced the results of a crackdown on local law enforcement violations, saying it identified and corrected more than 66,000 problems and recovered economic losses of 30.7 billion yuan for businesses.
2025-12-29
The Huizhou Intermediate People's Court handed down a first-instance verdict to Zhao Bing and more than ten defendants; principal offender Zhao Bing was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for intentional injury, and the remaining defendants received various sentences.
Location: Huizhou, Guangdong ·
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2025-12
In December 2025, Mr. Gu from Henan sued Mr. Liu from Shanxi in the Dengzhou People's Court for unjust enrichment. The court determined that Mr. Liu had received a mis-transfer of 19,800 yuan and failed to return it, and did not appear in court after being summoned; it ruled that he must return the funds and pay interest.
2025-11-04
On November 4, according to CCTV, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court in Guangdong Province announced the first-instance verdict in the Bai family criminal gang case: Bai Suocheng, Bai Yingcang, Yang Liqiang, Hu Xiaojiang, and Chen Guangyi were sentenced to death; Li Fushou and Li Zhide received death sentences with a reprieve; Guo Jianzheng, Pan Xian, and three others received life imprisonment; Li Longhua, Luo Wending, and six others received fixed-term sentences ranging from three to twenty years.
2025-11
In November 2025, the news that "under the 2026 new rules, drug records can be sealed" sparked protests from a large number of netizens. Zhao Hong, a professor at Peking University Law School, as the core promoter and main defender of this system, received extensive attention and subsequently faced online harassment.
2025-04-10
On April 10, 2025, Song Mouqi, a staff member of the special task force of the Supervisory Commission of Gangcha County, Qinghai, impersonated someone and sent private messages insulting Long Mou, a woman who was seeking justice for her brother, calling her a "comfort woman" and threatening her personal safety; after verifying the facts, the police imposed no administrative penalty, and the supervisory commission only gave internal criticism and education.
Location: Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai ·
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Verification: Reported ·
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2025-03
The Lanzhou procuratorate recently brought a public prosecution against Jing Shuren, accusing him of using his influence to repost Zhou Lubao's so-called false negative posts, with a sentencing recommendation of 7 years and 6 months.
2025-01
The Qindu District Court in Xianyang City issued a first-instance verdict against ten forced-demolition personnel on the charge of intentional destruction of property, handing down suspended sentences and a two-year prison term.
2025
The Ministry of Justice reported that a county fire brigade in Henan assigned administrative fine quotas to 23 townships and subdistricts, requiring no fewer than 2 fines per month totaling at least 2,000 yuan.
2025
The Chinese man who stabbed a 10-year-old Japanese boy outside the Japanese School of Shenzhen on September 18, 2024, causing the boy's death the following day, was executed in 2025. To this day, it remains unclear whether the case specifically targeted Japanese people.
2024-12-22
On December 22, 2024, the Nanchang police in Jiangxi and the subdistrict office issued a statement saying that, in response to an online dispute, they had lawfully sent Li Yixue, a party who had repeatedly pursued rights defense, to a hospital for psychiatric treatment, once again sparking controversy over being "diagnosed as mentally ill" against one's will.
2024-12-13
The Intermediate People's Court of Xianning City, Hubei Province, announced the first-instance verdict in the case of Li Tie. Li Tie was convicted of crimes including accepting bribes and sentenced to 20 years in prison. His status as a non-state personnel has sparked external discussions about the football association system.
2024-12-06
The Public Security Bureau of Xin Barag Left Banner dismissed the case against Xing Yanjun about 8 months after his death, citing a lack of criminal facts, and unsealed his property.
2024-12
In December 2024, Xinhua News Agency revoked the retirement benefits of Gu Wanming, former head of its Guangdong branch. Prior to this, he had been criminally detained for issuing an open letter over the death of Li Keqiang, and was sentenced by a court to one year in prison on the charge of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
2024-11-13
Rights campaigner Xu Zhiyong has been on a hunger strike for 40 days in protest against Lunan Prison depriving him of his right to communicate with his fiancée Li Qiaochu. Currently, Xu Zhiyong cannot meet with his lawyers, making it difficult for the outside world to know his specific physical condition.
2024-11-05
On November 5, 2024, US-based seismologist Chen Youlin was arrested by state security at the Beijing airport as he prepared to return to the United States after visiting family and lecturing. His wife stated that he has already faced over 100 interrogations and is facing trial on fabricated espionage charges.
2024-11
In November 2024, the Minhang District Court in Shanghai sentenced Gu Wanming, former head of the Xinhua News Agency's Guangdong branch, to one year in prison on the charge of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. He was criminally detained after issuing an open letter in October 2023 raising five demands over the death of Li Keqiang.
2024-10-08
On October 8, 2024, the Zibo Intermediate People's Court, in a retrial, found that the compensation received by a person surnamed Lu had been determined through negotiation between both parties, with no intent of illegal possession, and overturned the original verdict, declaring him not guilty.
2024-10-08
On October 8, 2024, the Fifth Criminal Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice ruled that covertly slipping someone date-rape drugs (K.o. drops) to carry out a sexual assault does not constitute the use of a “dangerous instrument,” and therefore the aggravated provision carrying a minimum sentence of five years does not apply.
2024-10
A 93-year-old man in Shaoyang, Hunan was sentenced to 15 years in October 2024, but the detention center refused to take him into custody on the grounds that he cannot care for himself.
2024-09
A court in China auctioned off assets of a bankrupt company, opening bidding for a bottle of Sprite originally priced at 6 yuan at 4.2 yuan, because the company had no more property available for enforcement.
2024-08-21
On August 21, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of former 1989 student movement participant Tang Yuanjun in New York, charging him with acting as an unregistered agent for the Chinese Ministry of State Security, spying on overseas pro-democracy activists, and making false statements.
2024-04-03
After not being arrested due to insufficient evidence and being transferred to designated residence for residential surveillance, Xing Yanjun died in the relevant surveillance room.
2024-02-18
Prince Andrew has been officially arrested by British police on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
2024
Hokkaido University professor Yuan Keqin was sentenced to six years in prison for violating the anti-espionage law.
2024
Jing Shuren, a migrant worker and self-media creator in Gansu, was criminally detained by Lanzhou police in 2024 for repeatedly reposting posts by his friend Zhou Lubao that exposed companies' unpaid wages.
2023-07-31
The Ministry of State Security officially launched a WeChat official account, frequently publishing counter-espionage warnings and propaganda content, and beginning to actively build a public presence.
2023-04-26
The revised Anti-Espionage Law was passed, significantly expanding the definition of espionage activities, adding a dedicated chapter on security prevention, and incorporating the mass line and the primary responsibility of work units into the law.
2022-01
Former CCP Central Committee Inspection Team Deputy Leader Dong Hong sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.
2021-07-15
The Court of Appeal in Bordeaux, France, rejected China's extradition request for Huang Youlong, accepting the defense arguments regarding the political nature of the case and the risks he faces.
2021
In 2021, a man surnamed Lu in Zibo, Shandong, collected 25,000 yuan in compensation from his wife's lover after catching them in bed, and was sentenced to six months for extortion.
2019-12
Rights lawyers and civic activists such as Xu Zhiyong, Ding Jiaxi, and Wu Shaoping gathered in Xiamen, Fujian to discuss current affairs and the development of civil society in China, prompting a nationwide crackdown by the Chinese authorities.
2019
Hokkaido University professor Yuan Keqin was arrested by state security during a trip back to China for a funeral.
2019
When Huawei employee Li Hongyuan left the company in 2018, he negotiated a severance package of 330,000 yuan. Shortly after the money arrived, he was criminally detained by Shenzhen police, with the charges changing from embezzlement and leaking trade secrets to extortion. Because Li had kept recordings of the negotiations and public pressure mounted, he was released without charge after 251 days in detention and received state compensation of 107,522 yuan paid by the government.
2018-12-10
Days after Meng Wanzhou's arrest, Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were taken away in Beijing and Dandong, respectively, by state security (MSS) on charges of endangering national security.
2018-12
According to a report by Caixin, in the very month that Li Hongyuan was detained, 5 employees were arrested for demanding severance pay from Huawei, one of whom was arrested by Thai police while traveling in Thailand and later handed over.
2018-10-23
A Tianjin court delivered the first-instance verdict for the nine prosecutors involved in the Yanbian case. Xu Xuezhe, the head of the special investigation team, and others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment for intentional injury or extracting confessions by torture.
2018-10-03
On October 3, 2018, Xinhua News Agency reported that national tax authorities had confirmed that Fan Bingbing evaded taxes, recovering a total of 883 million yuan in taxes and fines, with criminal liability waived once the payment was made.
2018-09-07
Nine Yanbian prosecutors suspected of torturing Liu Xiyong to death were put on public trial at the Tianjin No. 1 Intermediate People's Court. Liu Fangfei attended the hearing holding a portrait of her late husband.
2018-07-02
The Haikou Intermediate Court issued an enforcement ruling, transferring the ownership of the real estate and vehicles under Shanhaiguan Company to the buyer, Guanyang Sitong Company, in accordance with the Civil Procedure Law, and handled the transfer of registration.
2018-04-12
The first-instance trial of Sun Zhengcai's bribery case opened at the Tianjin No. 1 Intermediate People's Court on April 12, 2018; online posts claim that evidence footage played in court showed Zhang Jun as one of those who offered bribes, a claim not seen in any public reports.
2018
The Brazilian government and McDonald's have been engaged in a long-running legal battle since 2018 over whether a cone counts as ice cream or a dairy beverage and which turnover tax rate applies.
2017-11-21
In 2017, Lu Wei, head of the Cyberspace Administration of China known as the "internet czar," fell from power over corruption, and in 2019 he was sentenced to 14 years, a longer term than many of the big-name internet influencers he had arrested while in office.
2017-03-19
Liu Xiyong was taken to Yanbian, Jilin for interrogation in a different jurisdiction. During his time in Yanbian, he was subjected to torture by the special investigation team, resulting in seven fractures to his sternum and ribs, and died of asphyxiation.
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2016-11-15
On the morning of November 15, 2016, the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court carried out the death penalty on Jia Jinglong in accordance with the execution order issued by the Supreme People's Court; he had shot and killed village Party secretary He Jianhua after his own marital home was forcibly demolished.
2016-10-25
In 2016, several legal scholars and lawyers wrote to Zhou Qiang, President of the Supreme People's Court, arguing that approving Jia Jinglong's death sentence did not meet the standards and policies for the cautious use of the death penalty, and requesting that it not be carried out; the list of co-signers and the date of October 25 could not be verified.
2016-05-17
On May 17, 2016, the Hebei High People's Court rejected Jia Jinglong's appeal in a second-instance ruling, upheld the first-instance death sentence handed down by the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court, and submitted it to the Supreme People's Court for review.
2016
Ling Jihua, former director of the CCP Central Committee General Office, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the court, while his younger brother Ling Wancheng had previously fled to the United States with confidential materials.
2016
In 2016, Ling Jihua, former director of the CCP General Office, was sentenced to life imprisonment and is still serving his sentence.
2015-11-24
On November 24, 2015, the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court sentenced Jia Jinglong to death for intentional homicide in a first-instance ruling and deprived him of political rights for life; Jia Jinglong subsequently appealed.
2015-11-05
The Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) issued a notice charging Liu Xiyong, owner of the Kimberley Hotel in Hong Kong and husband of Liu Fangfei, with fraud in connection with bank loans.
2015-07-09
From July 9, 2015, Chinese police (Public Security) carried out large-scale arrests, summons and detentions of over a hundred rights lawyers, rights defenders and their relatives across 23 provinces, an event known as the 709 crackdown.
2014
Following the introduction of China's Anti-Espionage Law, the methods for taking hostages have become more diversified.
2013-05
After Jia Jinglong's marital home was forcibly demolished in May 2013, he repeatedly wrote letters of complaint to the Chang'an District Procuratorate and the district letters and visits bureau, and repeatedly sought talks with village head He Jianhua over compensation, all to no avail.
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.
2011-11-08
On November 8, 2011, Gao Xiaosong, who had been sentenced to six months of criminal detention for drunk driving, was released; less than five months later, his online video program Xiaoshuo went online.
2011-07-23
After hiding in Canada for twelve years, Lai Changxing was deported back to China in 2011 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
2011-05-10
In May 2011, the Xia Junfeng case entered the Supreme People's Court's death penalty review; afterward, academics and netizens launched a "stay the execution" solidarity campaign, though the exact launch date and the scale of hundreds of thousands of participants could not be verified.
2011-05-09
On May 9, 2011, the Liaoning Provincial High People's Court concluded the second-instance trial, upholding the first-instance judgment of the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court and sentencing Xia Junfeng to death; his defense lawyer argued that Xia Junfeng had acted in self-defense, which was not accepted.
2011-01
Li Qiming, the defendant in the Hebei University campus vehicle-ramming case, was sentenced to six years in prison for the crime of causing a traffic accident.
2010-11-26
November 26, 2010 marked the second anniversary of Yang Jia’s execution. His mother, Wang Jingmei, traveled to Beijing’s Futian Cemetery to pay her respects, and the authorities deployed police to monitor her. Radio Free Asia reported that Yang Jia is regarded by many as a victim of China’s judicial system.
2009-11-15
On November 11, 2009, the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xia Junfeng to death for intentional homicide in a first-instance ruling; his defense lawyer said the court refused to accept testimony from six eyewitnesses and instead relied on the testimony of chengguan officers.
2009-06-16
On June 16, 2009, the court of Badong County, Hubei, found Deng Yujiao guilty of intentional injury in the first-instance ruling, but, taking into account such circumstances as excessive self-defense and voluntary surrender, exempted her from criminal penalty.
2009-05-16
On May 16, 2009, Xia Junfeng and his wife were penalized by chengguan for setting up an unlicensed street stall in Shenyang. A conflict broke out at the Binhe duty room, in which Xia stabbed two chengguan officers to death. The defense argued that he had been beaten by a group first and acted in self-defense, but the court did not accept the claim.
2009-05-10
Deng Yujiao, a hotel waitress in Badong County, Hubei, fought back against officials who forced her to provide "special services," resulting in one death. Amid intense nationwide public attention and online support, she was ultimately found by the court to have exceeded the bounds of self-defense and was exempted from criminal punishment.
2009
Zhou Jiugong, head of the Jiangning District Housing Bureau in Nanjing, was brought down and in 2009 was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
2009-01
After Yang Jia was executed, his mother Wang Jingmei opened a blog on Sina. Her first post wrote of the grief of losing her son. The blog was soon forced to close. Ai Weiwei cited this case in a blog roundtable discussion in January 2009 to illustrate the power of individual voices, and how afraid the authorities are.
2008-11-26
On the morning of November 26, 2008, Yang Jia was executed by lethal injection in Shanghai at the age of 28. This was only five days after the Supreme People's Court issued its approval ruling, and less than a day after his mother received the ruling.
2008-11-21
On November 21, 2008, the Supreme People's Court issued a criminal ruling approving the death sentence of Yang Jia. It was only after 7 p.m. on November 25 that Wang Jingmei received this ruling, with only one night left before the execution.
2008-10-20
On October 20, 2008, the Shanghai High People's Court issued Criminal Ruling (2008) Hu Gao Xing Zhong Zi No. 131, rejecting Yang Jia's appeal, upholding the first-instance death sentence, and reporting it to the Supreme People's Court for review and approval. When the ruling was issued, Yang Jia's mother, Wang Jingmei, was still confined in a psychiatric hospital.
2008-10-13
On the day of Yang Jia's second-instance trial, a large crowd gathered outside the Shanghai High People's Court, with some shouting "Long live Yang Jia." About a dozen protesters wearing T-shirts printed with Yang Jia's portrait and the words "If you don't give me an explanation, I'll give you one" were taken away on the spot in front of the police. This was a rare street action in China in support of a defendant.
2008-10-13
At 9:30 a.m. on October 13, 2008, the Shanghai High People's Court opened the second-instance trial of the Yang Jia case in a closed hearing. The defense lawyer requested a new psychiatric evaluation, but the court rejected it on the spot, ruling that the grounds were insufficient. During the hearing, the prosecution and the defense debated the appearance of witnesses, the qualifications of the appraisal institution, and whether Yang Jia had been beaten at the police station.
2008-09-01
On the morning of September 1, 2008, the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court announced its verdict, sentencing Yang Jie to death for intentional homicide and deprivation of political rights for life. Yang Jie and his defense lawyer did not speak throughout the announcement, nor did they indicate whether they would appeal. Online questions about the closed trial, the qualifications of the appraiser, and the identity of the defense lawyer immediately spread.
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2008-08-26
On the afternoon of August 26, 2008, the Yang Jia case was heard in first instance at the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court; the hearing was postponed to this day because of the Beijing Olympics. The court gave all the gallery seats to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, more than 20 domestic and foreign media outlets and citizens who came to observe were turned away, and the hearing notice was only displayed on the electronic screen in front of the court. No verdict was announced that day.
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2008-07-19
On July 19, 2008, the Shanghai Bar Association publicly stated that Yang Jia had officially hired Xie Youming and Xie Jin as his defense attorneys for the first instance trial. Xie Youming is also a legal advisor to the Zhabei District government, and the crime scene was the Zhabei District Public Security Bureau. The legal community and netizens questioned whether this violated legal regulations and constituted a conflict of interest.
2008-07-05
On the afternoon of July 5, 2008, the Shanghai Justice Bureau received a commission from the police, and experts from the Institute of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Justice arrived at the detention center that same day to complete the psychiatric evaluation of Yang Jia, concluding that he had no mental illness and possessed full criminal responsibility. An evaluation that normally takes 30 days was completed in a single day. Lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan pointed out that the evaluation procedure was seriously unlawful, and the body that conducted the evaluation was also accused of lacking forensic evaluation qualifications. During the second trial, the lawyer again applied for a re-evaluation, which was rejected by the court.
2008-07-03
After the Yang Jia case occurred, artist Ai Weiwei published a series of posts on his blog, pressing questions about the details of Yang Jia's case, the circumstances of his mother being committed to a psychiatric hospital, and the violations of procedure during the trial; his blog at one point became a gathering point for online public opinion. After that, he spoke out for Yang Jia multiple times.
2008-07-02
The night after the Yang Jia case occurred, his mother Wang Jingmei was first taken to the Datun Police Station in Chaoyang District, and was then sent by Shanghai and Beijing police to the Ankang Psychiatric Hospital of the Beijing Public Security Bureau in Shunyi District and forcibly detained. Her family only learned of her whereabouts four months later, and legal professionals pointed out that there was no regulatory basis whatsoever for sending her to a psychiatric hospital.
2007
In a 2007 case in Nanjing in which a person helped an elderly person who had fallen to the ground, the judge ordered the helper to pay compensation on the grounds that "if you didn't bump into him, why did you go and help him," and the ruling sparked nationwide discussion about extortion targeting those who act courageously to help others.
2006-10
In October 2006, the Pengyu case occurred in Nanjing. The court of first instance ordered the young man who had helped an elderly person who fell to compensate the plaintiff. The reasoning in the judgment and the subsequent handling sparked a long-running nationwide controversy over trust and mutual assistance among strangers.
2006
Sun Daolin admitted to acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, was sentenced to 4 years in prison, and is currently serving his sentence in a federal prison.
2004-06-01
On June 1, 2004, Jiang Yanyong and his wife Hua Zhongwei were taken away by the authorities while on their way to the hospital; Hua Zhongwei was released two weeks later, Jiang Yanyong was released on July 19, and the authorities denied the incident.
2004-05-10
After the Chaoyang District Court issued a first-instance verdict on Liu Xiaoqing's company and related personnel, the procuratorate officially issued a non-prosecution notice to Liu Xiaoqing herself, deciding not to initiate a public prosecution against her.
2004-03-19
On March 19, 2004, Guangdong courts sentenced Southern Metropolis Daily general manager Yu Huafeng to 12 years and Li Minying to 11 years in first instance for embezzlement, bribery and other crimes; editor-in-chief Cheng Yizhong was arrested the same day and released without charge about 4 months later, and the sentences of Yu and Li were later substantially reduced.
2003-08-15
After multiple rounds of supplementary investigations and legal defense, Liu Xiaoqing was granted bail on August 15, 2003, and walked out of the detention center the next day along with her sister Liu Xiaohong.
2003
Li Jiating was investigated in 2001, and two years later was finally sentenced to death with a reprieve for accepting bribes of more than 18.1 million yuan; his son Li Bo and his mistress Xu Fuying were also successively sentenced.
2002-08-22
As a shareholder of Skyhigh, CCT Telecom applied for an injunction in the Hong Kong court to prohibit Andy Lau from participating in film production and performances. The two parties eventually reached a settlement on the day of the hearing in November.
2002-03
In 2002, workers at the Liaoyang Ferroalloy Plant launched weeks of protests over long-term unpaid wages and losing everything after being laid off; worker representatives were subsequently arrested and sentenced on charges of illegal assembly, inciting subversion of state power, and others, on Zhu Rongji's signal.
2001-12-06
The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court ruled at first instance that China International Television Corporation had committed infringement, and ordered it to stop distribution, issue a public apology, and pay Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao more than 330,000 yuan in compensation.
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.
1999-01-20
Shanghai software engineer Lin Hai was sentenced to two years in prison for providing 30,000 collected Chinese email addresses to the overseas anti-communist digital journal "VIP Reference," becoming the first person in China to be imprisoned for internet-related activities.
1998-12
In 1998, Xu Wenli, Wang Youcai, and Qin Yongmin, founders of the China Democracy Party, were sentenced for their party-building activities, marking the establishment of political parties as a taboo in China.
1996
Zhou Beifang, suspected of illegally mobilizing massive funds from Shougang to help Deng Zhifang pay off gambling debts, was sentenced by the court to death with a reprieve, while Deng Zhifang escaped legal prosecution and safely retreated behind the scenes.
1989-12
Xiang Huayan's appeal succeeded, the court revoked his conviction, allowing him to leave prison.
1989-06-20
In June 1989, the Shanghai High People's Court rejected the appeals of Xu Guoming, Bian Hanwu, and Yan Xuerong, upholding the death sentences; the three were executed on June 21. The specific date of the second instance was reported to be around June 20.
1989-06-16
On June 16, 1989, after three people in Shanghai were sentenced to death, the West German ambassador to China expressed hope that the authorities would not carry out the executions, but the three were still executed on June 21.
1989-06-14
The Shanghai Intermediate Court heard the Guangxin Road level crossing case, which was broadcast live on television. The defendant, Yan Xuerong, is reportedly intellectually disabled from birth, and her unusual behavior in court sparked discussion; the trial date could not be verified, and she was sentenced to death at first instance on June 15.
1989-06
On June 15, 1989, Xu Guoming, Bian Hanwu, and Yan Xuerong were sentenced to death in the first instance by the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court for June Fourth, and were executed by firing squad on June 20, faster than in Beijing.
1985-04-15
Ma Yanqin was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad in 1985 on charges related to hooliganism. Years later, her case and the plight of her family have sparked public attention and reflection.
1985
Yu Qiangsheng defected to the United States via a CIA-arranged flight through Hong Kong, causing massive tremors within the Chinese Communist Party.
1983-07
The Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China is officially established, primarily undertaking foreign intelligence and counter-espionage work, forming a parallel system with public security organs that handle domestic security.