Police Repression · Full chronicle and history

On October 31, netizens reported that a Halloween coser was taken away by police near the Jufuchang Party-Mass Service Station on West Nanjing Road, Shanghai.

The video claims that after protesters were attacked and fought back, US police arrested some protesters at the scene.

In Ningcun, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, hundreds of police officers tried to stop villagers from holding a parade celebrating the 700th anniversary of Tang He's birth; the two sides faced off and a clash broke out.

On September 18, at a shopping mall square in Qiantang District, Hangzhou, multiple disabled individuals performing street art came into conflict with security guards and local police. Chaos and chasing broke out on the scene, with someone scattering white powder, drawing a large crowd of onlookers.

A large number of young people gathered below the Times Fengjun building and sang the national anthem loudly; plainclothes officers and police entered, seized flags and carried out mass arrests, triggering a standoff at the scene.

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.

In the early hours of June 12, 2026, most volunteers at the protest site over a man's abuse of a dog in Chongqing had been dispersed, while a large number of law enforcement officers remained lined up in formation for standby patrols.

An 18-year-old boy in Kaizhou District, Chongqing, jumped into the river after being chased by fishery administration personnel while fishing downstream of a regulating dam. Law enforcement officers failed to rescue him, triggering protests from onlookers and family members on the shore, which were suppressed by the police.

During Halloween 2024, Shanghai police strictly prohibited citizens from wearing Halloween costumes or cosplaying in areas such as Yuyuan Road. Many citizens who went out in costume were forcibly taken to the Public Security Bureau for questioning or arrested.

In 2011, the Jasmine Revolution broke out in China, and the Hu Jintao administration suppressed it with iron-fisted means.

On the day of the second trial, a man who had come to observe the proceedings was dragged, beaten and taken away by a group of police officers on the road in front of the Shanghai High People's Court, and has been missing ever since. His pregnant wife publicly asked Hu Jintao to return her husband. Petitioners estimate that between 9 a.m. and noon that day, five vans full of people were taken away, more than 100 in total.

In December 2005, a large-scale clash between police and civilians broke out in Dongzhou Village, Shanwei, Guangdong, leaving 14 dead and 50 injured; the first three pages of Yahoo China's search results contained no content related to the crackdown, while the international version of Yahoo returned 370,000 related results.

Beginning on March 6, 1989, large numbers of armed police forces in Lhasa fired without warning at Tibetans gathered at the Jokhang Temple. Tibetans on retreat routes were ambushed, and Tibetans who had not taken part in the gathering were also strafed, provoking open opposition from the regional Party committee, people's congress, CPPCC, and public security department.