Author: Free China Movement

This archive collects reporting on Peng Ming (彭明), a mainland Chinese democracy activist who died at Xianning Prison in Hubei on November 29, 2016. Source chronology 1998–2000: Reports document Peng’s founding of a pro-democracy federation, its prohibition, and…

This archive collects the source record concerning Wang Meiyu (王美余), a Hunan activist who died in custody on September 23, 2019. Source chronology 2018: Wang carried out solo protests in Hunan calling for political reform and elections. July…

This archive collects the source record concerning Dong Jianbiao (董建彪), including his efforts to advocate for his daughter Dong Yaoqiong and reporting on his death at Chaling Prison in September 2022. Source chronology August 2018: Hong Kong Free…

This archive collects reporting and documentary sources concerning Guo Hongwei (郭宏伟 / 郭洪伟), a Jilin whistleblower and democracy activist who died on April 9, 2021 after a brain hemorrhage while imprisoned. Source chronology 2016: Guo was sentenced in…

This archive collects the source record for the reported October 2023 death in Fuzhou police custody of Ye Zhong (叶钟), a Fujian human-rights activist, and the subsequent reporting about people who questioned the official account. Source chronology 2023:…

Ji Sizun (纪斯尊, 1949–2019) was a Fujian “barefoot lawyer” and grassroots rights advocate. This archive collects the source trail on his advocacy, detention, health deterioration, release from prison into a guarded hospital setting, and death on July 10,…

Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955–2017) was a writer, Beijing Normal University professor, and leading author of Charter 08, the 2008 manifesto calling for constitutional democracy and the rule of law in China. Detained in December 2008 and sentenced in…

Cao Shunli (曹顺利, 1961–2014) was a Beijing human-rights defender who pressed for independent civil-society participation in China’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights Council. She was detained at Beijing Capital International Airport on September…

This archive collects the source record for the September 22, 2026 death in custody of Shi Tingfu (史庭福), a Nanjing human-rights defender serving a three-year sentence in Shahe Prison, Xinjiang. Source chronology September 22, 2026, about 22:30: According…

Person profile: Feng Zhijie (冯志杰) # Media Archive: Feng Zhijie (冯志杰) This archive preserves the dated reports documenting the detention and imprisonment of Falun Gong practitioner Feng Zhijie (冯志杰) of Nehe City, Heilongjiang Province, from his October 2023…