Category: China News Updates
Selected and verified China-related news passing the P5 filter.
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Li Wangyang (李旺阳): Labor Activist, Prisoner of Conscience, and the Unresolved Questions Around His Death
Profile and documented timeline of veteran labor activist and prisoner of conscience Li Wangyang, including his 2012 death and the subsequent detention and disappearance of relatives seeking answers.
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Nearly Four Years After China’s White Paper Protests, Fate of Student Li Kangmeng Remains Unknown
Renewed attention to Li Kangmeng highlights a nearly four-year information vacuum after China’s 2022 White Paper protests.
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Rapid Response: Showing a Photograph Is Not Secession — Release Zhang Yi
A photograph is not secession. Peaceful expression is not a national-security crime. Wuhan rights activist Zhang Yi remains detained in Lhasa on suspicion of ‘inciting secession.’ Amnesty International says his detention followed an incident in which he showed…
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Editorial: When a Photograph Becomes ‘Secession,’ the Law Has Lost Proportion
What kind of political system treats the display of a photograph as evidence of secession? The Zhang Yi case forces that question into the open. According to Amnesty International and Chinese rights groups, Zhang was taken into custody…
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Zhang Yi Case Update: Lawyer Meets Detained Wuhan Activist in Lhasa as ‘Inciting Secession’ Investigation Continues
LHASA — September 12, 2026. A lawyer has met detained Wuhan rights activist Zhang Yi at the Lhasa City Detention Center while authorities continue investigating him on suspicion of ‘inciting secession,’ according to a September 11 update circulated…
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Free China Movement (FCM): Do Not Lose Heart — Memory Outlives the Sentence
Rapid Response | September 11, 2026 The families of Hong Kong’s imprisoned Tiananmen vigil leaders answered severe sentences with resolve. Free China Movement stands with them and with everyone who continues to defend the memory of June 4.…
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What the Court Could Not Sentence: Faith in Memory, Conscience and Freedom
Editorial | September 11, 2026 Prison sentences measure punishment. They do not measure belief. That is why the words of the families of Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung matter. After severe sentences were imposed on former leaders of…
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‘Do Not Lose Heart’: Families Answer Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Sentences With Resolve
September 11, 2026 The prison terms made the headlines. The families’ response revealed something deeper: the effort to preserve memory and conviction even when the personal cost is measured in years. Hong Kong sentenced former Hong Kong Alliance…
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Free China Movement (FCM): Conscience Is Not a Crime — Stand With Jing Shuren
FCM stands with Jing Shuren and his family following the reported four-year sentence.
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When Helping a Stranger Becomes Dangerous: Jing Shuren and China’s Surviving Conscience
Jing Shuren’s reported four-year sentence raises a larger question: what happens when a society makes public conscience itself a source of danger?