Category: English
English-language publications of the Free China Movement.
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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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Press Release: Free China Movement Calls for Disclosure of Li Kangmeng’s Status Nearly Four Years After White Paper Protests
FCM calls for disclosure, due process and independent verification of Li Kangmeng’s current status.
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When Criticism Becomes Criminal Evidence: Yin Jiangen Appeal Court Delays Ruling After Acquittal Plea
Citizen journalist Yin Jiangen remains imprisoned after an appeal hearing in which his lawyer argued for acquittal. The court called the case major and complex and did not announce a ruling.
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Press Release: Free China Movement Calls for Yin Jiangen’s Conviction to Be Overturned and for His Immediate Release
FCM calls on the appellate court to overturn Yin Jiangen’s conviction and urges his immediate and unconditional release, arguing that peaceful criticism and public-interest reporting must not be criminalized.
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Free China Movement Demands Immediate Disclosure of Gao Zhisheng’s Whereabouts and Condition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — September 12, 2026 Free China Movement demands that the Mainland Chinese Communist Government immediately provide verifiable information concerning human-rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s whereabouts, physical condition and legal status. More than nine years have passed…
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3,318 Days Disappeared: Gao Zhisheng’s Whereabouts Remain Unknown More Than Nine Years After He Vanished
September 12, 2026 — Chinese human-rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has now been missing for more than nine years, with his whereabouts and condition still unknown. A rights-monitoring account circulating this week marked 3,318 days since his disappearance. Gao…
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Twenty Years for Jimmy Lai: Prison Record Puts Hong Kong’s Harshest National Security Sentence in Human Terms
Hong Kong Freedom Petition: Keep China’s Promise to Hong Kong — sign and share → HONG KONG, September 12, 2026 — Seven months after Hong Kong’s High Court sentenced publisher Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison, renewed…
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Less Than Three Weeks After Release, Lu Huihuang Reportedly Detained a Day After Accessing Uncensored Internet
Chinese rights defender Lu Huihuang was reportedly detained on September 5, one day after accessing the uncensored Internet at a friend’s home to seek help, less than three weeks after completing a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence.
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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…