Zhou Ning, an artist who provided free art classes for disabled children, was put in prison for five years when authorities discovered that he practiced Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese cultivation method based on the principles of "truthfulness, compassion and forbearance." His wife was denied rights to visit him.

In 1997, Zhou Ning and his wife, Xiao Yixia, used their own savings to set up the Truth Art Studio in Jinan city to teach young deaf-mutes sculpture lessons free of charge.

We don’t want to die humiliated, but to live with dignity. Watching the video of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) soldiers shooting at us Tibetans, I have seen all of the CCP’s phoniness, evil, and violence. We Tibetans love peace. We are not animals. Our brothers and sisters die because of torture and injection of unknown drugs. A retired soldier from Henan Province admitted two years ago he slaughtered a Tibetan village.

Chinese authorities will launch new press controls in the coming year to glorify the Communist Party in advance of the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China in October, sources say.
HONG KONG—Chinese authorities will launch new press controls in the coming year to glorify the Communist Party in advance of the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China in October, sources say.

I want to talk about "Charter 08" that everyone was interested in.
Even while I was visiting in Europe, politicians in various countries including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, had already asked me about it. Many politicians have noticed the moderate tone of Charter 08, which was different from the goal of the Chinese opposition to end the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party. Some politicians even were questioning its background.

L’Ufficio 610 e il dipartimento di polizia di Wenling nella provincia di Zhejiang arrestano e detengono di continuo i praticanti Falun Gong, saccheggiano le loro case e interferiscono con le normali vite dei praticanti e dei loro familiari. Tra il maggio e l’ottobre 2008, tredici praticanti sono stati arrestati. Due di loro sono stati mandati nei centri di lavaggio del cervello mentre gli altri sono stati mandati al centro di detenzione.

Il Centro di Detenzione del Distretto di Polizia di Xiaohe a Guiyang, nella provincia di Guizhou, è anche chiamato Centro Rieducativo per Tossicodipendenti. È una struttura costruita di recente che si trova in una valle sperduta circondata dalle montagne. Il centro di detenzione è in realtà una fabbrica in cui si lavora in modo intensivo, con un grosso stabilimento. I prodotti sono per la maggiorparte articoli destinati all'esportazione, come ad esempio bambole. Ho notato che sulle scatole dei prodotti c’erano le scritte “USA”. La fabbrica inoltre lavora cuoio ricavato dalla pelle dei cani.

Reports from Tibet indicate that a number of those arrested after the mass demonstrations against the Chinese occupation of Tibet in March have been beaten to death in prison.
Armed police are currently everywhere in Tibet’s capital Lhasa.
The Chinese regime’s heavy handed response to the protests resulted in large numbers of Tibetans being shot, arrested or simply disappearing.
The news coverage of these events that state-run media broadcast in China amounted to propaganda aimed at turning popular opinion against Tibet and especially the Dalai Lama.

JIANGSU, CHHINA (ANS) – Police, real estate developers, and government officials from Yancheng city, Jiangsu province, together with nearly a thousand unidentified people, forcibly demolished the Chengnan Christian Church of Tinghu District, on the morning of December 17, 2008.
ChinaAid says the destruction of this registered church came less than 24 hours after the church won a court case protecting their building against the same individuals who attacked it.

Il signor Zhao Guoji, 63 anni anni, viveva nella città di Bazhong, provincia di Sichuan. Il 17 marzo 2007 dei funzionari della Divisione per la Sicurezza Nazionale, lo hanno arrestato, portandolo nel centro di detenzione del distretto.
La polizia ha sequestrato il suo computer, la stampante e la fotocopiatrice. È stato interrogato, di tanto in tanto, fino ad agosto, quindi condannato a cinque anni di prigione. È stato portato alla prigione numero 5 della città di Leshan, nella provincia di Sichuan, il 18 ottobre 2007.

Dharamshala, Dec. 26 – Tibetan exile groups launched a signature campaign today in support of "Charter 08", a rare public appeal made by 300 Chinese citizens for human rights, democracy and legal reform in China.

On December 22, President Wu Fan of the China Transitional Government issued a third decree to Mainland military and armed police forces, requesting the Chinese troops, armed police officers, soldiers and policemen to refuse to open fire to suppress commoners, when receiving superior orders or instructions. If the higher level officials order you personally to implement massacre, you have the right to shoot the superior officers.

Dharamsala, December 24: Two Tibetans, including an abbot of a monastery, were arrested by Chinese Public Security Bureau officials in Tibet last month, according to a report published by the Tibet’s Government-in-Exile on its official website on Monday.

According to the report, while an unnamed Tibetan youth was arrested in Lhasa on 20 November for raising slogan of Tibet’s independence, the reason for the arrest of Khenpo Jampa Gyaltsen, abbot of Woeser monastery in Markham County of Chamdo Prefecture in Tibet, from his monastery on 28 November remained unknown.

BEIJING — More than 160 prominent writers, scholars and human rights advocates outside mainland China have signed an open letter to President Hu Jintao asking him to release a well-known intellectual and dissident who was detained this month. The letter was posted on the Internet on Tuesday.

China’s one child policy is now being used as a money-making tool by local Communist officials who impose excessive fines for those who breach the rules. They even force some ‘offenders’ into retirement, according to local residents.
Ms Wang says many Communist officials have more than one child themselves, but will still impose fines on the public if they breach the rules. She says these fines are not reported to senior officers, but are instead kept in the hip pockets of local officials.