Teachers strike due to super low wages.
In the afternoon of the 24th of December last year, thousands of teachers in Chengcheng County of Shaanxi Province collectively went on strike, demanding the local government to pay their salaries and allowances that had been in arrears since July 2007, as well as the implementation of all teachers’ health insurance.
The teachers were from many [...]
Veteran army cadres dying in clashes with police.
On the 8th of January over a thousand veteran army cadres protested outside the Shaanxi provincial office demanding to speak with Governor Yuan Chunqing. They were intercepted by a large number of armed police and public security. During the conflict, the two sides clashed with many people were injured.
According to a report by Mainland official [...]
Breaking News – Human rights activist Hu Jia under heavy restrictions
Recently, renowned Beijing human rights advocate Hu Jia was transferred to Chaobai Prison in Tianjin. He has since been placed under heavy restrictions, in which four prisoners have been instructed to teach him the prison code. Hu’s mother, wife and daughter had visited him on June fifth. Subsequently Hu wrote separate letters to his parents, [...]
Breaking News – Hong Kong parades for democracy
The July first parade, with pro-democracy Members of Parliament, is calling on the public to take to the streets and express their desires for democracy and freedom.
Breaking News – Yao Jun criticises CCP media use
To receive China’s human rights award, Mr. Yao Jun who travelled to the USA from Mainland China, believes that because of the great impact of New Tang Dynasty TV, the Chinese Communists are now trying to destroy NTDTV at all costs, preventing its broadcast to Mainland China.
Breaking News – Unjustly treated Dalian resident tortured to death
On the morning of May 4th local time, a Dalian petitioner in Liaoning province, Chuo Jia, risked his life to intercept the vehicle of Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, at Dongjiao Minxiang in Beijing. He stopped the premier by putting his petitioning materials in the front of the vehicle. He was subsequently detained in Dongjiao Minxiang [...]
Breaking News – Student attacked for supporting Tibetan cause
According to SOH sources, as a result of sentiments toward the suffering of the Tibetan people, Wang Qianyuan, a Chinese student studying in America’s Duke University, was smeared by Chinese official media as the “ugliest” international student and labelled a traitor by fellow Chinese people after he expressed that Tibetans have the rights to freedom. [...]
Breaking News – Fears of Tibetan-like crackdown in Liaoning as numerous ant breeders are arrested
On March 24, ant breeders in Liaoning Province held a creditors’ meeting but officials pre-empted by holding a number of breeders in local police stations, restricting their movements on March 23. Many breeders have arrived from out of town and sources say the Chinese Communist Party has posted 2 military divisions in Shenyang to prevent [...]
Breaking News – Hefty 5 year sentence handed out to Yang Chunlin
On March 24, land rights appeals representative Yang Chunlin was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment and 2 years deprivation of political rights by the City Intermediate People’s Court in Heilongjiang Province. Yang was found guilty of “inciting the subversion of State Power” after he initiated the movement of “No to Olympics, Yes to Human Rights”. [...]
Breaking News – Bao Dan urges the Two sessions to adopt the “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”
During the recent Two Sessions of the CCP, SOH interviewed Mr Bao Dan, the secretary to the former General Secretary of the CCP Zhao Ziyang. Mr Bao urged the Two Sessions to discuss and adopt the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (UN ICCPR).
