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Readers of ESWN may already be familiar with the name Wang Yahui, perhaps the first man ever to have been killed by a glass of water. The story in brief as translated by ESWN:
According to the Lushan county public security bureau, the young man named Wang Yahui was taken away on suspicion of theft on [...]

[Last updated Feb 10 1:03 AM Beijing time]
Note: You can follow up to the minute tweets on Tan Zuoren’s sentencing here, but most of them are in Chinese.
Tan Zuoren, like Ai Weiwei, was conducting a citizen’s investigation into the deaths of students in the Sichuan earthquake last year. On March 28th, he was arrested, supposedly [...]

It is with a heavy heart that I point you in the direction of these stories. Gao Zhisheng, a lawyer who ChinaGeeks contributor Chris Hearne wrote about back in March of 2009, is missing.
Gao, a Nobel Prize nominee, has been in custody since last February, but when his brother asked for information about him in [...]

Westerners worldwide will wake up tomorrow with gifts under their Christmas trees. Liu Xia will wake up tomorrow — for her, December 26th — with the knowledge that Christmas brought her an empty home for the next eleven years.

For some time now, lawyer and blogger Liu Xiaoyuan has been following the case of three netizens (You Jingyou, Fan Yanqiong, and Wu Huaying) accused of framing/falsifying information because they published an article on the internet about the lethal gang rape of Yan Xiaoling. The post attracted widespread interest online and was posted on many [...]

…Now I’m without hope for effective treatment or just compensation, my freedom of movement has been constrained; the situation is that there’s no way for me to leave the county!