BEIJING — During her 30-hour train journey to Beijing, Wang Xiulan ducked into bathrooms whenever the conductors checked IDs. Later, as she lay ...

BEIJING -- The Chinese father of a forcibly aborted baby whose case prompted an international outcry has been beaten and forced into hiding, while his...

BEIJING — A Chinese court has sentenced a dissident writer to seven years in prison over a poem he wrote urging his countrymen to gather at a pu...

Very few people know much about Wen Tao or the other writers, lawyers and activists who have been detained in China.

TOKYO — An exiled Uighur activist blamed by China for deadly ethnic riots demanded Wednesday that Beijing allow an international investigation i...

BEIJING — A legal research center in Beijing was shut down Friday and the licenses of more than 50 lawyers – many known for their politica...

URUMQI, China — Police fatally shot two Uighur men Monday and wounded a third in western China, where violence has persisted despite the massive...

MUSLIMS in many nations have condemned China's crackdown in its Xinjiang region where at least 156 people have been killed in unrest over the past wee...