Yu Yunfeng

Yu is a pro-democracy activist who was detained multiple times for his anti-CCP content over the years. In November 2022, Yu was detained and charged with "picking quarrels and… More

Sun Lin

Sun Lin was an independent journalist who reported on human rights violations and former editor of Metropolis. He was detained multiple times throughout the years for his criticism of… More

Cao Peizhi

Cao is an activist and founder of Warm House, a WeChat blog group discussing democracy issues in China. In July 2022, Cao was detained on charges of "picking quarrels… More

Xiang Jinfeng

Xiang is a blogger who created a WeChat group where has been posting politically sensitive commentary and expressing concerns about citizens' rights since 2017. In 2019, he was stopped… More

Xie Junbiao

Xie is an activist and blogger from Chengdu. In 2018, he was beaten and detained by police for 10 days on charges of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." He… More

Xu Guang

Xu is a long -time democracy activist who has been arrested multiple times in past years; his latest arrest was on May 26, 2022. After he had been warned… More

Zhang Xiaodong

Online commentator Zhang was arrested by the Chinese authorities and charged with "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" for comments he made on WeChat, Moments, and QQ chat groups. Zhang… More

Zhou Guoqiang Aqu Qiangba

Zhou (pen name Aqu Qiangba) is a poet and editor of Today. He was previously detained for seven months in 1989 for organizing a strike, and sentenced to three… More

Gongan Chen

Gongan is an online commentator with a history of defending democratic rights. He was detained in September 2022 after posting political messages on WeChat as part of a conversation… More

Yu Qian

Pro-democracy activist and online commentator Yu has been the subject of harassment by Chinese authorities including surveillance for years. After tweeting about speaking out on the Tiananmen Square massacre… More