Wang Zhicheng

Arrested last year for carrying banners demanding Chinese Communist Party leaders disclose their wealth, they are part of the New Citizens Movement, which includes members from Falun Gong and Protestant Christians. Beijing fears the growing convergence of civil society activism and religious groups.

Since April, the authorities have been carrying out arrests , kidnappings , interrogations in the municipalities of Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and the provinces of Guangdong, Guizhou, Henan, Shaanxi , Shandong and Zhejiang. Some of those arrested were mistreated and beaten. Denied a lawyer and forbidden medical care.

Tang had defended villagers and others against corrupt leaders who had seized their land. For this, his licence to practice law was not renewed. As a defender of religious freedom, he has accused Xi Jinping's administration of cracking down on anything that looks like a challenge to the power of the Party. Other activists and a former soldier in Tiananmen Square are also detained.

China's state television shows the "confessions" of the two journalists. Xiang is accused of "provoking trouble" with his news. Gao was charged with leaking "state secrets." Analysts and colleagues appreciate instead their professionalism. In recent weeks, academics and activists have been arrested, leading some to call for changes to the law on "state secrets", and blame the country's Communist and imperial legacy.

The four people held are accused of "sowing disorder". Many other participants in the seminar were detained for questioning by the police . The Tiananmen massacre has led to an intensification of today’s social ills: corruption, injustice, abuse of power. Chinese Communist Party’s invitation to seek and state the truth . For June 4, Hu Jia calls for people to dress in mourning. Journalist Gao Yu has also disappeared.

Academics want consultative body to play a greater role. Since Mao's reign, the former has been only a useless "decoration". Bishops who sit in the conference have always failed to guarantee Catholic communities a modicum of freedom, or get the release of jailed fellow bishops. Some propose to cut the number of delegates.

Online, some Chinese are hailing the victims of the "Ukrainian Tiananmen" and Ukrainians' quest for freedom. If "The Ukrainians are free, how long will we Chinese have to wait?" some wonder. If Ukraine joins the EU, it will have to abide by its arms embargo against China. As the new interim government gets the green light in Kiev, tensions rise in the Crimea, where an armed group seizes the regional parliament, hoisting the Russian flag. Putin orders military exercises on the border.

Bloggers react to China's new national defence tool with a heavy dose of irony. Every year, China reports 1.2 million premature deaths due to pollution. Yesterday, pollution levels in Beijing were eight times higher than normal. For some people, it is "airpocalypse" now.

Every year in China at least 10 thousand infants are abandoned. Because of the one-child policy, many of them are girls, but there are also many babies with disabilities or serious illnesses. 60 million births that are not legally registered.

Officially, they are in jail for illegal gathering (to study the Bible). Several of them are dissidents who converted to Christianity. Some of them also support Xu Zhiyong, a leader of the New Citizens movement, a group that calls for respect for the constitution and transparency with regards to the assets owned by Communist Party leaders. Xu Yonghai, head of the Holy Love Fellowship, converted at the time of the Tiananmen movement.

For legal experts , the trial against the dissident is a betrayal of all of Xi Jinping’s sermons on reforms and the fight against corruption. Hu Jia, Xu supporter, was seized by the police. Xu was "too" popular: he had defended the parents of children involved in the poisoned milk scandal and demanded migrant children’s rights to go to school and in university

The founder of the Southern Street battles press censorship and for the disclosure of the leaderships’ assets. Wang Gongquan, a wealthy businessman and friend of dissidents has confessed “crimes" against public order. It is suspected that he was tortured. Messages of sympathy for those arrested posted online . Campaign to send greeting cards for Chinese New Year to the Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo.