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Hada: “Today is not a day to be happy but to be depressed”

An ethnic Mongolian herder jailed two years ago by Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia has been released from prison to be met by dozens of cheering supporters.

Four herdsmen were arrested on Monday [9 January 2017] for their role in an online petition. Signed by 500 herdsmen, the online appeal claimed unpaid subsidies they had been promised for having stopped grazing on protected land. In response to this, many herdsmen went to protest at the police station and were met with pepper [...]

Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have detained an ethnic Mongolian activist who spoke out in support of his Mongolian herding community near Tongliao city amid a long-running dispute over land.

Mongolian parents from eastern Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s Ulaanhad Municipality (“chifeng shi” in Chinese) have launched a series of protests against the educational authorities for appointing Chinese principals to the only two Mongolian kindergartens allowed to teach in Mongolian. Outraged by the newly appointed Chinese principals’ ban of the Mongolian language in the kindergartens, Mongolian parents [...]

Ethnic Mongolian herders who marched on government offices, camping out in protest at being thrown off their grazing lands, have now been evicted from the premises, as the government banned social media posts relating to the land dispute.

Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have detained eight people in an eviction operation targeting a group of ethnic Mongolian herders and driving them from their summer pastures, activists and local residents said on Wednesday.

Ethnic Mongolian herders in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia on Friday blocked construction traffic en route to a highway project in protest at the use of their grazing lands.

Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have detained 30 people following protests by ethnic minority herders over the loss of their traditional grazing lands.The detentions came after hundreds of residents of Manzutun village, in Ar-Horqin Right Front Banner (in Chinese, aluke’erqinqi), gathered on Thursday in protest at the signing over of their [...]

Chinese authorities are stepping up a crackdown on rights activists and lawyers who are trying to help Inner Mongolian herders embroiled in a bitter protest over the contamination of their grazing lands, sources told RFA.

Chinese police in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have detained an ethnic Mongolian herder who spoke out about pollution from nearby smelting plants that has left local people with higher cancer rates, herders with piles of dead livestock and poisoned the soil and water. Authorities in the region’s Zaruud Banner (Zaluteqi in Chinese) detained [...]

Hundreds of ethnic Mongolians in the northern region of Inner Mongolia are staging protests over pollution from alumina plants near their traditional grazing lands that they say is making their livestock sick, herders told RFA.

On 19 March 2016, six Mongolian herders were jailed by the Public Security Bureau after staging a protest against the illegal occupation of their grazing lands by the Bayanhuaa Industrial Zone , a mining complex whose revenue reaches 2 billion USD. The situation escalated due to the government’s inability to fulfil the herder’s grievances , [...]

Southern Mongolian herders protested on Tuesday in front of local government buildings , claiming the end of the illegal expropriations of their grazing lands, as well as the destruction of these by the miner’s activities. This long term struggle has until now not led to a resolution of the problem by the central government, opening [...]

Ethnic Mongolian herders in northern China are protesting the use of their traditional grazing lands for military weapons testing, as authorities elsewhere in the region detain at least 10 people for giving interviews to overseas media.

Chinese authorities launched a project to demolish houses, fences and other infrastructure belonging to Southern Mongolian herders. The project has commenced since the New Year without any consultation with the community. Without a home, the herders have no way to shelter during the winter. This not only violates their social and economic rights, but also [...]

Ethnic Mongolian dissident Hada began a hunger strike with his family to mark International Human Rights Day in a bid to highlight human rights abuses and ongoing harassment by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, long after his release from two decades in prison.

It has been reported that a number of arrests have now been made in connection with an attack on a police outpost in Inner Mongolia.

The trees died. The wells went dry. Sand dunes blew in and covered once-lush pasture. Watercourses stopped running, lakes shrank. In some places groundwater levels fell up to 100 metres.

On October 15, 2015, Mr. Uiles, son of the Mongolian dissident Mr. Hada, who had been imprisoned for 19 years, was taken away by police in western Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s Bogot City (“Bao Tou Shi” in Chinese) after being beaten bloody. Later on the same day, Uiles was placed under a 10-day detention on a [...]

Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia on Thursday detained the grown son of ethnic Mongolian dissident Hada, who remains under house arrest at an apartment in the regional capital.

Дархад Эрдинбулаг, режиссер из Китая, представил на кинофестивале Меридианы Тихого фильм-экранизацию романа Кафки «Замок». О том, как пришло желание стать режиссером, на чем фильммэйкер хочет сделать акцент в своих картинах, как совместить творчество и выгоду, а также почему все происходящее во Владивостоке кажется сном в эксклюзивном интервью с ИА «Дейта».

Authorities in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) have clashed with hundreds of ethnic Mongolian herders and detained around 20 who petitioned the local government in recent days for assistance amid an ongoing drought in the region, a rights group said Wednesday.

On 22 July 2015, activists from several ethnic minority groups in China sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) urging Beijing’s candidature to host the 2022 Winter Olympics to be vehemently rejected. The open letter, sent by a group of Uyghur, Southern Mongolian and Tibetan activists, reminded the IOC that the Beijing Games [...]

A Briton wrongly detained in Inner Mongolia on suspicion of being a terrorist has criticised authorities for a “serious error of judgment”, which saw the backpackers thrown out of the country.

If modern material comforts are the measure of success, then Gere, a 59-year-old former yak-and-sheep herder in China’s western Qinghai Province, should be a happy man.

Ethnic Mongolian herders in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia have hit out a state-run forestry station for using jeeps to drive them away from local grazing lands.

When the wind blew in their direction, smoke and dust from a huge aluminum smelter would drift across the grasslands where herders had grazed their flocks for generations in China’s Inner Mongolia.

After a three-week standoff, on April 4, 2015, more than 2,000 Chinese riot police have been mobilized to crack down on the villagers of Daachin-tal (“da qin ta la” in Chinese) Township and nearby villages in eastern Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s Naiman Banner (“nai man qi” in Chinese, a banner is equivalent to a county). The [...]

In the 19 years he spent as one of China’s longest-serving political prisoners, Hada says he was beaten, injected with drugs and threatened with death. Authorities wanted him to recant his advocacy for the country’s ethnic Mongolians, whose autonomy and independence he has long sought. He refused.