Tag: National security

bloggers CCP corruption criminal procedure law criminal rights drinking tea Falun Gong foreign companies foreign investment Guo'an hacking house arrest Hu Jia illegal detentions Internet Internet control jasmine revolution Jerome cohen legal reform legal rights legal system Ran Yunfei six party talks subversion terrorism tweets U.S. trade Uighurs Wen Yunchao Zeng Jinyan

Amended Criminal Procedure Law Passes, 2,639 to 160

The National People’s Congress has passed a controversial amendment to China’s Criminal Procedure Law which will, if faithfully implemented, strengthen suspects’ rights in ordinary—i.e. non-political—cases. But other provisions allow key protections to be discarded in cases relating to terrorism, corruption or “national security”—a term which, in China, can cover activ