From The Independent, a look at how the retrial in rights activist Chen Guangcheng’s case has encouraged those hoping for legal reform in China:
Chen Guangcheng, the blind “barefoot lawyer” and activist who was jailed in August, had become a byword for the failings of the Chinese justice system – locked up for over four years on trumped-up charges of stopping the traffic during a village protest.
But in a shock turnaround that has sparked hope of meaningful reform of China’s legal system, authorities have overturned a guilty verdict and ordered a retrial in the case, which has become the focus of international and domestic criticism. [Full text]
