From Telegraph: The UK-China Human Rights Dialogue is jointly organised by the Foreign Office and the Chinese Foreign Affairs ministry and has been running since 1997. The meetings, which take place twice a year, are a key part...
Newsweek explores why China was willing to ignore international condemnation in the recent execution of British man Akmail Shaikh and the arrest of dissident Liu Xiaobo: Pundits have missed a key point: an increasingly confident...
Written by Edward McMillan-Scott, vice-president of the European Parliament, with responsibility for democracy and human rights, from The Independent: The new year must see an end to ruthless regimes using human pawns in...
Written by Professor Jerome A. Cohen, co-director of the NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute and adjunct senior fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, from CNN: Two major criminal cases in one week...
British citizen Akmal Shaikh was executed by Chinese authorities yesterday for smuggling heroin. As reported earlier on CDT, the case was regarded as controversial given Shaikh’s family’s claims that he had a mental...
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