Having “ulterior motives” (别有用心, bié yǒu yòng xīn), an accusation often lobbed at critics of the Party-state, is sometimes deployed in tandem with the term “foreign hostile forces” (境外势力, jìngwài shìli). Such...
A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who was jailed following his advocacy for human rights and the rule of law has been named a finalist for a prominent human rights award, the same week that reports emerged of his poor...
The Chinese government has moved to strip two human rights lawyers of their licenses to practice, following their involvement in legal cases against citizen journalist Zhang Zhan and the 12 Hong Kong activists caught fleeing the...
PEN America reported on Monday that rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong has been formally arrested for inciting subversion, four months after he was found and detained after going into hiding amid a round-up of activists on December 26....
Rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was reunited with his family in Beijing on Monday, almost five years after his detention following the 2015 “Black Friday” or “709” crackdown, and more than two weeks after...
Rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was released from prison in Shandong on Sunday, but is still being kept under closely guarded isolation. Authorities have presented this as a standard measure against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,...
Guangzhou hosted 800 legal professionals from 57 countries at the Global Lawyers Forum this week. The event partly coincided with International Human Rights Day on Tuesday, which the E.U. delegation to China marked by...
The wife of jailed human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang visited her husband for the second time at...
This week marks the four year anniversary of the 709 “Black Friday” crackdown on human...
Li Wenzu, the wife of jailed human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, has described her husband as a...
Human rights lawyer Chen Jiangang was barred from leaving China on Monday while attempting to...
Late last month, rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong went missing after his release from prison, where he...
Lawyer Jiang Tianyong has disappeared into apparent police custody after being released upon the...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was put on trial in Tianjin on subversion charges Wednesday, after...
Monday was the third anniversary of the beginning of the "709" or "Black Friday...
The past five years have seen growing alarm at the use of televised confessions, particularly in...
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