Security Officials Targeted in Call for U.S. Sanctions
On December 23, outgoing U.S. president Barack Obama signed the Global Magnitsky Human Rights...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 15, 2017
On December 23, outgoing U.S. president Barack Obama signed the Global Magnitsky Human Rights...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 27, 2017
The news of imprisoned Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo’s late-stage liver cancer last month...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 6, 2017
Warnings emerged on Thursday that Chinese democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 25, 2017
Rights lawyer Xie Yang, one of the few still awaiting trial after the 2015 “Black Friday” or “709”...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 29, 2016
Last week, rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong went missing after traveling to Changsha to assist the...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 9, 2016
More than a year after Chinese authorities launched a crackdown on rights lawyers and activists,...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 22, 2015
Chinese President Xi Jinping makes his first state visit to the United Kingdom this week, with...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 22, 2015
At The New York Review of Books, Evan Osnos discusses “The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind...
by Anne Henochowicz | Mar 19, 2015
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 18, 2015
Chen Guangcheng’s recently-released memoir, “The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 25, 2015
Following legal activist Chen Guangcheng’s escape from house arrest and subsequent stay in...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 6, 2015
After being detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels” in October, scholar Guo...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 12, 2014
Scholar Guo Yushan, who played an instrumental role in helping Chen Guangcheng escape his house...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 4, 2014
The Associated Press’ Didi Tang reports on the pressure applied to friends and families of...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 20, 2014
At Foreign Policy, Hu Jia describes his detentions and the house arrests between them, and...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 28, 2014
NYU law professor Jerome Cohen looks ahead to Chen Guangcheng’s move to Washington after two...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 17, 2014
At The New York Times, author Murong Xuecun describes the erosion of the government’s former...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 13, 2014
Foreign Policy’s Isaac Stone Fish talks to legal activist Chen Guangcheng about his...