Security Officials Targeted in Call for U.S. Sanctions
On December 23, outgoing U.S. president Barack Obama signed the Global Magnitsky Human Rights...
Chen Guangcheng
Liu Xiaobo’s Death and Western Rights Advocacy
The news of imprisoned Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo’s late-stage liver cancer last month...
Jailed Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo “Close to Death”
Warnings emerged on Thursday that Chinese democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu...
Rights Lawyer Xie Yang’s Trial Postponed
Rights lawyer Xie Yang, one of the few still awaiting trial after the 2015 “Black Friday” or “709”...
Supporters Issue Statement After Lawyer Disappears
Last week, rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong went missing after traveling to Changsha to assist the...
Public Confessions Part of a “Divide & Conquer” Strategy
More than a year after Chinese authorities launched a crackdown on rights lawyers and activists,...
Xi Jinping Visits U.K. (Updating)
Chinese President Xi Jinping makes his first state visit to the United Kingdom this week, with...
A Blind Lawyer vs. Blind Chinese Power
At The New York Review of Books, Evan Osnos discusses “The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind...
Meme of the Week: Batman vs. Military Coat
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Chen Guangcheng, Jerome Cohen Recount Embassy Stay
Chen Guangcheng’s recently-released memoir, “The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s...
Chen Guangcheng Says U.S. Officials “Gave In” to China
Following legal activist Chen Guangcheng’s escape from house arrest and subsequent stay in...
Scholar Who Helped Chen Guangcheng Escape Arrested
After being detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels” in October, scholar Guo...
Scholar Who Helped Chen Guangcheng Escape Detained
Scholar Guo Yushan, who played an instrumental role in helping Chen Guangcheng escape his house...
China Targets Family, Friends to Coerce Activists
The Associated Press’ Didi Tang reports on the pressure applied to friends and families of...
Costs and Consequences of Stability Maintenance
At Foreign Policy, Hu Jia describes his detentions and the house arrests between them, and...
Chen Guangcheng Goes to Washington
NYU law professor Jerome Cohen looks ahead to Chen Guangcheng’s move to Washington after two...
Beijing’s Propaganda Crisis & the Rise of “Self-Media”
At The New York Times, author Murong Xuecun describes the erosion of the government’s former...
Chen Guangcheng: Lost in America
Foreign Policy’s Isaac Stone Fish talks to legal activist Chen Guangcheng about his...
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