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