The suspicious death of a Beijing tech company manager in Inner Mongolia and recent reporting about the many other deaths of people held in RSDL (“residential surveillance at a designated location”) pending trial has revived...
Two cases of domestic abuse that have gained widespread attention on Chinese social media in recent weeks have renewed the spotlight on China’s crisis of domestic abuse. In October, a young Tibetan woman named Lhamo was...
Three U.N. Special Rapporteurs have added their voices to calls for information on the whereabouts...
When President Xi Jinping met his American counterpart at the G20 summit in Hangzhou this month,...
A series of high-profile overturned convictions—some posthumous—has provoked public outrage in...
On January 5, the Furong district court in Changsha, Hunan accepted Sun Wenlin’s case...
Die Zeit reporter Angela Köckritz writes a detailed account of the detention of her Chinese...
At South China Morning Post, legal scholar Jerome Cohen writes that Beijing’s promises of...
At China Real Time, UC Berkeley law professor Stanley Lubman offers a brief introduction to the...
The New York Times’ Chris Buckley reports that writer and activist Yang Maodong has finally...
In 2003, Zhang Gaoping and his nephew Zhang Hui confessed to the rape and murder of Wang Dong, a 17-year-old girl the two had picked up while passing through Zhejiang province. Both were incarcerated until late last month, when...
Zhu Chengzhi is likely the first person to be held in semi-secret “residential surveillance” since it was legalized under Article 73 of China’s amended Criminal Procedure Law on New Year’s Day. He was...
Zhu Chengzhi may have become the first to be detained under new amendments to China’s Criminal Procedure Law. Amid fierce criticism, the changes passed through the National People’s Congress by a vote of 2,639 to 160...
Song Ze, a volunteer who worked with the dissident rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong’s Open Constitution Initiative to help provide humanitarian aid to petitioners, was detained and later switched to “residential...
New York University law professor Jerome Cohen argues that China’s efforts to build soft power are doomed to failure by its use of the criminal justice system as an instrument of political repression. This tendency seems...
Ni Yulan, who has been stripped of her lawyer’s license, beaten until she could no longer walk unaided, and repeatedly imprisoned for defending the rights of forced demolition victims, has received a further prison...
Below is a snapshot of the online outrage surrounding Article 73 of the new Criminal Procedure...
The National People’s Congress has passed a controversial amendment to China’s Criminal Procedure Law which will, if faithfully implemented, strengthen suspects’ rights in ordinary—i.e. non-political—cases. But...
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