In the span of a week, court cases targeting individuals from a variety of backgrounds have demonstrated the repressive and arbitrary nature of the Chinese judicial system. Journalists, activists, intellectuals, and monks from...
On Monday, several activists wore t-shirts emblazoned with the question “Where Is Peng Shuai?” to a match at Wimbledon in order to raise awareness about the Chinese tennis star. Peng has been absent from international media...
Guangzhou-based labor organizer Zeng Feiyang was detained late last year along with several fellow...
Chen Wenying, the mother of jailed labor activist Zeng Feiyang, is taking the rare action of suing...
Last week, authorities closed the defamation case against journalist Liu Hu, who was detained for...
South China Morning Post’s Jun Mai reports the final collapse of the defamation case against...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Reuters’ Ben Blanchard reports the release of New Express journalist Liu Hu, who was...
Paul Mozur at China Real Time reports restrictions on more than 100,000 Sina Weibo accounts for...
China’s Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued a new...
Southern Metropolis News gives an update on the case against Wu Baoquan, who was sentenced on libel charges after expressing support online for farmers fighting local officials over land rights. ESWN translates: In July, the...
Translated by Joshua Rosenzweig: The public security bureau in Mawei District, Fuzhou, recently detained Guo Baofeng and several other netizens. The lawyer for these detained netizens says that they were detained for posting or...
In the Far Eastern Economic Review, Joshua Rosenzweig of the Duihua Foundation writes about the slew of recent defamation cases against people who criticize local officials: In recent weeks, China has been abuzz with talk about...
In a number of recent cases, local officials have brought defamation or libel charges against citizens who criticized them. In discussing these cases on their blogs and in their writing, Chinese journalists and academics have...
From AFP: Taiwan’s former president Chen Shui-bian on Monday insisted he was not guilty of defamation claims brought against him, as opponents of the pro-independence leader protested outside the courthouse. Chen, who...
On China Media Project, David Bandurski writes about how local county officials use their unrestrained power to bring “defamation” claims against their critics: While counties are beyond the gravitational pull of the center in Beijing, and sufficiently far from provincial centers of power, their leaders have comprehensive sets of public tools at their disposal — […]
The Peering into the Interior blog has translated an article from Southern Metropolis Daily (original Chinese here) “which details how the government went about prosecuting with vigilance three mid-level party cadres who accused the local secretary of “losing the will of the people” after selling land for real estate development when it was was intended […]
Here is the second case reported this week of legal action taken by a journalist in China against a government official or agency. From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A senior Beijing-based journalist has taken the Qitaihe municipal government Office of Law and Order and its director, Liu Mingying, to court in […]
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