Lawyer Jiang Tianyong Disappears Upon Release
Lawyer Jiang Tianyong has disappeared into apparent police custody after being released upon the...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 28, 2019
Lawyer Jiang Tianyong has disappeared into apparent police custody after being released upon the...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 26, 2018
Rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was put on trial in Tianjin on subversion charges Wednesday, after...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 21, 2018
Bloomberg is reporting that Canadian Michael Kovrig, who was detained in Beijing on suspicion of...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 14, 2018
On Wednesday, Chinese authorities confirmed that they had detained Canadian Michael Spavor on...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 2, 2017
Following the sweeping “709” crackdown on dozens of rights lawyers and activists in...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 21, 2016
Last week, China released Canadian missionary Kevin Garratt, who had been detained on suspicion of...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 21, 2015
Official media announced today that prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has been found guilty of...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 20, 2015
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) provides an update on the status of several of the lawyers...
by Sophie Beach | May 7, 2015
Civil rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang was detained in May 2014 after attending a gathering to mark the...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 21, 2015
Journalist Gao Yu has filed an appeal against her seven-year sentence for leaking state secrets,...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 14, 2015
The five feminist activists who were held for five weeks in detention have been released under...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 8, 2015
The monthlong detention of five women activists in Beijing is illegal as authorities have not...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 29, 2014
China’s top prosecutor Cao Jianming recently spoke out against wrongful convictions and the use of...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 13, 2014
On his Chinese Law Prof blog, Donald Clarke provides a detailed analysis of the transcript of the...
by Cindy | Nov 7, 2013
Despite talks to abolish China’s re-education through labor or laojiao system, Xi...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 5, 2013
As the Chinese government moves ahead with plans to abolish the reeducation through labor system...
by Cindy | Sep 2, 2013
A recent trend of confessions by foreign and local business executives on state television has...
by Natalie Ornell | Jul 13, 2013
Tea Leaf Nation’s Rachel Lu reports that the Internet is in an “uproar” over yesterday’s execution of “China’s Madoff”, Zeng Chengjie, a once highly regarded rags-to-riches real estate...