Lawyer Jiang Tianyong Disappears Upon Release
Lawyer Jiang Tianyong has disappeared into apparent police custody after being released upon the...
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Lawyer Wang Quanzhang Tried in Closed Hearing
Rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was put on trial in Tianjin on subversion charges Wednesday, after...
Michael Kovrig Denied Access to Lawyers
Bloomberg is reporting that Canadian Michael Kovrig, who was detained in Beijing on suspicion of...
Canadians Held Over “Danger to National Security”
On Wednesday, Chinese authorities confirmed that they had detained Canadian Michael Spavor on...
Family Members Detail Abuse of Detained Rights Lawyers
Following the sweeping “709” crackdown on dozens of rights lawyers and activists in...
Canada to Discuss Long-sought Extradition Deal
Last week, China released Canadian missionary Kevin Garratt, who had been detained on suspicion of...
Pu Zhiqiang Given 3-Year Suspended Sentence
Official media announced today that prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has been found guilty of...
What Happened to the Detained Lawyers?
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) provides an update on the status of several of the lawyers...
China Defends Prolonged Detention of Pu Zhiqiang
Civil rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang was detained in May 2014 after attending a gathering to mark the...
Gao Yu Files Appeal Against Seven-Year Sentence
Journalist Gao Yu has filed an appeal against her seven-year sentence for leaking state secrets,...
Civil Society Groups Treated as “Criminals” [Updated]
The five feminist activists who were held for five weeks in detention have been released under...
Lawyer: “The Five Women Are Being Held Illegally”
The monthlong detention of five women activists in Beijing is illegal as authorities have not...
A Rare Criminal Case in Which Evidence Made a Difference
China’s top prosecutor Cao Jianming recently spoke out against wrongful convictions and the use of...
A Preliminary Take on the Peter Humphrey Case
On his Chinese Law Prof blog, Donald Clarke provides a detailed analysis of the transcript of the...
Failure to End Labor Camps Shows Limits of Xi’s Power
Despite talks to abolish China’s re-education through labor or laojiao system, Xi...
What will Replace Re-education Through Labor?
As the Chinese government moves ahead with plans to abolish the reeducation through labor system...
TV Confessions an Unsettling New Trend for Executives
A recent trend of confessions by foreign and local business executives on state television has...
Daughter Not Notified Of Father’s Execution
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...
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