The Foreign Policy blog has compiled what they judge to be the 10 worst laws in China, including Article 105 of the Criminal Law: What it says: Criminalizes “organizing, scheming or acting to subvert the political power of the...
The National People’s Congress passed the much-discussed Emergency Response Law today. From People’s Daily: Chinese officials will soon be legally obliged to provide accurate and timely information on public...
China Media Project gave a overview on citizens’ freedom of expression after China’s new law on management of public security: Since the implementation of China’s Law on Management of Public Security on March 1, 2006, local Chinese law enforcement have, in an increasing number of cases, used the law to target ordinary citizens transmitting information […]
On his Chinese Law and Politics blog, Carl Minzner sums up the revised draft of the Emergency Response Law: The new draft law removes the ban on “independently issuing information” regarding sudden incidents, and replaces it with a ban on the dissemination of “false information” regarding sudden incidents, according to a June 24 Xinhua article. […]
From Yahoo.com: China has backtracked on a decision that could have made it tougher for journalists to report on riots, disasters and other emergencies, state media said Monday. Legislators revised the draft emergency response law after heated debate evolved over a passage warning media of steep fines for “irregular” or “fraudulent” reports, according to the […]
This announcement from the official Xinhua news agency website is very short, and was just posted on netease.com today, translated by CDT: According to a Xinhua report from June 24, 2007, the draft law on responding to sudden incidents was reviewed on June 24 and made clear: No work unit or company or individual is […]
From the Christian Science Monitor: Draconian management of information is a time-honored tradition in China, where the pen has always garnered roughly the same respect as the sword. But China’s leaders have rarely been so open about major media controls – and have never publicly considered writing them into its legal code. “This is definitely […]
From Asia Times: Trying to rein in reporters straining at the leash of censorship, Beijing is drafting a law that will impose heavy fines for unauthorized news of big disasters and social unrest. Wang Yongqing, vice minister of the legislative affairs office of the State Council, insisted the law would improve news by ordering officials […]
From the International Herald Tribune: A Chinese draft law that threatens to fine news media for reporting on “sudden incidents” without permission applies to foreign as well as domestic news organizations, an official involved in preparing the legislation said Monday. The law, now under consideration by the legislature, calls for fines of up to $12,500 […]
From Chinaelections.org: On June 26, the official Xinhua News Agency reported that the draft law on emergency management stipulates that a fine between 50,000 rmb to 100,000 rmb may be imposed on media that breaches government regulations in reporting emergences. On June 29, Kan Ke, a spokesperson of the NPC, told the media the aforementioned […]
From Non-violent Resistance: Three days after the official Xinhua News Agency reported on the Emergency Response Law, Beijing-based Caijing Magazine prints a analysis on its Web site questioning the sanity of that clause and revealing one big secret: someone had “slipped” that clause into the bill at the last moment, and some of the law’s […]
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