“I don’t raise pigs” (我不养猪 wǒ bù yǎng zhū), a Hunan police station’s nonsensical comment on the death of a woman in their custody, is the latest incidence of “gobsmacking rhetoric” (léi yǔ 雷语) to go viral. “Gobsmacking rhetoric”...
The past five years have seen growing alarm at the use of televised confessions, particularly in...
Developments in the crackdown on rights lawyers that began with the “Black Friday” or “709” sweep...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
On Sunday, The New York Times published an interview with Peter Dahlin, the Swedish legal NGO head...
Local news assistants provide invaluable but often unsung research, translation, and logistical...
The five feminist activists who spent five weeks in detention on suspicion of “gathering...
Reuters’ Sui-Lee Wee reports that interrogation of arrested rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has...
As Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign continues amid suspicions of ulterior motives, The...
The work of the Party’s Discipline Inspection Commission was highlighted last month by the...
While Chen Guangcheng remains under guard in Beijing’s Chaoyang Hospital, awaiting permission to travel with his family to the United States, a broad range of reprisals have been visited upon his family and supporters...
In two posts at Seeing Red in China, Yaxue Cao presents an overview of over 30 accounts of “tea drinking”—interviews, typically conducted by State Security police or ‘guobao’ 国保—from the Chinese-language...
At Seeing Red in China, Yaxue Cao translates Ge Xun’s account of his recent detention and deportation (Part 2 here). Having travelled to Beijing for his mother’s funeral, Ge was held for 21 hours and violently...
Reports of beating, sleep deprivation and other abuse have emerged from some of those detained in the wake of China’s “Jasmine Revolution”, but the veil of silence over the detentions remains substantially...
Cracks are forming in the uncharacteristic silence Ai Weiwei has maintained since his release in June. The Epoch Times reports Ai’s comments to a reporter for Hong Kong’s Apple Daily, describing his mental state...
A popular saying among Chinese government officials goes: “Fear not the heavens or the earth, but fear the summons of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection’s Anti-Corruption Office.” The Dui Hua...
Despite suggesting that, for the sake of her safety, she would be less outspoken online, Shanghai rights lawyer Li Tiantian has been tweeting at a ferocious rate since her reappearance on May 26th. A number of her posts describe...
Scott Shane at The New York Times reports: The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use...
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