Report Details China’s Televised Confessions
The past five years have seen growing alarm at the use of televised confessions, particularly in...
Apr 13, 2018
The past five years have seen growing alarm at the use of televised confessions, particularly in...
Jan 29, 2017
Developments in the crackdown on rights lawyers that began with the “Black Friday” or “709” sweep...
Dec 22, 2016
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Jul 14, 2016
On Sunday, The New York Times published an interview with Peter Dahlin, the Swedish legal NGO head...
Aug 11, 2015
Local news assistants provide invaluable but often unsung research, translation, and logistical...
Apr 22, 2015
The five feminist activists who spent five weeks in detention on suspicion of “gathering...
Aug 20, 2014
Reuters’ Sui-Lee Wee reports that interrogation of arrested rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has...
Jul 3, 2014
As Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign continues amid suspicions of ulterior motives, The...
Sep 4, 2013
The work of the Party’s Discipline Inspection Commission was highlighted last month by the...
May 14, 2012
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...
Mar 2, 2012
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...
Feb 9, 2012
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...
Sep 13, 2011
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...
Aug 7, 2011
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...
Jul 6, 2011
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...
May 30, 2011
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...
Jul 3, 2008
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...