Activists have long attempted to use legal systems to seek accountability for Uyghur forced labor and other potential crimes against humanity in Xinjiang. At the international level, China has effectively used its leverage to...
This week, defense lawyer He Zhijuan posted her account of a clash between her and her colleagues and court bailiffs in Guizhou. According to one Weibo comment highlighted by CDT Chinese editors, “The situation in this...
Last week ended with revelations about the mass incarceration of elderly Uyghur women for alleged “crimes” committed decades before their detention. This week began with more news about the weaponization of the Chinese legal...
In the span of a week, court cases targeting individuals from a variety of backgrounds have demonstrated the repressive and arbitrary nature of the Chinese judicial system. Journalists, activists, intellectuals, and monks from...
This week, a striking series of infographics meant to highlight social issues such as poverty, disability, depression, youth unemployment, and elder care were scrubbed from Weibo, leaving only the blank gray boxes that Weibo...
On Wednesday, the two most senior judges of the UK Supreme Court resigned from their overseas positions on Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal, the city’s highest court. The two judges’ resignations further challenge the...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. XX City Bar Association:...
The New York Times’ Chris Buckley reports on a new campaign against corruption and disloyalty in China’s public security machinery: Officials in China’s law-and-order apparatus have been ordered to “drive the blade...
The past five years have seen growing alarm at the use of televised confessions, particularly in...
South China Morning Post’s Nectar Gan reports on Ministry of Justice plans for a new lawyer...
Following condemnation of “Western ‘constitutional democracy,’ ‘separation of powers,’ ‘judicial...
Developments in the crackdown on rights lawyers that began with the “Black Friday” or “709” sweep...
Last week, Beijing prosecutors announced that no charges would be brought against five police...
Cartoonist Rebel Pepper comments on the recent exoneration of Nie Shubin, who was convicted and...
On November 10, the international law enforcement organization Interpol announced the election of...
When Finance Minister Lou Jiwei criticized China’s Labor Contract Law for protecting workers too...
China’s rulers unequivocally see the country’s legal system as an instrument of power. Those...
As American politicians wrestle over Supreme Court nominations following the death of conservative...
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