Tuesday is the ninth anniversary of the 2015 “709” or “Black Friday” crackdown on Chinese rights lawyers. The following account of the episode, its legacy, and the censorship that surrounded it is the...
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...
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...
On May 18, 2023, blogger and activist Wu Gan was released from prison after serving an eight-year sentence for “subversion of state power.” Active in rights defense cases since 2009, Wu Gan (whose screen name was “Super Vulgar...
There have been renewed calls for the release of journalist and feminist activist Huang Xueqin and labor-rights activist Wang Jianbing, who have now spent over 500 days in detention without trial. Since being detained in...
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of New Zealand ruled in a 3-2 decision to allow the extradition of a murder suspect to China at the request of Chinese authorities. The ruling sets what critics have described as a dangerous...
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...
On May 21, authorities abruptly postponed the second hearing of Zhou Xiaoxuan’s landmark #MeToo case. “We were so shocked. We were already near the courthouse when we received the notice,” Zhou told the South China Morning Post....
A Chinese student’s fatal fall from a building on Sunday has triggered a public uproar in China, as thousands took to social media to demand a transparent investigation into the boy’s death. Chengdu police had...
Despite resistance from authorities, China’s #MeToo movement is making progress with small but meaningful victories in court for individuals fighting sexual harassment and assault. The Guardian’s Lily Kuo reports on the...
In late July, as the #MeToo movement was gaining momentum in China after a slow start, a woman...
Prominent legal scholar and public intellectual He Weifang has been forced into silence after...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate, China’s top prosecutor, over the weekend decided...
Last week, China released Canadian missionary Kevin Garratt, who had been detained on suspicion of...
A series of high-profile overturned convictions—some posthumous—has provoked public outrage in...
In a wide-ranging essay in the London Review of Books, Chaohua Wang looks at the current state of...
While she writes in an autobiographical essay that she was born in 1972 in Hunan as a...
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