Confusion or Conspiracy? U.K. Limits Ai Weiwei Visa
Last week, Chinese authorities finally returned artist Ai Weiwei’s passport, removing a barrier to...
Liu Xiaoyuan
Badiucao (巴丢草): Black Friday Portraits
Badiucao has drawn portraits of eight of the dozens of human rights lawyers and activists who were...
Dozens of Rights Lawyers & Activists Held or Missing
Chinese Human Rights Defenders reports that at least 57 rights lawyers, law firm staff, and...
Police Reforms Aim to Boost Performance & Popularity
South China Morning Post’s Li Jing and Teddy Ng report on newly announced measures to...
Writer Who Published Mao Victims’ Memoirs Charged
Writer Huang Zerong, also known by the pen name Tie Liu, has been officially charged by Chinese...
Ilham Tohti Receives Life Sentence for Separatism
An Urumqi court passed an unexpectedly heavy sentence of life imprisonment for separatism on...
Televised Confessions in China Raise Worries
At the Los Angeles Times, Julie Makinen reports on how the recent trend of televised confessions,...
China Inaugurates Legal Semi-Secret Detention
Zhu Chengzhi may have become the first to be detained under new amendments to China’s Criminal Procedure Law. Amid fierce criticism, the changes passed through the National People’s Congress by a vote of 2,639 to 160...
Bo Xilai Expelled from Party, Will Face Criminal Charges (Updated)
Together with the long-awaited announcement of a start date for the 18th Party Congress, Xinhua revealed on Friday that Bo Xilai has been expelled from the Party and will now face criminal prosecution: Investigations found that...
Inside the Walls of a Detention Center
NYU law professor Jerome Cohen argued last month at the South China Morning Post that “nothing more vividly illustrates” abuse of China’s criminal justice system “than the restrictions imposed on an...
Ai Weiwei Refuses to Live in Fear (Updated)
Writing at The Guardian, Ai Weiwei reflects on his 81-day detention, which ended a year ago today. I often ask myself if I am afraid of being detained again. My inner voice says I am not. I love freedom, like anybody; maybe more...
Pu Zhiqiang on the "Fake Tax Case"
Siweiluozi has translated a catalogue of procedural and other problems in the Fake Cultural Development Limited tax case, written by the company’s legal counsel in the matter, Pu Zhiqiang. His analysis suggests that...
Internet Activist Wang Lihong Tried in Beijing
Wang Lihong went on trial on Friday, accused of creating a disturbance at a protest outside a Fuzhou courthouse last year. The Guardian’s Tania Branigan described the scene outside Wang’s own trial: Representatives...
Ai Weiwei Lawyer Reappears in China
Lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan, who has defended artist Ai Weiwei in the past and said he would defend him in his current case, disappeared in Beijing last week. He has since resurfaced, but is not providing any details about where he was...
Uprooting the ‘Chinese Jasmine Revolution’
The Globe and Mail writes about why Ai Weiwei, the well-connected artist and activist, suddenly found that he was no longer “untouchable” in the current crackdown on dissent in China: A Hong Kong newspaper reported...
Liu Xiaoyuan: “Am I a Master Criminal?”
China Geeks translates a post by lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan about a visit he received from officials after writing about a petitioner who was charged with extortion and blackmail: I said, if the media wants to pay attention and...
Lawyer Liu Must Not Leave – A Letter from the Homeless of Tiananmen
The Beijing-based Yitong law firm has been ordered to closed down for six months, because civil rights lawyer and noted blogger, Liu Xiaoyuan (刘晓原), had petitioned for direct elections of leaders in the Beijing Lawyers...
Law Firm to Be Shut Down
The Beijing-based Yitong law firm will be shut down for six months. Officials have cited that the temporary shut-down is due to the practice of an unlicensed lawyer. Noted blogger and lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan, however, believes that...
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