Shandong Case Sparks Debate Over Negligence
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate, China’s top prosecutor, over the weekend decided...
Mar 28, 2017
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate, China’s top prosecutor, over the weekend decided...
Aug 22, 2014
The New York Times’ Chris Buckley reports on the acquittal and release of Nian Bin, who was...
Jul 31, 2014
Xinhua reports that police in Kashgar, Xinjiang, have shot dead two and captured a third suspect...
Feb 16, 2014
The BBC reports that authorities have shot eight people who were allegedly “trying to attack...
Oct 8, 2013
The BBC reports that Chinese police have confirmed that three Tibetan men confessed to stabbing to...
Aug 20, 2013
Wang Xuemei, China’s leading forensic scientist who published a blog post dismissing the...
Aug 16, 2013
A Sichuan court sentenced 32-year-old Drolma Gya to death and deprivation of political rights on...
Aug 16, 2013
At the Paris Review, Molly Crabapple and British author Warren Ellis discuss how the...
Aug 9, 2013
China has urged the Afghan government to protect Chinese citizens after three were found dead in a...
Jul 9, 2013
At The Atlantic, Jiabao Du explains how a rape and murder trial in Hebei shows a deep lack of faith in China’s courts following a string of high-profile wrongful convictions. Wang Shujin was sentenced to death in 2007 for...
Mar 1, 2013
Drug lord Naw Kham and three other foreigners were executed in Kunming on Friday for the 2011 killings of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River. State broadcaster CCTV aired the prisoners’ final hours, together with...
Dec 14, 2012
Among the stories being revisited in Chongqing following Bo Xilai’s fall from power is that of Beijing lawyer Li Zhuang, imprisoned after his own clients were coerced into falsely accusing him. At Economic Observer, Li...
Sep 28, 2012
This week, senior forensic scientist Wang Xuemei published a blog post challenging the official explanation for the death of British businessman Neil Heywood. Gu Kailai, whose husband Bo Xilai will now face charges related to...
Aug 20, 2012
Gu Kailai, wife of deposed Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai, and family aide Zhang Xiaojun were declared guilty on Monday of the intentional homicide of British businessman Neil Heywood. Zhang was sentenced to nine years for his...
Aug 17, 2012
The verdict in Gu Kailai’s trial for the murder of Neil Heywood is to be announced on Monday, according to Reuters: “The verdicts for Gu Kailai and Zhang Xiaojun will be announced at 9 a.m. on Monday,” an...
May 22, 2012
Two men have been charged with the recent murders of two Chinese students in Los Angeles, and could face the death penalty. The case stirred up resentment of China’s growing income inequality when early reports falsely...
Dec 12, 2011
Economic Observer reports that six men have turned themselves in to Qinghai police over the past month in connection with the 1994 murder of a well-known protector of the Tibetan antelope. Three other suspects remain at large....
Jul 28, 2010
When details of coal mine murder-extortion plots in Beijing began to surface, some cinema fans noted the murders’ striking similarity to those in the 2003 film Blind Shaft. But as a Caixin article reveals, sometimes the...