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When rights activist and former lawyer Jiang Tianyong stood trial for inciting subversion last...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 29, 2017
When rights activist and former lawyer Jiang Tianyong stood trial for inciting subversion last...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 27, 2016
The Guangdong village of Wukan won global fame and some democratic concessions in 2011 when...
by Anne Henochowicz | Sep 23, 2016
Rights defense lawyer Xia Lin has just been dealt a 12-year prison sentence for fraud, seeming...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 22, 2016
A Beijing court has sentenced prominent civil rights lawyer Xia Lin to 12 years in jail for fraud...
by Anne Henochowicz | Aug 12, 2016
Writer-activist Mo Zhixu last contributed to the website of the Hong Kong paper Oriental Daily...
by Sophie Beach | May 11, 2016
Last summer, the Chinese government launched a major crackdown on human rights lawyers and...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 18, 2016
Human rights lawyer and activist Teng Biao, living in the U.S. since 2014 as the situation for...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 22, 2015
The following Internet commentary instructions, issued to the media by government authorities,...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 21, 2015
Following his trial on December 14, rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang was given a three-year suspended...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 21, 2015
Official media announced today that prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has been found guilty of...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 16, 2015
As aggressive security actions unfolded outside the courthouse during the trial of rights lawyer...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 16, 2015
Reporting on Monday’s trial of leading rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, The New York Times’ Edward Wong...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 16, 2015
Leading rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang stood trial in Beijing on Monday, charged with inciting ethnic...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 14, 2015
After 19 months of detention, the trial of rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang on Monday lasted three hours....
by Samuel Wade | Dec 11, 2015
More than a year and a half after prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang’s detention ahead of...
by Anne Henochowicz | Dec 10, 2015
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 31, 2015
China ranked last among the countries included in Freedom House’s 2015 Freedom on the Net...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 8, 2015
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...