State Council Expands State Security Agents’ Powers
China’s State Council this week released new definitions of conduct punishable under the...
Dec 8, 2017
China’s State Council this week released new definitions of conduct punishable under the...
Aug 31, 2017
In late 2015, veteran journalist Gao Yu was granted a sentence reduction and medical release from...
May 4, 2017
In an essay shared on WeChat last month, investigative journalist Jiang Xue (江雪) commented on the increasingly tight restrictions on speech amid continuing security and ideological crackdowns by the Xi administration. The essay...
Apr 22, 2016
The recent announcement of veteran tech executive Kathy Chen’s new position as...
Nov 2, 2015
On the first birthday of China’s counterespionage law on Sunday, after a series of arrests...
Jun 23, 2014
Last week, the shroud of silence around the case of detained Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti sparked...
Mar 13, 2014
At China Real Time, Josh Chin reports a 40% drop in the use of state security charges like...
Feb 21, 2014
The investigation into allies and associates of Zhou Yongkang has expanded into the previously...
Nov 22, 2013
In a Xi Jinping “First Year Top Ten” list following the Communist Party’s Third...
Nov 12, 2013
The highly-anticipated Third Plenum meeting of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central...
Dec 13, 2012
Tencent’s widely used instant-chatting mobile app WeChat has, as previously reported, been accused of putting Chinese dissidents at risk by revealing user data to the government. From Nicola Davison at the Guardian: WeChat...
Dec 3, 2012
Aside from the privileges they enjoy as a result of their political and business connections, Chinese “princelings” may also be well immune to the pervasive state security apparatus. John Garnaut tells a story of how...
Jun 1, 2012
Reuters reports the arrest earlier this year of an aide in China’s State Security Ministry, who allegedly received hundreds of thousands of dollars to spy for the US. The official, an aide to a vice minister in China’s...
Mar 13, 2012
Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan, who last week encountered plainclothes state security police when attempting to interview a high-profile lawyer about proposed changes to China’s Criminal Procedure Law, follows a mother to...
Mar 9, 2012
As the National People’s Congress holds its annual session, Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan went to the offices of lawyer Pu Zhiqiang to interview him about proposed changes to the Criminal Procedure Law. At the office,...
Jul 15, 2011
Fast Company talks to Adam Segal of the Council on Foreign Relations about state-sponsored and “patriotic” hacking, cyberespionage and cybersecurity in China. FAST COMPANY: Could you give a short rundown of...
Jul 30, 2010
The New York Times reports on the sentencing of three Uighur webmasters: Three men accused of “endangering state security” for their role in maintaining popular Uighur-language Web sites have been sentenced to prison terms of 3...
Jan 5, 2009
The International Herald Tribune has more on reports that the number of arrests for state security crimes in Xinjiang made a large jump last year: The official newspaper, the Procuratorial Daily, which is published by the...