China Set to Reduce Scope of Death Penalty
The AP reports that China’s National People’s Congress is likely to roll back the...
Tang Hui
Minitrue: Review of Death Penalty for Two Convicts
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Rights Lawyer Pu Zhiqiang Arrested
Beijing police formally arrested prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang on Friday, on suspicion of...
“Petitioning Mother” Tang Hui Takes Campaign to Beijing
Following a court judgment on Monday awarding damages for her wrongful incarceration in a re-education through labor camp, “petitioning mother” Tang Hui has traveled to Beijing to pursue compensation for her...
Tang Hui, Rape Victim’s Mother, Wins Compensation
Tang Hui won a court appeal on Monday in the latest chapter of a saga that began in 2006, with the kidnapping, rape and beating of her then 11-year-old daughter. Two men were subsequently sentenced to death, four to life in...
Rape Cases Reveal Institutional Problems
At South China Morning Post last week, Wu Nan spoke to Tang Hui, who continues to campaign for the execution of men who kidnapped and raped her daughter. Tang was recently denied compensation for an 18-month reeducation through...
Xinhua: China to Reform Labor Re-Education System
The Chinese government will pursue reforms to its Re-education Through Labor (RTL) system, according to a report in Xinhua News which followed a national political and legal work conference in Beijing on Monday. From the...
On Re-Education, Netizens Flex Muscles
With netizens up in arms about the China’s re-education system after the mother of a rape victim in Hunan Province was sentenced to 18 months of hard labor, Bloomberg’s Adam Minter ponders the impact of public...
Rape Victim’s Mother Free After Online Protest
Tang Hui, mother of an 11-year-old who was kidnapped and forced into prostitution in 2006, petitioned and publicly expressed her disapproval of how the courts dealt with her daughter’s tormenters. AP reports: Ms. Tang’s...
Sensitive Words: Intranets, Prostitution and More
As of August 8, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Netizen Voices: Abolish Labor Re-education
The mother of a rape victim in Hunan Province has been sent to a re-education through labor camp...
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