Online censorship has again inspired netizens to stage a collective act of digital disobedience. In this case, a young policewoman was sentenced to over a decade in prison after her former “lovers,” a clique of powerful county...
On Monday, China Law Translate highlighted a public notice from county-level public security...
Cartoonist Rebel Pepper comments on the recent exoneration of Nie Shubin, who was convicted and...
In 2013, as North Gaoying Village, Shijiazhuang, Hubei resident Jia Jinglong was anticipating his...
A series of high-profile overturned convictions—some posthumous—has provoked public outrage in...
When Finance Minister Lou Jiwei criticized China’s Labor Contract Law for protecting workers too...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
South China Morning Post’s Jun Mai reports the acquittal of accused murderer Chen Man after 21...
In 1996, 18-year-old Huugjilt, known as Hu Ge in Mandarin, was found guilty by the Inner Mongolia...
At People’s Daily Online, Luxiao Zou reports anger over the promotion of two judges who...
In a commentary translated at Dui Hua Human Rights Journal, The Beijing News’ Zhu Changjun...
A Fujian court has awarded $186,000 compensation to former death row prisoner Nian Bin for the...
South China Morning Post’s Li Jing and Teddy Ng report on newly announced measures to...
South China Morning Post’s Mandy Zuo reports on comments by China’s top prosecutor Cao...
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...
The arrest of Chinese-American geologist Xue Feng on charges of violating state secrets has been a thorny issue for US-China relations ever since his arrest and imprisonment three years ago. Recently, the Chinese courts have...
According to a Xinhua report, the compensation rate for wrongful imprisonment will increase: China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) Friday ordered prosecutors to compensate victims of wrongful imprisonment at a...
From Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): The total number of criminal cases handled by local courts and the number of convicts sentenced last year were, respectively 684,000 and 845,000, up 6.2% and 10% respectively over 2004, according to Xiao Yang, president of China’s Supreme People’s Court. Xiao indicated that the public […]
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