According to a recently released report by human rights group Amnesty International, China meted out corporal punishment to 470 prisoners last year, more than any other country in the world. From the BBC: More than 60 crimes can...
Read MoreSupporters of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche protest his execution by Chinese authorities, by Sam Perhson via Flickr.
Read MoreWith debate raging on the Chinese Internet over the country’s relatively enthusiastic use of the death penalty, social news web portal Daqi.com posts a striking series of photos depicting a condemned man’s last...
Read MoreFrom John Kennedy on Global Voices: Was it New Jersey’s undoing of the 1976 reinstatement of capital punishment earlier this month, or the United Nations General Assembly’s call for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty a few days later that launched prominent Chinese bloggers into their own debate on the subject? NetEase has gotten […]
Read MoreThe Dui Hua Foundation has posted a translation of an article from the Beijing News. From Dui Hua’s introduction: The following opinion piece, which appeared on November 21, 2007 in The Beijing News (Êñ∞‰∫¨Êä•, Chinese original in PDF) and was then translated by Dui Hua, raises concerns about the future of China’s Supreme People’s Court. […]
Read MoreChina starts to take action, punitive and preventive, in response to the recent string of food safety scandals. From AP, via the Houston Chronicle: China’s former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday for taking bribes to approve untested medicines, as the country’s main quality control agency announced its first recall system targeting unsafe […]
Read MoreA Chinese company chairman has been sentenced to death for running a scam involving giant ants, via BBC: Wang Zhendong promised investors returns of up to 60% if they put money into the fictitious ant-breeding project, the court heard. Wang, from Liaoning province, raised 3bn yuan ($390m; ¬£200m) in three years, prosecutors said… More than […]
Read MoreFrom The Southern Weekend, via Press Interpreter, translated by Joseph McMullin: “Life is most precious under heaven” The change gives new meaning to the old phrase: “Human life is matter of ‘heavenly’ concern.” Now, the word “heaven” refers to the Supreme Court. „ÄÄ„ÄÄ On December 31st, 2006, chief justices of the Hunan and Sichuan Higher […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: The policemen investigating a murderous assault knew they didn’t have enough evidence against their chief suspect, Li Jiuming, to hold up in court. So they decided to do what police here often do, according to Chinese lawyers: torture a confession out of him. That false confession, presented four years ago […]
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