Activist Ni Yulan has been cleared of fraud by a Beijing court, knocking two months off an ongoing 32 month jail sentence imposed in April. Ni’s legal battles against forced demolition led to the destruction of her own...
Read MoreAt The Los Angeles Times, Rosanna Xia interviews Melissa Chan, former Beijing correspondent for Al Jazeera English, who last week became the first accredited journalist since 1998 to be expelled from China. “A lot of journalists...
Read MoreNi Yulan, who has been stripped of her lawyer’s license, beaten until she could no longer walk unaided, and repeatedly imprisoned for defending the rights of forced demolition victims, has received a further prison...
Read MoreThe National People’s Congress has passed a controversial amendment to China’s Criminal Procedure Law which will, if faithfully implemented, strengthen suspects’ rights in ordinary—i.e. non-political—cases. But...
Read MoreTsering Woeser, a prominent Tibetan blogger who usually goes by her second name alone, has an essay in Foreign Policy calling on Han Chinese to speak up against the ongoing crackdown in Tibet in which several writers,...
Read MoreHuman Rights In China has published the story of Li Jinping, an ardent supporter of Zhao Ziyang, victim of forced demolition, and former Chaoyang public security officer. Li writes that he was held in a Beijing psychiatric...
Read MoreProposed changes to China’s criminal procedure law would provide extrajudicial detentions with “a thicker veneer of legality”, according to Human Rights Watch: Enforced disappearances by the Chinese...
Read MoreActivist Chen Guangcheng and his family remain under house arrest in southern Shandong province, and a stream of supporters continue efforts to gain access to them. As Chen’s birthday (this Saturday, November 12th)...
Read MoreIn a sign that the concept of “black jails” to hold petitioners in extralegal detention may be losing support among Chinese authorities, the Shanghai Daily is reporting that Beijing police are investigating claims by...
Read MoreHuman Rights Watch’s Phelim Kine examines the record of China’s 2009-2010 National Human Rights Action Plan—which the government boasts was a terrific success, with “all measures … put into practice...
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