{"id":31283,"date":"2009-01-14T11:59:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T18:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=31283"},"modified":"2009-01-14T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T19:02:10","slug":"more-chinese-are-willing-to-challenge-legal-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/01\/more-chinese-are-willing-to-challenge-legal-system\/","title":{"rendered":"More Chinese Are Willing to Challenge Legal System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calum MacLeod writes on the dissolving trust of the Chinese in their own legal system, and the political repercussions that has carried. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2009-01-13-chinalaw_N.htm\"><\/strong>USA TODAY<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most daring recent action is a document called Charter 08, signed by 300 prominent Chinese citizens in December. It amounts to a manifesto calling for democracy and genuine rule of law to replace China&#8217;s often corrupt, one-party system. The petition is snowballing on the Internet \u2014 it has more than 7,000 signatures \u2014 despite government efforts to censor the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Lan Zhixue and two other lawyers last month also established the Institute of Democratic Society, a non-profit organization whose website proclaims &#8220;fair, reasonable and legal; dare to think, speak and act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t care about ourselves, our liberty or death,&#8221; Lan says. &#8220;We want to do something for the ordinary people. There are more public interest lawyers like us now, though not as many as we would like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another lawyer, Li Fangping, hopes the fear of social unrest will force the government to make changes.<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting court cases about the contaminated blood and tainted formula fuels &#8220;growing distrust of the people&#8217;s court system,&#8221; Li says. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calum MacLeod writes on the dissolving trust of the Chinese in their own legal system, and the political repercussions that has carried. From USA TODAY: The most daring recent action is a document called Charter 08, signed by 300 prominent Chinese citizens in December. 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