China’s Top Court Exonerates Man 21 Years After Execution
Case puts spotlight on accusations that judges accept coerced confessions and that police torture is rampant, activists say
With It’s Latest Intervention in Hong Kong, Beijing Wins the Battle but is Losing the War
Cheung: the NPC should be sparing in the use of its power to interpret the Basic Law, or it risks further alienating the city’s young people
China Lags Behind in Rule of Law Ranking
A new global ranking finds China is making limited progress
When China Began Streaming Trials Online
Boot up your laptop or turn on your smartphone and take a peek inside legal proceedings
The Future of China’s Legal System
In early August, Beijing held show trials of four legal activists—a disheartening turn for those optimistic about legal reform in...
Mother’s Fight to Exonerate Executed Son Highlights Gaping Holes in Justice System
More than two decades after a young man in the northern province of Hebei was executed for the alleged rape and murder of a woman, his mother is anxiously awaiting a retrial to clear his name.
Zhang Huanzhi’s only son, Nie...
China’s Communist Party Approves Five-Year Plan
Economists will be watching to see whether it sets ambitious or moderate growth targets.
With Beijing’s Voting Plan Dead, Hong Kong Looks Ahead
The rejection of a Beijing-backed plan to let the public elect Hong Kong’s top officials begs the question of what happens next.
Henry Paulson: ‘Dealing with China’
from Asia BlogSpeaking at Asia Society New York on April 13 with New Yorker correspondent Evan Osnos, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson explained that it’s...
In Sharp Words From Xi, Ominous Implications for China’s Legal Reforms
A Communist saying about the role of law states “the handle of the knife is firmly in the hands of the party and the people.”
Power Shift: Hopeful Signs in China’s Legal Reform Plan
The Central Leading Group for Judicial Reform of the Chinese Communist Party announced the reform measures last month and an overview of a new five-year plan issued by the Supreme People’s Court on Wednesday signals a serious intention to...
Film Director Zhang Yimou Pays 7.5 Million Yuan Fine Over Children
Zhang admits he has two sons and a daughter with his current wife and a daughter with a previous wife.
Chinese Factories Are Ordered to Release Data on Real-Time Emission Levels
In a sign of progress for the environment and information transparency, China's central government in January ordered...
The Trial of the Chinese Dream
Xu Zhiyong tried to change China from the inside, but now he will be tried by the inside.
Chinese Prosecutors File Charges Against Leading Activist Xu Zhiyong
Four days after the U.S. government expressed concern about his...
What Will the Beginning of the End of the One-Child Policy Bring?
Leta Hong Fincher:
The Communist Party’s announcement that it will loosen the one-child policy is, of course, welcome news. Married couples will be allowed to have two children if only one of the spouses is an only child, meaning...
Food Safety Scandals Bring Reality-Check to “Chinese Dream”
from chinadialogueIn the wake of China’s recent food scandal, Chinese premier Li Keqiang has vowed to enforce the toughest food safety regulations.
“We need to crack down on practices that violate laws and regulations with a heavy fist, and make the...
Cleaning Up China’s Secret Police Sleuthing
Wiretapping, email hacking, cell phone tracking, and secret videotaping are just a few of the cloak-and-dagger techniques long employed by police in the course of criminal investigations in China.
But now, for the first time, new rules say...
Police to Stop Camps This Year, Politburo Member Says
The notorious system that lets police send detainees to labor camps without trial will be halted this year, said Meng Jianzhu, secretary of the Central Politics and Law Commission, at a conference on January 7.
Meng said the Communist...
Shutter Labor Camp System for Good, Legal Experts Urge
Legal experts have called on the government to follow through with hints at abolishing the country’s notorious system of labor camps.
On January 7, Politburo member Meng Jianzhu said at a top conference that the system would “cease to be...
Can One Woman’s Case Change a 70-Year Old System of Injustice?
The story of Tang Hui, a mother sentenced to hard labor through the “re-education through labor,” or RTL, program when seeking justice for her raped daughter, may have created new impetus for legislative change. Among the voices urging Tang’s...
China’s Turn Against Law
Chinese authorities are reconsidering legal reforms they enacted in the 1980s and 1990s. These reforms had emphasized law, litigation, and courts as institutions for resolving civil grievances between citizens and administrative grievances...
Capital Punishment in China
from Sinica PodcastCrimes that merit capital punishment in China include treason, murder, corruption, drug-traffiking, and occasionally even wildlife poaching. Yet despite the broad reach of the law here, the true extent of the death penalty in China remains one of...
The Dispute Resolution Process in Relation to Logging Permits in China
This paper focuses on questions related to the granting of logging permits in China. The author finds the current system for the granting of logging permits in China to be lacking. In order to find a solution to this issue, the author reviews...