Corruption

Draft Defense Statement for the Trial of Zhang Baocheng

This is the draft defense statement by one of Zhang Baocheng’s former lawyers, prepared for the original trial on January 27, 2014. In that trial, in protest of procedural problems, Zhang dismissed his lawyers and forced an adjournment of the trial. (The new trial took place on April 8, and Zhang...

April 16, 2014

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Asset Transparency

Zhang Baocheng

The Light of Justice Shines Forever--A Smiling Zhang Baocheng: Defense Statement for the Trial of Zhang Baocheng

In his defense statement for Zhang Baocheng, lawyer Ge Yongxi argues that the procedural irregularities prove that the trial is nothing but reprisal against a human rights defender. He argues that the evidence, especially video of the peaceful assemblies for which Zhang was indicted, proves that...

April 12, 2014

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Asset Transparency

Zhang Baocheng

“If I lose my freedom”—Xu Zhiyong in My Memory

Editor’s note: Xu Zhiyong , a key advocate of the New Citizens Movement, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment on January 26 for “gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place.” Xu was originally detained in July 2013 after being subjected to four months of house arrest in connection...

February 4, 2014

China Rights Forum

Asset Transparency

Xiao Guozhen

China Must Dispel Mao’s Ghost* (Commentary)

Editor’s note : Gao Wenqian is the author of Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary . The original Chinese version, 《晚年周恩来》 , was published in 2003, and is banned in China. In October 2013, Li Jie ( 李捷 ), Vice Director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the chief official policy think...

January 28, 2014

China Rights Forum

Communist Party Of China

Gao Wenqian

Open Letters by Former Police Officers Urge New CPC Leadership to Combat Corruption, End Persecution of Rights Defenders and Uphold Rule of Law

Following two open letters in August and September 2012 urging the Communist Party of China (CPC) to address corruption in the judicial system and redress the miscarriage of justice in their individual cases, this group of former police officers have issued three additional open letters [insert...

April 19, 2013

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Corruption

Shifang: Citizens Choose Clean Environment over Promise of Jobs

Officials in the ancient town of Shifang, in Sichuan Province, could never have imagined that their launch party would have turned out so badly. But then they only had themselves to blame when they quietly approved a US$1.6 billion molybdenum-copper alloy factory, not thinking it necessary to...

November 30, 2012

China Rights Forum

Environment

The Poverty of China’s Civil Opposition: On the 13th Anniversary of June Fourth

May 14, 2002 [English translation by Human Rights in China]

November 30, 2012

China Rights Forum

Communist Party Of China

Liu Xiaobo

Citizen Activism

For decades, China watchers played down the rise of a viable opposition to the Communist Party, citing the invincible iron hand of the Party and excessive government controls, which made it impossible for citizens to organize.

November 30, 2012

China Rights Forum

Chinese Law

A Book Review by Andrew J. Nathan

November 26, 2012

China Rights Forum

Rights Defense

Liu Xiaobo

Protest at Ministry of Supervision Against Corruption and Human Rights Abuses

[Protest] More than 200 petitioners staged a protest in front of the Ministry of Supervision in Beijing. This account points out that the protest focused not on the individual cases of the petitioners, but on systemic issues including corruption and human rights abuses.

July 17, 2012

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