Friday, March 11, 2016

Access to Justice (司法公正)

14部新法将于今年制定 (14 new laws to be drafted in 2016)
Legal Daily, March 10, 2016
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20160310/Articel01004GN.htm

行政强制措施存在滥用代罚问题, 杨克勤代表建议立法授权检察机关进行监督 (Administrative coercive measures being misused as punishment, NPC delegate Yang Keqin suggests authorizing procuratorial supervision by law)
Legal Daily, March 11, 2016
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20160310/Articel02005GN.htm

山东:法援之光照向更多特困群体 (Shandong: Shining the light of legal aid on even more especially impoverished groups)
Legal Daily, March 10, 2016
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20160310/Articel02009GN.htm

Related:
北京:困难群体法援绿色通道通畅 (Beijing: legal aid fast lane for disadvantaged groups flows smoothly)
Legal Daily, March 10, 2016
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20160310/Articel02008GN.htm

Chinese crackdown on lawyers and activists is criticized at U.N.
The New York Times, March 11, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/world/asia/un-panel-condemns-chinese-crackdown-on-lawyers-and-activists.html

Related:
Item 2: Joint Statement—Human Rights Situation in China
Mission of the U.S. to the U.N. in Geneva, March 10, 2016
https://geneva.usmission.gov/2016/03/10/item-2-joint-statement-human-rights-situation-in-china/

China accuses U.S. of rape and murder after criticism of human rights record
The Guardian, March 10, 2016
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/10/china-attacks-us-hypocrisy-un-human-rights-council