Monday, March 12, 2018

Access to Justice (司法公正)

China sets up new super agency to fight corruption
South China Morning Post, March 12, 2018
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2136757/china-sets-new-super-agency-fight-corruption

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监察法生效后会否与人民检察院组织法冲突?王胜明回应 (Will the Supervision Law contradict to the Organic Law of the People’s Procuatorates? Internal and Judicial Affairs Committee says the later and Criminal Law will be amended for consistency)
Chinanews.com, March 12, 2018
http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2018/03-12/8465533.shtml

Xi Jinping’s rise from graft-fighting governor to president for life
Agence France-Presse, March 11, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/03/11/xi-jinpings-rise-graft-fighting-governor-president-life/

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“This could destroy China”: Parliament sets Xi Jinping up to rule for life
The Guardian, March 11, 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/11/this-could-destroy-china-parliament-sets-xi-jinping-up-to-rule-for-life/

维权“女侠”吴菊芳被刑拘,南京公安制造冤假错案打脸最高法院 (Rights defender Wu Jufang, previously kidnapped in secret, confirmed of under detention of Nanjing police)
Weiquanwang, March 11, 2018
http://wqw2010.blogspot.hk/2018/03/blog-post_22.html

修宪提案几乎全票通过 两张反对票是遮羞布? (Constitution amendments passed almost unanimously, are the only two nays just cover-up?)
Radio Free Asia, March 11, 2018
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/zhengzhi/hc-03112018141352.html

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胡佳:这个时候要站在最前沿抗争 (Chinese dissent Hu Jia says it is time to fight on the front line)
Voice of America, March 11, 2018
https://www.voachinese.com/a/hujia-interview-20180310/4291511.html

十三届全国人大一次会议举行第二次全体会议 (Heads of Supreme People’s Court, Supreme People’s Procuratorate report to NPC, propose “thoroughly studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought” as 2018 work priority)
National People’s Congress, March 9, 2018
http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/dbdhhy/13_1/2018-03/09/content_2044925.htm