Access to Justice (司法公正)

Police question activists who support jailed dissident's hunger strike
郭飞雄绝食百日 多人网上发声声援
Radio Free Asia, August 17, 2016
EN: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/police-question-activists-who-support-jailed-dissidents-hunger-strike-08172016105815.html
CH: http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf3-08172016104135.html

Related:
New HRIC Translation: Essay by Lawyer Gao Zhisheng on Imprisoned Rights Activist Guo Feixiong
Human Rights in China, August 9, 2016
http://www.hrichina.org/en/press-work/hric-bulletin/new-hric-translation-essay-lawyer-gao-zhisheng-imprisoned-rights-activist

甘肃防雷中心原主任被控贪污326万元 (Former director of Gansu's Lightning Protection Center charged with taking RMB 3.26 million in bribes)
Legal Daily, August 17, 2016
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20160817/Articel08001GN.htm

广西特大跨国贩婴案主犯被执行死刑 (Death penalty for lead organizer of especially large child trafficking case in Guangxi to be carried out)
Legal Daily, August 17, 2016
http://legal.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0817/c42510-28642004.html

Tibetan prisoner released after serving eight-year term
Radio Free Asia, August 17, 2016
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/released-08172016152344.html

Access to Justice (司法公正)

福建刑事速裁程序试点工作成效显著 (Fujian: Good results shown in expedited criminal procedures pilot)
People's Court Daily, July 25, 2016
http://rmfyb.chinacourt.org/paper/html/2016-07/25/content_114457.htm

农妇不堪辱骂棒打丈夫致死 (Rural woman sentenced to 14 years after beating abusive husband to death with stick)
People’s Court Daily, July 26, 2016
http://rmfyb.chinacourt.org/paper/html/2016-07/26/content_114500.htm

新疆立法预防未成年人犯罪, 对重点青少年群体分类施策和重点预防 (Xinjiang legislates to prevent crimes by minors with policies tailored to targeted groups)
Legal Daily, July 27, 2016
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index/content/2016-07/27/content_6737379.htm

Chinese court sentences American publisher to prison
美籍香港媒体人王健民在中国被判监禁
The New York Times, July 27, 2016
EN: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/world/asia/china-hong-kong-magazine-editors.html
CH: http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20160728/china-hong-kong-magazine-editors/

Chinese lawyers group investigates member for questioning Communist Party policy
South China Morning Post, July 28, 2016
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1995730/chinese-lawyers-group-investigates-member-questioning

Access to Justice (司法公正)

Worries flare over Yang Maodong, jailed Chinese dissident on hunger strike
The New York Times, June 16, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/16/world/asia/china-guo-feixiong-hunger-strike.html

Related:
Sister says Guo Feixiong will not stop hunger strike
杨茂平: 郭飞雄会活着走出监狱吗？
Human Rights in China, June 15, 2016
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/en/press-work/case-update/sister-says-guo-feixiong-will-not-stop-hunger-strike
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/chs/xin-wen-gong-zuo/ge-gen-zong/yang-mao-ping-guo-fei-xiong-hui-huo-zhao-zou-chu-jian-yu-ma

2 Chinese activists sentenced to over 10 years on subversion charges
The New York Times, June 17, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/world/asia/china-lu-gengsong-chen-shuqing.html

Court accepts lesbian student’s lawsuit over textbook homophobia
Sixth Tone, June 15, 2016
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/court-accepts-lesbian-student%E2%80%99s-lawsuit-over-textbook-homophobia

China seeks to open judiciary to lawyers and scholars
South China Morning Post, June 16, 2016
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1975937/china-seeks-open-judiciary-lawyers-and-scholars

Lawyer for Hebei man executed in 1995 says rehabilitation could restore confidence in justice system
Hong Kong Free Press, June 16, 2016
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/06/16/lawyer-for-hebei-man-executed-in-1995-says-rehabilitation-could-restore-confidence-in-justice-system/

Access to Justice (司法公正)

China underscores CPC code of conduct in education on law
Xinhua, April 17, 2016
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-04/17/c_135287350.htm

Accessing Chinese criminal law legal developments via Wechat (updated)
Supreme People’s Court Monitor, April 16, 2016
https://supremepeoplescourtmonitor.com/2016/04/16/accessing-chinese-criminal-law-legal-developments-via-wechat/

China sets death penalty threshold in graft cases
Hong Kong Free Press, April 18, 2016
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/04/18/china-sets-death-penalty-threshold-in-graft-cases/

China holds lawyers, threatens activist amid Mongolian pollution protest
Radio Free Asia, April 18, 2016
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-holds-lawyers-04182016111456.html

Are gay rights really making progress in China?
The Diplomat, April 18, 2016
http://thediplomat.com/2016/04/are-gay-rights-really-making-progress-in-china/

怕中国？美国律师协会取消滕彪新书出版 (Fear China? The America Bar Association cancels the publication of Teng Biao’s new book)
Voice of America, April 19, 2016
http://www.voachinese.com/content/voa-news-weishi-conenct-teng-biao-20160418/3290654.html

Citizen Participation (公民参与)

Pastor of China’s largest Protestant church released: Report
The Washington Post, April 7, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pastor-of-chinas-largest-protestant-church-released-report/2016/04/08/892793a2-fd57-11e5-813a-90ab563f0dde_story.html

廣州街頭舉橫額聲援佔中　重囚4年半　律師斥判決損一國兩制 (Guandzhou activists who publicly brandished banner supporting Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement sentenced, the longest for 4.5 years, lawyer condemns the judgement as a breach of One Country Two Systems)
Ming Pao, April 8, 2016
http://news.mingpao.com/ins/instantnews/web_tc/article/20160408/s00004/1460098148701

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Xi Jinping's PLA ambitions: Why Guo Boxiong had to go
The Diplomat, April 7, 2016
http://thediplomat.com/2016/04/xi-jinpings-pla-ambitions-why-guo-boxiong-had-to-go/

China warns sports establishment must root out corruption after sector hit by graft scandals
South China Morning Post, April 8, 2016
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1934595/china-warns-sports-establishment-must-root-out

China’s baby milk powder scandal: watchdog admits endorsing safety of suspect infant formula to “hold back public panic”
South China Morning Post, April 8, 2016
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1934641/chinas-baby-milk-powder-scandal-watchdog-admits

China was largest market for “Panama Papers” law firm: investigation
South China Morning Post, April 7, 2016
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1934168/china-was-largest-market-panama-papers-law-firm

China was largest market for Panama Papers law firm: ICIJ
Hong Kong Free Press, April 7, 2016
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/04/07/pin-to-desktop-x-china-was-largest-market-for-panama-papers-law-firm-icij/

China is still top executioner amid global rise in death penalty
Radio Free Asia, April 7, 2016
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-is-still-top-executioner-amid-global-rise-in-death-penalty-04072016111150.html

Related:
死刑，是打擊犯罪的靈丹？ (Death sentence—is it a magic remedy for combatting crime?)
InMedia HK, April 7, 2016
http://www.inmediahk.net/node/1041672

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Panama Papers reveal offshore secrets of China’s red nobility
The Guardian, April 6, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/06/panama-papers-reveal-offshore-secrets-china-red-nobility-big-business

Related:
Panama Papers tie more of China’s elite to secret accounts
The New York Times, April 7, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/world/asia/china-panama-papers.html

Mayor of major eastern Chinese city placed under investigation for graft month after being named in Hong Kong lawsuit
South China Morning Post, April 6, 2016
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1934006/mayor-major-eastern-chinese-city-placed-under

China pushes Marxism for party members to root out wrongdoing
Reuters, April 6, 2016
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-politics-idUSKCN0X405O

国际特赦：中国或为全球头号刽子手 外交部：无兴趣评论 (Amnesty International alleges China to be the global no.1 executioner, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says there is no interest in commenting)
South China Morning Post, April 7, 2016
http://www.nanzao.com/sc/national/153eea30f81c305/guo-ji-te-she-zhong-guo-huo-wei-quan-qiu-tou-hao-gui-zi-shou-wai-jiao-bu-wu-xing-qu-ping-lun

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Former top military official in China took “huge” bribes, inquiry finds
郭伯雄承认受贿，将被移送审查起诉
The New York Times, April 5, 2016
EN: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/world/asia/guo-boxiong-china-bribery-inquiry.html
CH: http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20160405/cc05guoboxiong/

国际特赦组织：全球死刑数字猛涨　中国“仍属榜首” (Amnesty International: Global executions on the rise, China still “tops the ranking”)
British Broadcasting Corporation, April 6, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2016/04/160406_amnesty_deaths_china

Related:
Death sentences and executions in 2015
Amnesty International, April 6, 2016
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2016/04/death-sentences-executions-2015/

Access to Justice (司法公正)

One for all, and all for one: lawsuit of Chinese wheelchair users banned from flight “is for rights of all mainland’s 85 million disabled”
South China Morning Post, February 4, 2016
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1909277/one-all-and-all-one-lawsuit-chinese-wheelchair-users-banned

China resists harshly punishing those responsible for wrongful convictions
The New York Times, February 4, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/world/asia/china-wrongful-execution-huugjilt.html

Government Accountability (政府问责)

Death sentences surge, even as more countries drop capital punishment
全球死刑判决增加，中国最多
The New York Times, January 6, 2016
EN: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/world/middleeast/fewer-countries-use-death-penalty-but-death-sentences-surge.html
CH: http://cn.nytimes.com/world/20160106/c06death/

Access to Justice (司法公正)

成为笑柄的浦志强案起诉书 (Pu Zhiqiang’s indictment becomes a laughingstock)
[Pages 1-3 contain Pu Zhiqiang’s indictment; pages 4-7 contain Pu’s previous weibo posts compiled by unknown sources. It is unclear whether these pages are part of the official indictment dossier.]
Outside the building (外场楼), May 20, 2015
http://www.letscorp.net/archives/89364

微博成罪证 浦志强被定煽动民族仇恨罪 (Pu Zhiqiang’s weibo posts used as evidence for charge of “inciting ethnic hatred”)
Mingpao, May 16, 2015
http://www.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2015/05/201505160801.shtml

Related:
China releases rights lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang's niece, “on bail”
浦志强外甥女屈振红被取保 民众热议微博屏蔽
Radio Free Asia, May 19, 2015
EN: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-lawyer-05192015133049.html
CH: http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/yf2-05192015103423.html

杨金柱律师因公布“聂树斌案”材料 被律协立案调查 (Lawyer Yang Jinzhu investigated for publishing materials on the Nie Shubin case)
Boxun, May 20, 2015
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2015/05/201505201152.shtml

Related:
Quest for retrial: court holds novel hearing on Nie Shubin case
Duihua, May 19, 2015
http://www.duihuahrjournal.org/2015/05/quest-for-retrial-court-holds-novel.html

Related commentary:
彭劲秀：聂树斌是否遭受刑讯逼供探疑 (Peng Jinxiu: Did Nie Shubin confess under torture?)
21ccom.net, May 15, 2015
http://www.21ccom.net/plus/wapview.php?aid=124729

女民工命丧派出所案民警否认违法 称行为不文明 (Police, denying unlawful conduct, say female migrant worker who died in their custody was “uncivilized”)
China Central Television, May 19, 2015
http://news.ynet.com/3.1/1505/19/10082835.html

Related:
山西太原法院審理周秀雲討薪死亡案 (Taiyuan Court in Shanxi hears case of Zhou Xiuyun, a migrant worker who met an “unnatural death”)
British Broadcasting Corporation, May 18, 2015
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/trad/china/2015/05/150518_china_shanxi_police_trial

Access to Justice (司法公正)

China launches special campaign to rectify miscarriages of justice
Xinhua, April 28, 2015
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-04/28/c_134193259.htm

Related:
Hearing reviews 20-year-old rape and murder case
Xinhua, April 29, 2015
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-04/29/c_134193313.htm

Police in China's Suzhou detain dozens in dawn raid on activists [re. Lin Zhao memorial service]
Radio Free Asia, April 29, 2015
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/suzhou-police-detain-dozens-in-dawn-raid-on-activists-04292015142052.html

See more information on Lin Zhao
http://www.hoover.org/news/letters-and-diaries-chinese-political-activist-lin-zhao-opened-hoover-institution-archives

Death penalty (死刑)

Rise in death sentences worldwide blamed on security crackdowns
The Guardian, April 1, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/01/rise-death-sentences-worldwide-security-amnesty-international-nigeria-egypt

Related:
Report: Death sentences and executions 2014
Amnesty International, March 31, 2015
http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/death-sentences-and-executions-2014

Death penalty (死刑)

China executes three over Kunming station attack
中国对昆明火车站袭击案三罪犯执行死刑
British Broadcasting Corporation, March 24, 2015
EN: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-32029430
CH: http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2015/03/150324_kunming_knife_attackers_executed

Death penalty (死刑)

Doubts over China prisoner organ harvesting ban
Business Insider, March 10, 2015
http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-doubts-over-china-prisoner-organ-harvesting-ban-2015-3

Death penalty (死刑)

中国从1月1日起全面停止死囚器官移植 (China’s ban on organ transplant from death row prisoners effective January 1)
British Broadcasting Corporation, January 3, 2015
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2015/01/150103_china_organ_donation

Death Penalty (死刑)

死刑错案引发对中国司法的质疑 (Misjudged death penalty cases raise questions about China’s judicial system)
Radio France Internationale, December 26, 2014
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/20141226-%E5%8F%B8%E6%B3%95%E9%94%99%E6%A1%88%E5%BC%95%E5%8F%91%E8%B4%A8%E7%96%91

Death penalty (死刑)

内蒙男青年枪决18年后洗刷罪名 (Inner Mongolian court exonerates teenager executed for murder)
The New York Times, December 16, 2014
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20141216/c16teenager/

Death penalty (死刑)

China acquits a teenager of murder—18 years after executing him
Quartz, December 15, 2014
http://qz.com/312390/china-acquits-a-teenager-of-murder-18-years-after-executing-him/

Death penalty (死刑)

Is China rethinking the death penalty?
The Diplomat, November 26, 2014
http://thediplomat.com/2014/11/is-china-rethinking-the-death-penalty/